Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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[X]Alectai's report+numbers of the enemy forces.
Not quite sure whom to join during the assault, I'll add it later. Seed makes us a stupidly good bodyguard tho so leaning Kragg or Belegar. Losing either would turn this smooth sailing campaing into an absolute disaster pretty much instantly and we'll get to chop gribblies into bits regardless.
Not quite sure whom to join during the assault, I'll add it later. Seed makes us a stupidly good bodyguard tho so leaning Kragg or Belegar. Losing either would turn this smooth sailing campaing into an absolute disaster pretty much instantly and we'll get to chop gribblies into bits regardless.
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- Seattle, Washington
[X] Serving as Kragg the Grim's bodyguard as he unseals the Armoury, the Temple of Grungni, and the Hall of Oaths.
chocolote12
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Kragg gets to do that too, but maybe also fight magic monsters that can shoot laser beams or something. It's an obvious upgrade.
Ah that's a shame, I was hoping at least it'd be able to get an extra "mastery" effect via ritual casting.
[X] Serving as Kragg the Grim's bodyguard as he unseals the Armoury, the Temple of Grungni, and the Hall of Oaths.
I'll wait to add the report vote, as I think it's important to mention the ork slaves that were being traded and that the trolls were stone ones.
- Location
- Russia
Thoughts about fighting:
Skaroki Grimbrow: safe, boring, we don't contribute anything the dwarves don't already have.
Belegar: relatively safe (able to rotate to the second/third line if wounded), "normal" fighting. Dread aspect is useful in breaking goblins.
Slayers: if there are monsters here, this is the option to fight them. Risky combat with big gribblies, terror is not as useful, tankiness and shadow tendrils, on the other hand, are.
Kragg: mystery box option. If everything is sealed it can be without combat altogether. If something is breached there is a decent chance to meet enemy heroes and leaders - temples and armory look like locations where warboss can make their lair (temples are big and majestic, armory has all the weapons).
Skaroki Grimbrow: safe, boring, we don't contribute anything the dwarves don't already have.
Belegar: relatively safe (able to rotate to the second/third line if wounded), "normal" fighting. Dread aspect is useful in breaking goblins.
Slayers: if there are monsters here, this is the option to fight them. Risky combat with big gribblies, terror is not as useful, tankiness and shadow tendrils, on the other hand, are.
Kragg: mystery box option. If everything is sealed it can be without combat altogether. If something is breached there is a decent chance to meet enemy heroes and leaders - temples and armory look like locations where warboss can make their lair (temples are big and majestic, armory has all the weapons).
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Omegahugger
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See, it's that maybe part that makes it stumble. For if there was a certainty that we would fight rat ogres with eyebeams, that's where the Slayers would be.
By following the Slayer throng, we maximise the odds of finding big and nasty things to kill with a sword that's almost as big as we are. Since that's the sort of thing Slayers are looking for.
Also by hiding a murderblender inside a large group of murderblenders we minimize the odds that Mathilde gets picked out and bullied, even if her horse does make her stand out.
I wonder what the narrative impact of the goblins once again having pretty astonishingly good rolls will be. They rolled:
91, 66, 77, 94, 41, 16.
That's an average of 64, as if they were rocking stats of 24 rather than 10.
Honestly, by the time Kragg gets somewhere I'd expect that the area will have been swept by the dwaves half a dozen times. He's a VVIP, and we know the dwarves are sending first rangers and an assault vanguard ahead of them.
Sure, there's a risk of skaven assassins jumping out of nowhere, but that would require them to have contracted Clan Eshin ages ago to ship in an assassin in time.
Any actually troops or monsters should have been long since dealt with, even if the strategic vaults have been breached, because the assault troops will get there first and kill everything.
91, 66, 77, 94, 41, 16.
That's an average of 64, as if they were rocking stats of 24 rather than 10.
Honestly, by the time Kragg gets somewhere I'd expect that the area will have been swept by the dwaves half a dozen times. He's a VVIP, and we know the dwarves are sending first rangers and an assault vanguard ahead of them.
Sure, there's a risk of skaven assassins jumping out of nowhere, but that would require them to have contracted Clan Eshin ages ago to ship in an assassin in time.
Any actually troops or monsters should have been long since dealt with, even if the strategic vaults have been breached, because the assault troops will get there first and kill everything.
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[X] Reporting:
--[X] State of enemy forces and defenses near landing pad, and following sabotage.
--[X] Hall of Oaths remains sealed, and not for lack of try
--[X] Estimated composition, quality, and type of enemies in Hall of the Moon. General defenses (or lack thereof) The general interactions between Skaven and Goblin, as well as the type of beasts being exchanged (rat beasts and orcs). Goblin Big Boss (describe) was shot and killed, the Skaven leader (describe) blinded as a side-effect, while under guise of Skaven, and infighting broke out. Current information accuracy uncertain after chaos initiated.
--[X] Type of defenses in King's Gates, including enemy troop compositions, artillery, and Stone Troll trap, and the following sabotage initiated
--[X] General state of affairs in Lhune as far as clans noted and occupying.
[X] Storming the Gates with the Vanguard.
- [X] Belegar and Clan Angrund
--[X] State of enemy forces and defenses near landing pad, and following sabotage.
--[X] Hall of Oaths remains sealed, and not for lack of try
--[X] Estimated composition, quality, and type of enemies in Hall of the Moon. General defenses (or lack thereof) The general interactions between Skaven and Goblin, as well as the type of beasts being exchanged (rat beasts and orcs). Goblin Big Boss (describe) was shot and killed, the Skaven leader (describe) blinded as a side-effect, while under guise of Skaven, and infighting broke out. Current information accuracy uncertain after chaos initiated.
--[X] Type of defenses in King's Gates, including enemy troop compositions, artillery, and Stone Troll trap, and the following sabotage initiated
--[X] General state of affairs in Lhune as far as clans noted and occupying.
[X] Storming the Gates with the Vanguard.
- [X] Belegar and Clan Angrund
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- Location
- United States of America, Michigan
Shouldn't we also mention the pit full of orcs too since it seems like a good idea to mention when attacking a goblin fortress that it has a large clump of meatier boys
- Location
- Russia
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
I know the timeline doesn't match up for this to be the reason, but wouldn't you normally attribute a vast amount of competent goblins to the presence of someone like Skarsnik?
I mean, I know he isn't the warboss at this point in time, but could it be that there's a young Skarsnik boss lurking around somewhere here? Neither Warhammer timelines nor Greenskin lifespans are my strong suit so I genuinely have no idea.
- Location
- Earth
[X] Alectai
- Location
- Hollister
[X] Reporting:
--[X] State of enemy forces and defenses near landing pad, and following sabotage.
--[X] Hall of Oaths remains sealed, and not for lack of try
--[X] Estimated composition, quality, and type of enemies in Hall of the Moon. The general interactions between Skaven and Goblin, as well as the type of beasts being exchanged (rat beasts and orcs). Goblin Big Boss (describe) was shot and killed, the Skaven leader (describe) blinded as a side-effect, while under guise of Skaven, and infighting broke out. Current information accuracy uncertain after chaos initiated.
--[X] Type of defenses in King's Gates, including enemy troop compositions, artillery, and Stone Troll trap, and the following sabotage initiated
--[X] General state of affairs in Lhune as far as clans noted and occupying
--[X] State of enemy forces and defenses near landing pad, and following sabotage.
--[X] Hall of Oaths remains sealed, and not for lack of try
--[X] Estimated composition, quality, and type of enemies in Hall of the Moon. The general interactions between Skaven and Goblin, as well as the type of beasts being exchanged (rat beasts and orcs). Goblin Big Boss (describe) was shot and killed, the Skaven leader (describe) blinded as a side-effect, while under guise of Skaven, and infighting broke out. Current information accuracy uncertain after chaos initiated.
--[X] Type of defenses in King's Gates, including enemy troop compositions, artillery, and Stone Troll trap, and the following sabotage initiated
--[X] General state of affairs in Lhune as far as clans noted and occupying
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I'm aiming to get more of everything without trying to make a story out of it. Don't make assumptions and tales, give good details.
His Rangers have swept the secondary peak with crossbow bolts. It doesn't seem like there's anything that needs saying.
Those are dwarves and this is military report. "It needed doing" style. Time is short, so no bragging. I am also not certain about usage of 'Skaven'.
[X] Report: Scouting went as well as could be expected.
-[X] Goblin launchers on peak damaged.
-[X] Hall of Oaths remained sealed
-[X] The Crooked Moon Goblins in Hall of the Moon seem to have an alliance of convenience with rat people. They have a large number rat beasts.
--[X] Goblin commander killed under illusion of Skaven, and rat-man they negotiated with blinded. There is chance it will break their cooperation, but problems with disengaging may allow goblins to put things together.
-[X] King's Gates goblins distracted by releasing a stone trolls hidden just past their bolt throwers.
Edit: stone trolls.
[X] Report: Scouting went as well as could be expected.
-[X] Goblin launchers on peak damaged.
-[X] Hall of Oaths remained sealed
-[X] The Crooked Moon Goblins in Hall of the Moon seem to have an alliance of convenience with rat people. They have a large number rat beasts.
--[X] Goblin commander killed under illusion of Skaven, and rat-man they negotiated with blinded. There is chance it will break their cooperation, but problems with disengaging may allow goblins to put things together.
-[X] King's Gates goblins distracted by releasing a stone trolls hidden just past their bolt throwers.
Edit: stone trolls.
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Agreed. Concise but detailed.
- Location
- Russia
IIRC, greenskins don't die from old age, so their lifespans are "until killed".
Sorry, it seems I suffered from reading comprehension failure. I thought they were going into the secondary peak to sabotage everything inside.
[X] Report: Scouting went as well as could be expected, and I took the liberty of indulging in some sabotage while I was at it. You've already seen my work on the goblin launchers, but I also managed to confirm the Hall of Oaths remained sealed, and got eyes inside the Hall of the Moon. Things there were... Troubling--the Crooked Moon Goblins seem to have an alliance of convenience with at least one group of Skaven, and had prepared a large number of some kind of rat beasts for us. I took the liberty of putting a bullet in the Goblin commander's skull while wearing the illusion of being a Skaven--and the warpstone the Goblin had for teeth blew up when I shot him and wounded the Skaven he was negotating with as an added bonus--but things were a bit too hot to stay put and confirm more than the start of infighting--all I can tell you is that the Goblins there are significantly faster and more determined than they probably should be, and it's something that should be taken into account. Beyond that? I made my way to the King's Gates to see if there was anything I could do to ease the approach, found they had a nasty trap prepared in the form of a false floor with a herd of trolls hidden beneath just past their bolt throwers. I took the liberty of releasing the trolls on them, and they were in the middle of a nasty riot by the time I made good my escape.
[X] Serving as Kragg the Grim's bodyguard as he unseals the Armoury, the Temple of Grungni, and the Hall of Oaths.
[X] Serving as Kragg the Grim's bodyguard as he unseals the Armoury, the Temple of Grungni, and the Hall of Oaths.
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This whole "alliance of convenience" thing is an assumption at best. We don't know the details of that, so just give the facts as we saw it, not our assumptions.
What is that supposed to be? If that's the earlier ones, I recommend a more concise but detailed one, like DOS's or mine, because we don't need to give a story or brag.
[X] Report: Scouting went as well as could be expected, and I took the liberty of indulging in some sabotage while I was at it. You've already seen my work on the goblin launchers, but I also managed to confirm the Hall of Oaths remained sealed, and got eyes inside the Hall of the Moon. Things there were... Troubling--the Crooked Moon Goblins seem to have an alliance of convenience with at least one group of Skaven, and had prepared a large number of some kind of rat beasts for us. I took the liberty of putting a bullet in the Goblin commander's skull while wearing the illusion of being a Skaven--and the warpstone the Goblin had for teeth blew up when I shot him and wounded the Skaven he was negotating with as an added bonus--but things were a bit too hot to stay put and confirm more than the start of infighting--all I can tell you is that the Goblins there are significantly faster and more determined than they probably should be, and it's something that should be taken into account. Beyond that? I made my way to the King's Gates to see if there was anything I could do to ease the approach, found they had a nasty trap prepared in the form of a false floor with a herd of trolls hidden beneath just past their bolt throwers. I took the liberty of releasing the trolls on them, and they were in the middle of a nasty riot by the time I made good my escape.
[X] Serving as Kragg the Grim's bodyguard as he unseals the Armoury, the Temple of Grungni, and the Hall of Oaths.
[X] Serving as Kragg the Grim's bodyguard as he unseals the Armoury, the Temple of Grungni, and the Hall of Oaths.
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Alectai, this reads more like a story than a report. Nothing about defenses, numbers, doesn't even point out the trolls were stone trolls.
