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La Chanson de la Victoire (The Song of Victory): La Petite Arpenteuse (Non, SV, you are a General of France in the Napoleonic War!)
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Well, now it's even more powerful. 64% chance of any crit (with no penalties, of course) up from 54. If this keeps up, we'll be able to artcrit and guarantee a high additional roll in a polar blizzard, blindfolded.
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Plus reroll my friend, Plus reroll.
While dragging a canon onto a hilltop to kill the enemy commander while he's taking a nice hot bath.
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May I suggest:
The Outriders
The Harbingers
The latter is a bit of a stretch, but also very ominous. When the surveyors come on the horizon, the enemies of France know their time has come.
The Outriders
The Harbingers
The latter is a bit of a stretch, but also very ominous. When the surveyors come on the horizon, the enemies of France know their time has come.
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I was counting the reroll, it's 32 without, 64 with.
Actually, I'm noting the math's more complicated while going through the ruleslist, as we only reroll failed rolls, and it's getting harder and harder to fail rolls. This means I was overestimating the values in both cases of crits. I might actually try and work out the math at some point, but the important thing is that failure chances are going down.
(Basically, it's rerolling fails, not Advantage like I thought it was.)
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Actually, it occurs to me, @Plausitivity
We reroll failures, but let's say it goes horribly. First roll's a 10, +30 it's still a failure, reroll.
Second roll's a 1, critical failure.
Do we keep the 1, or do we revert back to the 40 failure instead?
We reroll failures, but let's say it goes horribly. First roll's a 10, +30 it's still a failure, reroll.
Second roll's a 1, critical failure.
Do we keep the 1, or do we revert back to the 40 failure instead?
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Disruption seems promising. If we can bait the opposing cavalry into action, perhaps by leaving some infantry "exposed" and destroy them with a counter-charge, our own force's threat will loom over them for the remainder of the siege. Knocking out their artillery is an optimistic prospect, but even forcing them to assign units to guard it against a cavalry charge would be useful in leveling the force disparity.
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it sound good sure but i`m not sure what the other are good at but we are not that good with horses remember!
to be honest i split between going infantry or artillery because the former is going to need all the help it can get to hold while the latter we are far more expert in!
to be honest i split between going infantry or artillery because the former is going to need all the help it can get to hold while the latter we are far more expert in!
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get the bonuses
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Ah, I see she didn't see the crazy one waving his sword around before her brother put a round in his face.
[ ] Disrupt
[ ] Plan Helsreach
-[ ] Thérèse: The Artillery
-[ ] Chamans: The Cavalry
-[ ] de Lisle: The Artillery
-[ ] Severin: The Bridge
-[ ] De Beauharnais: The City
Might as well take advantage of the superior cavalry force we have. They can create brush-fires, so to speak, that Brunswick would have to put out, preventing him from putting his undivided attention on the bridges. There's also the small matter of the disadvantage inherent in keeping them stuck in a small perimeter. Chamans is best suited for the task.
Severin couldn't be a more obviously suited candidate for commanding the defense of the bridge if he ripped a plank out of it and beat Brunswick over the head with it.
De Beauharnais, as the higher ranked and more experienced officer, should be placed on the walls of the city. Presumably, he has the highest Grand Strategy skill out of everyone, and so is best suited to organizing reserves and wheeling out exhausted units.
De Isle is an artillery officer and our highest unit stat is in artillery. Sounds like overkill, at first glance, but it will be simpler to delegate a battery to suppress enemy artillery/cover the cavalry and support the infantry with both of them present.
Anybody got any other ideas? Seems fairly straight forward to me.
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I'd want to place Therese on the bridge as well as Severin, as she's a competent infantry commander and they could use the extra morale to hold longer. All the picks are fine though.
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You keep the higher rolls, of course.
Also, yeah, you guys get rerolls on fail, not advantage. Constant advantage is kind of broken imo.
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Perfect.
I don't really have a preference for names here.
Just 2 men? Either this is some 4D chess by Brunswick to fool us or he really is that lacking in cavalry.
Defence, definitely. I want him to commit all his troops on the bridges as much as he can.
Either bridge or artillery here. Preferably the bridge. Does our +20 for defence cover for everyone in the army or just under our personal command?
Chamans will lead most of our cavalry.
Artillery for our artillery officer.
We need him to hold the central and north flank. So bridge it is.
Beauharnais would lead the reserve cavalry.
The goal here is to defeat this coalition army before the other one can reinforce it. That means a decisive battle.
The plan is to have Brunswick commit his troops at one part. Ideally the south, which has good defensive terrain. We would need to either have us there, put less troop there or both.
Our cavalry would be divided in two. One would have as much or less as the coalition's cavalry while the rest hides in the north forest. They would be the key here.
While he knows we have cavalry, he doesn't exactly know how much we have. As long as he can see we have cavalry, he would be less hesitate to use his to exploit any opebing he sees.
If things go as planned, he would try to smash into our southern flank the most, while the central and northern would be less so. The longer we can hold him at the bridges, the more he will put more troops there. As soon as he sends in his final reserve, we send in ours while also have our main hammer to smash the northern part, then attack south.
But you know what they say, plans don't survive contact with the enemy.
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[x] plan Wrong Bridge
[] plan GEO
-[ ] Thérèse: The Infantry - group A (North Bridge)
-[ ] Chamans: The Cavalry
-[ ] de Lisle: The Artillery
-[ ] Severin: The Infantry - group B (South Bridge)
-[ ] De Beauharnais: The City
[] Les géomètres (ordonnance militaire de arpenteurs)
Map:
Notes:
You must lead the outflank n the north (nearly all - to maximise impact) as they will be vital to demoralising the enemy. Flank from surprise, charge, spike guns, outflank their lines, pursue. Can we prepositon Cavalry in hiding in the north forest (on hill overlooking flank and north bridge) with infantry picket line in support? Crossing the bridge, potentially under their guns, seems less than advantageous, but if they break? Outflanking maximises the impact of cavalry. Hammer them!
If the north looks too heavily defended hold the bridge and send Chamans' cavalry south to outflank with Severin.
Chamans supports you in the north outflanking force by leading the Cavalry. This is vital to victory and needs to be timed right and lead to the correct path to flank and then roused to charge effectively with enough leadership to maintain discipline. You need to be able to respond to circumstance here.
De Lisle is an artillery commander. You can count on him to exploit the advantage that the position of the guns gives him. Two commanders here would be a waste. The gunners morale won't be tested much beyond receiving counter fire. He must keep pressure off the forces holding the bridge by keeping the enemy artillery from closing and poundng any attack.
Severin must hold the south bridge or your flanking force will be unsupported and the unopposed enemy will turn to face you. Angle his forces at each side to enfilade the end of the bridge from both sides creating a kill zone of triple overlapping fire between them. Neither side can bring all their forces to bear at the bridge. A bottle neck. It is those crossing the bridge that are truly getting it in the neck. Emplace anti-cavalry stakes and earth filled baskets and siege trenches for cover.
If the enemy forces in the south are weak enough, then push to the second bridge (and over that one too if you gain cavalry support).
De Beauharnais will hold positions in and near the city. Just don't let the enemy take the city, keep public order and we can't go far wrong. Any reserve here will be well directed by a strategic thinker.
-[ ] Thérèse: The Infantry - group A (North Bridge)
-[ ] Chamans: The Cavalry
-[ ] de Lisle: The Artillery
-[ ] Severin: The Infantry - group B (South Bridge)
-[ ] De Beauharnais: The City
[] Les géomètres (ordonnance militaire de arpenteurs)
Map:
Notes:
You must lead the outflank n the north (nearly all - to maximise impact) as they will be vital to demoralising the enemy. Flank from surprise, charge, spike guns, outflank their lines, pursue. Can we prepositon Cavalry in hiding in the north forest (on hill overlooking flank and north bridge) with infantry picket line in support? Crossing the bridge, potentially under their guns, seems less than advantageous, but if they break? Outflanking maximises the impact of cavalry. Hammer them!
If the north looks too heavily defended hold the bridge and send Chamans' cavalry south to outflank with Severin.
Chamans supports you in the north outflanking force by leading the Cavalry. This is vital to victory and needs to be timed right and lead to the correct path to flank and then roused to charge effectively with enough leadership to maintain discipline. You need to be able to respond to circumstance here.
De Lisle is an artillery commander. You can count on him to exploit the advantage that the position of the guns gives him. Two commanders here would be a waste. The gunners morale won't be tested much beyond receiving counter fire. He must keep pressure off the forces holding the bridge by keeping the enemy artillery from closing and poundng any attack.
Severin must hold the south bridge or your flanking force will be unsupported and the unopposed enemy will turn to face you. Angle his forces at each side to enfilade the end of the bridge from both sides creating a kill zone of triple overlapping fire between them. Neither side can bring all their forces to bear at the bridge. A bottle neck. It is those crossing the bridge that are truly getting it in the neck. Emplace anti-cavalry stakes and earth filled baskets and siege trenches for cover.
If the enemy forces in the south are weak enough, then push to the second bridge (and over that one too if you gain cavalry support).
De Beauharnais will hold positions in and near the city. Just don't let the enemy take the city, keep public order and we can't go far wrong. Any reserve here will be well directed by a strategic thinker.
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Well, they're the two men who survived the patrol. Dead men tell no tales.
It's a personal trait, and you're nowhere near having enough Grand Strategy to have your buffs apply to an entire army! (hint hint)
I'm also gonna sneak a +1 to Cavalry Command since you crit on the Survey roll, since I'm feeling nice and riding with them helps get you familiarized with the activity.
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Hey, we're not gonna complain about freebies. Another question, would the one in charge of the city also responsible for the bridge near it or is that still the job of the bridge holders?
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Bridge holders are the boys holding the bridge. They may reposition to defend other positions, but they will more often than not hold their positions unless the positions are untenable, and retreat to defensive lines that we have prepared outside the city.
The Prussians, if they get across the bridge will be bleeding for every inch.
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Can we see this map again that people are referring to, since we have done a survey? A map with north shown. I've added Chamans to the flanking force. Defensive Outflank!
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Another question, do we have the artillery pre-sighted?
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Yeah here's a general approximation (word heavy):
Yeah, y'all had a week to do it, and I'd be pissed if the artillery crews didn't do that.
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Ah, so there's somewhere shallow enough they can wade through the water. That complicate things.
Also looking at the map, it seems Bridge Group A is the most likely to be attacked. If he really is going to ambush us using his horses, it'll be through here. The city is too heavily defended by canons while the south has two bridges, making reinforcing there slower. We may need to lead there by ourselves.
Is unit placement already set in stone?
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Mostly. They'll be put in places where they're most of use: mainly infantry in the bridge areas, some artillery support; cavalry can be flexible here; line of artillery to guard the river front as suppression.
You could add in a blurb under your command vote like:
[] Plan me
-[] Therese
--[] Cavalry: move roam the west to ward off surprise from behind
You could do that for the others too, and I'll take that into consideration.