PODs of the Thirty Years War XLIII

[Gary Oswald]

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[Redolegna]

His replacement was Gallas,

Scraping the barrel, much?

and indeed, literally in the same sentence:

and Elector Maximilian of Bavaria finally decided that the Imperial Army could no longer protect his lands from the enemy.

 

[Alex Richards]

Scraping the barrel, much?

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm: We can't win, I'm not good enough, the war is over!

Elector Maximilian: No, it's fine we can still hold them off long enough to get a good deal.

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm: I'm resigning my commission, I just can't keep going, I don't want to die pointlessly for a lost cause.

Elector Maximilian: Um, well, maybe your successor...

Gallas: Guten Tag!

Elector Maximilian: Wait for me Leopold!

I'm not sure if it was literally the final straw, but it absolutely can't have helped.