Strength: 3
Type: Siege Unit
Effect Text: This unit can also be played in the Melee row.
Flavor Text: If there must be war, let it be in my day, that my children might have peace.
Flavor Source: Thomas Paine, The Crisis
Artwork: Officers from a Cuirassier Regiment in front of a Country House by Édouard Detaille (1897)
Strategy:
Officers are experienced, battle-hardened warriors with training in multiple disciplines. They give you flexibility in creating adjacency with your other units.
About the card:
Thomas Paine is perhaps the most important writer of the American Revolution, in his pamphlet Common Sense he convinced the American Colonists to go to war for their independence and in his later work, The Crisis, inspired the army's resolve.
"The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
