Too dangerous for me.Then we might as well take down the mountain itself while we're at it!
It's the only way to be sure.
Keep in mind that if Mathilde dies in battle then there's a locked box with worrisome content floating around, with no one more competent than Gustav, a random non-caster priest or, if we're lucky, dwarfs, to know what to do with it.
Well, it IS noted that Mathilde is actually a formally trained professional, while the necromancers aren't.There seems to be a number of problems with wanting to counterspell with Mathilde. The big one being we don't actually know the skill and number of enemy casters but it's presumably better than one journeywoman who's never done counterspelling on enemy combat magic before.
The next really big issue is that we now know the counterspelling is dangerous if the enemy caster is interrupted and considering that presumably everyone will want to shoot at any necromancers in sight means Mathilde is probably going to have it happen at least once. It's probably best to just go after spells that remain in effect and leave counterspelling to the guns.
We should publish a full report to the colleges regarding the wizardry part of this campaign, both good and bad.Now if only the Ameythst battle wizards show up everything would be just fine.
Cover? What cover will artillery have from casters looking down from a castle halfway up a mountain? I mean, if the dwarves snap-build us a covered wooden fortress with ship-style firing ports... but I don't consider that very likely.
Mathilde is a single heavy wounded apprentice burdened by command duty.@BoneyM How badly is Mathilde affected at the moment, by wounds, fatigue etc? How is she feeling, and how does she assess her own ability to counterspell is affected by them?
Cover? What cover will artillery have from casters looking down from a castle halfway up a mountain? I mean, if the dwarves snap-build us a covered wooden fortress with ship-style firing ports... but I don't consider that very likely.
The artillery will be exposed all the time, just like the men.
@BoneyM How badly is Mathilde affected at the moment, by wounds, fatigue etc? How is she feeling, and how does she assess her own ability to counterspell is affected by them?
I mean, the QM said so.2. If the artillery is on counterspell duty, then they can't take cover at sign of enemy spellcasting - they will be preparing to train and fire on any evidence of message regarding where it came from.
I took that to mean the artillerymen and artillerydwarves. The guns themselves might well be the cover they have available.