Remove ads

Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Reader mode
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.

[X] Marksman Codrin Petrescu
[X] Thane Skaroki Grimbrow
[X] Master Engineer Durin Wutokri

[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.

[X] Introduce him to the dwarven smiths so he can try to convince them to teach him.
[X] Help him find a place with the dwarf artillery crews so that he can supplement their abilities in combat.

[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Purchase the title of a Border Princess (300 gc).
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
[X] Do not purchase the strange Lustrian eggs.
[X] Do not purchase the Helldrake scales.
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Have Ulthar handpick his best sharpshooters to be equipped with envenomed bolts.
[X] Master Engineer Durin Wutokri
[X] Marksman Codrin Petrescu
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.

[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Purchase the title of a Border Princess (300gc).

The land could be used for the interests of the college and the Empire.
 
Last edited:
How would this land be useful, the border princes are completely lawless, you can have all the titles in the world but it only matters if you can enforce them. That would require an enormous amount of work for little gain neither we nor the colleges nor the empire need any land in the border princes.
 
So anyone want to write up a negaverse omake of one of our enemies getting a look at the Army's unique character sheets, then they get to Mathilda.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
Last edited:
torroar said:
Er. It's not precisely a full on royalty title. It is property, land. You can call yourself whatever you like in the Border Princes. Her Most Illustrious Queen of Ulgu Mathilde Weber is about as valid as Lord Emperor Baldred the Great of the Kingdom of Bellanoma - both of which could be just, like, tiny villages of 300 people and a single wall and a few farms. The land is the important thing, owning it and maintaining it is entirely another matter. Having land in the Border Princes technically makes you a Border Prince or Princess, but effectively it just means you have land. The deed is, as I read it, acknowledged legitimacy of claim to the land by the dwarfs. They aren't legitimizing a truly royal title, they're giving you land in an area where you're allowed to call yourself whatever you want when you're there. And the legitimate claim to the land is made doubly legitimate by assurance.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Also worth noting, a 'legitimate claim' to land in the Border Princes is generally worth about as much as the paper it's printed on to the locals. There are plenty of quite literal bandit princes.
 
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

There is no reason to buy this title. None. Not for a Grey Wizard. And certainly not for a Noble of Stirland. We already have land and people and enough options to keep us from being bored for years. Not only would it be another time sink, but it's the kind of thing that can get people into big trouble. Specifically geopolitical trouble. For the love of Sigmar can we not!?
 
The purchase I dislike is the Lustrian eggs. If they hatch at all we'll have tiny hatchling dinosaurs no one knows how to properly care for in the middle of an intense military campaign. Wolf is a familiar, we have a good idea how mature he'll be by the time we reach the hold and the training and use of large dogs is a well understood art in the Empire. None of this applies to mystery box lizards which will probably be a useless drain on resources. The hidden roll might have been a 1 after all - pay 200 gp for a liability.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
noliar said:
The purchase I dislike is the Lustrian eggs. If they hatch at all we'll have tiny hatchling dinosaurs no one knows how to properly care for in the middle of an intense military campaign. Wolf is a familiar, we have a good idea how mature he'll be by the time we reach the hold and the training and use of large dogs is a well understood art in the Empire. None of this applies to mystery box lizards which will probably be a useless drain on resources. The hidden roll might have been a 1 after all - pay 200 gp for a liability.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I intend to vote gifting them to Seija the very next week.
 
vsh said:
I imagine two WHFB players comparing dwarven army rosters then one of them exclaims:
-You spent 450 points worth of magic items to equip WHO?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
It would probably be more like a Dwarf player and a Skaven and/or Orc player comparing lists. With the dwarf player taking a lot fewer Casters than expected after dumping most of his points in two characters.
 
Imrix said:
Also worth noting, a 'legitimate claim' to land in the Border Princes is generally worth about as much as the paper it's printed on to the locals. There are plenty of quite literal bandit princes.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Makes sense. A land deed is only of value when someone's backing it and there's no one who would actually do that, I seriously doubt the dwarfs would send military backup to secure a pile of worthless orc covered crap, at least not without spending valuable dwarf favor.

I'd perhaps reconsider if someone could come up with an actual reason to buy the place and to give to someone else isn't a good reason. If we don't want it because it's worthless then why would anyone else want it?

The eggs are potentially very valuable (or potentially filled with corpses, or worse, ripperdactyls) the scales are definitely valuable (and might even be worth college favor if we found an enchanter in need of material) but the land appears to be completely worthless. The money would be better spent hiring mercenaries to take over a piece of borderland rather than buying a worthless title.
 
noliar said:
The purchase I dislike is the Lustrian eggs. If they hatch at all we'll have tiny hatchling dinosaurs no one knows how to properly care for in the middle of an intense military campaign. Wolf is a familiar, we have a good idea how mature he'll be by the time we reach the hold and the training and use of large dogs is a well understood art in the Empire. None of this applies to mystery box lizards which will probably be a useless drain on resources. The hidden roll might have been a 1 after all - pay 200 gp for a liability.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
We literally have two Amber wizards with the magical intuition to manage all animals. As Mathilde said in the update itself, worst case she has an interesting exotic anatomy study. Her new talisman is also handy in terms of protecting her from anything a hatchling, however aggressive, might try, which is good for taming. Step 1 is almost always to show the critter it can't do anything to you

Well, ACTUAL worst case would be live dragon eggs with momma still looking for it :p
 
[x] Purchase the title of a Border Princess (300 gc).

I vote for this purely because Princess Mathilde sounds cool and would probably be a fun plot point. Besides, even if the title itself provides no valuable land or anything else, it'll lead to interesting interactions.

We could be the wizard who left a knight and came back a princess.

The other things are pretty much new things we'll never bother looking into as we already have other things to deal with, like the Liber Mortis or Qhaysh juice.
 
Last edited:
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Test their skills in battle.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.

[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.

Play to some our strengths, and makes sure we know how these mages handle in a real fight. We are the ones in charge of them, so we should logically make sure they aren't going to scream and flee the moment they see anything scarier then a spider.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Have Ulthar handpick his best sharpshooters to be equipped with envenomed bolts.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.
[X] Purchase the title of a Border Princess (300 gc).

Although I feel the majority of burden to dispell magic have shifted over to Kragg, having more people that can cast dispell in a pinch seems smart for me.
 
Last edited:
[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.

Even if we buy the land, by the time we would be able to check it out it would probably be conquered by somebody else and/or burned to the ground.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Remove ads
Back
Top