On this day in 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion took place when a force of 1400 Cuban exiles, funded and led by the U.S., landed on the southwest coast of Cuba in a failed attempt at overthrowing the revolutionary Cuban government.
Covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government, the operation took place at the height of the Cold War and its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
The coup attempt came after the Cuban government expropriated property from American capitalists. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower allocated $13.1 million to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 1960 for use against Castro's government. With the aid of Cuban counter-revolutionaries, the CIA proceeded to organize an invasion.
On April 14th, 1961, a squadron of U.S. B-26 bombers camouflaged with Cuban insignias begin a two-day bombing campaign of Cuban airports, destroying a large portion of the Cuban air force.
On the night of April 17th, an invasion force of approximately 1400 Cuban exiles and CIA officers landed on the beach at Playa Girón in the Bay of Pigs. After a few days, the insurgents became overwhelmed by the Cuban army. President Kennedy refused to provide air support for the operation.
The invasion's defeat solidified Castro's role as a national hero and strengthened Cuba-Soviet relations. Several Cuban exiles and two Americans were executed upon capture. Over 1,000 prisoners were exchanged for humanitarian aid from the U.S. government.
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Trying to decide what class to play for my first solo Baldurs Gate 3 run and the paladin oaths all seem too easy to break for completely unintuitive reasons. Like each oath reads like a random comfortable lib's worldview with tenets like "loyalty", "honesty", "The Law(TM)", with the ingame results being completely morally incoherent. If your oath says you have to keep your word, and you lie to and betray an objectively evil person in the game, ayy lmao our oath is broken! The gods hate you now! Deeply unserious Bethesda-ass system
Real DnD: one time I played a guy pretending to be a paladin. I think the secret class was rogue, I had a recurring grifter rogue. Backstory is I bamboozled an actual paladin out of his gear and have been lugging a set of armor around on me so I could manipulate the local religious zealots. Ended out ducking pit from the party to basically do a first crusade and go from town to town preaching my bullshit as a fake paladin. I maxed charisma and other talking stuff and can usually role play my dialogue well enough that the dm would give me a bonus (actually making your speech out loud added to your speech checks, wasn't about acting but word choice and you wouldn't lose anything by not doing the dialogue or doing it bad, you just got a bonus based on how convincing of a case you made verbally) as my peasant army grew it became easier and easier to recruit more. I met up with the party and an arranged point with my hundreds of unwashed peasants full of religious fervor. We then stormed the final keep with an army of like 1000 to do a quest meant for 4. I don't think I fought a single thing for that one. It was like a 6 or so session story. I think the party figured out I was full of shit but also that the schtick was really working for them son they left it alone.
Now this is DnD. Reminds me of my friends gripli alchemist who pulled off a backflip double potion throw one shot of a boss with 3 nat 20s in a row.
Almost any time I play I'm someone that generally avoids combat. Cause no one in their right mind gets into as many fights to the death as dnd parties. So I usually play some kind of person who talks their way through and out of things. I remember there being a rules debate about whether you should tell the DM when you lie to an NPC. Cause the DM ended out working with the false info or intentions I gave his character and it was taken as me lying to the DM and not the character. I think it was just some random asking where we were going and I replied with a lie by default and making a BSing someone roll didn't really happen cause it was done so quick. I'm not gonna tell some stranger I met at a tavern where I'm going. Basically I main a combo of Garak from ds9 and Thief from the incredibly old webcomic 8 Bit Theatre, where instead of a typical fantasy thief he was more of a white collar criminal.
This is kind of spoilers, but if it helps:
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You can do a quest to get back in the good graces of your god, or embrace the oathbreaker life and get a unique class that way. It's not as lame as just losing all your abilities like in the old games.If paladins didn't have a dogshit Lawful Stupid morality would they even be paladins?