This is a real disappointment. Perhaps the best opportunity we'll ever have to make this spell great and we're going to throw it away, and probably get a bunch of Rangers killed for literally nothing.
Everything the fire plan can do this plan:
[] Have the catapults indirect fire incendiaries into Grobit-Town, focused on the region immediately around the avenue.
Would do significantly better at significantly lower risk. Worse, that plan is effectively
part of the Burnign Shadows plan.
As far as I can see, he just confirmed that ritual casting will work, which left implication that any plan that uses Burning Shadows in that way is ritual casting. It is also reasonable. Such huge effect would be risky be its very nature.
As for tired - after night spent on sneaking around through enemy territory and assasinating shamans one gets tired. At very least mentally tired due to stress, casting and sheer time required. And being mentally exhausted is what counts during casting. It's just begging for miscast, and with ritual magic miscasts are deadly. We just lectured Panoramia about it.
There are three additional issues:
- we need to delay attack specifically so Mathilde can use her magic.
- I would not rate our chances for quite assasination of shamans high. Sure we will likely be able to do it. But do it undetected and without kicking greenskin anthill? It's much less certain.
- Mathilde is point of failure of a plan. If she is delayed with shamans or needs to run, it falls apart. If she alerts greenskins before time it falls apart. If she rolls badly on ritual it falls apart. It's better to use magic, but not rely on it entirely.Edit: ninja's.
No, he didn't quote the bit about ritual magic, and he also independentl suggested the idea before he read my suggestion, without saying a word about ritual magic.
If BoneyM returns and confirms that a normal spell would work would that actually change anything for you?
Have you read what I've previously said several times about why assassinating greenskin shamans would work, or do I need to repeat it?
The fire plan is one giant point of failure by assuming that this is a medieval human city and so will burn like one, despite it being of completely different construction which we've no reason to expect will burn the same. It also assumes that the Rangers or Mathilde won't get caught.
Plan Burning Shadows also has the catapults as a backup which will do everything the fire plan will if the fire plan is possible. That's why this is infuriating. It seems you're not actually reading the plan you're criticising.
The Burning Shadows spell in the Warhammer RPG naturally has a limited range. I'd want explicit QM confirmation before assuming that we could fully use an enormous shadow to channel the spell without ritual casting.
For something like literally the tenth time, we've had explicit confirmation. I quoted it literally nine posts above yours.
