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And while you could potentially be right, that still is mostly speculation based off of a lot of conjecture rather than anything explicitly stated in the story.
But if you want evidence of potential flammability then we have already gotten an example of Greenskin dwellings being flammable with how previously how the Goblin dwellings in the hall of the moon went up in flames and I have no reason to believe that the dwellings in the village should be any different. Secondly the entire place is described as a shanty town where all the buildings are packed close together and only a few proper roads, those are highly susceptible to fire even in modern settlements (or as modern as informal shack sprawls can get) they often burn out of control if not put out immediately.
This is still an Orc town, there should be smoke rising from all over the place. By the time the fire has reached the point that the Orcs will notice the smoke the Rangers should be long gone.
Honestly I feel like you are drastically underselling the skill of the rangers here.
That is rather disingenuous. Mainly because I have not at any point said that setting the fire is instantaneous or trivial to do, merely that with the current state of how sections of the town are abandoned that means that we have relatively easily accessed areas to work in to set our fires. Additionally when I say a "Single point of failure" I am referring to a single point where if things go wrong the entire operation fails, in the Burning Shadow plan it relies on Mathilde being able to cast a Burning Shadow spell on the Citadel's shadow.
Now while I acknowledge that the GM has said it is possible to use Burning Shadow in such a manner, I feel like I should point out that such a usage is almost certainly at the limit of the spell's capabilities and will almost certainly require a roll in order to work properly. As such if something goes wrong there then the entire plan is ruined.
This isn't true for the Fire plan, because while a key part is going to be Mathilde setting the buildings in the direction of the Citadel ablaze, if that part fails that doesn't ruin teh entire plans as other parts of our forces will be using various methods to set the fires. Hence my previous statement, the fire plan has redundancy to it as each successful fire lighting attempt adds to the overall blaze.
Also there are multiple way to light a fire for example some flint to make the initial sparks. Do remember that cannons and handguns are a thing so there should be man portal way to light fires available.
Burning Shadows doesn't work like that, it's more like an acid in how it effects things. Also if the Catapults can do so then adding more fire starting attempts would just make the blaze even bigger at a faster pace.
