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I am extremely conflicted. On the one hand cloud tribes and stealth action, on the other hand getting to delay an offensive force and show just how tanky post darkness month Qi is. Either way it should be fun.
 
I am pretty ambivalent regarding mission choice, I think we would do good on either.
This said, I expect better loot from the offensive mission, so baring any good arguments against it will be voting for it.
 
I'm leaning towards
[] Assault the Cloud Tribe Ritual Site (Offensive Mission, Objectives: Kill and capture enemy combatants, gather intelligence, Survive)
because I want to see us do better in a cloud tribe fight, and learn more about them.

I think we are strictly better at the defense option cause we have literally been training that scenario.
 
I believe both options are excellent opportunities for CRX and LQ to shine.

Defense is probably what has been built up more narratively as of late. But we're quite good at taking people alive with all of our control, our Qi Drain and CRX's Dispels on top.

I would prefer the Cloud Barb option so that we can learn about Ice Ladies. The impressively non-lethal takedown of so many barbs would be a nice bragging point too.

But maybe we see Suyin, Su Ling and/or Xuan Shi in the underground option, and I like playing with formations . . .

Hmph. Probably will let others vote. Not too picky.
 
Since it's at a ritual site, I would THINK that the cloud tribes are less mobile than they'd usually be. They can fly off, but that constitutes abandoning the ritual site. If we can stick Zhengui down close enough to the ritual site, I think we can work with him just fine.
 
[] Assault the Cloud Tribe Ritual Site (Offensive Mission, Objectives: Kill and capture enemy combatants, gather intelligence, Survive)
 
[] Assault the Cloud Tribe Ritual Site (Offensive Mission, Objectives: Kill and capture enemy combatants, gather intelligence, Survive)
Ling Qi is good at stealth and info gathering in general, and CRX is pretty damn good and flambouyant on a pure offensive point of view. I think having CRX lead the charge to kill the barbarians while we are to provide her with info and other support is the best image of our teamwork we could send.

The defensive mission would put Ling Qi in a much higher light than CRX, since the latter would have very little to contribute. That'd kind of bad.
And it also leaves the initiative to the enemy which is always bad.
 
Ayashi said:
[] Assault the Cloud Tribe Ritual Site (Offensive Mission, Objectives: Kill and capture enemy combatants, gather intelligence, Survive)
Ling Qi is good at stealth and info gathering in general, and CRX is pretty damn good and flambouyant on a pure offensive point of view. I think having CRX lead the charge to kill the barbarians while we are to provide her with info and other support is the best image of our teamwork we could send.

The defensive mission would put Ling Qi in a much higher light than CRX, since the latter would have very little to contribute. That'd kind of bad.
And it also leaves the initiative to the enemy which is always bad.
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Both missions are happening it seems. So the enemy is going to have the initiative for the underground one. Going on the cloud tribe mission doesn't change that.
 
Ayashi said:
[] Assault the Cloud Tribe Ritual Site (Offensive Mission, Objectives: Kill and capture enemy combatants, gather intelligence, Survive)
Ling Qi is good at stealth and info gathering in general, and CRX is pretty damn good and flambouyant on a pure offensive point of view. I think having CRX lead the charge to kill the barbarians while we are to provide her with info and other support is the best image of our teamwork we could send.

The defensive mission would put Ling Qi in a much higher light than CRX, since the latter would have very little to contribute. That'd kind of bad.
And it also leaves the initiative to the enemy which is always bad.
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No, CRX= Light-based artillery and dispell. I don't think the Shishigui have ever e countered CRX's overpowering, radiant Light dispels and lasers. In a fortified, defensive position, strong artillery is always a plus.
 
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reignonyrparade said:
Since it's at a ritual site, I would THINK that the cloud tribes are less mobile than they'd usually be. They can fly off, but that constitutes abandoning the ritual site. If we can stick Zhengui down close enough to the ritual site, I think we can work with him just fine.
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As long as that is the case, I'd be fine with the offensive position...If that's the case. I know CRX and LQ need a chance to shine here but so does ZG.
 
Lena27 said:
No, CRX= Light-headed artillery and dispell. I don't think the Shishigui have ever e countered CRX's overpowering, radiant Light dispels and lasers. In a fortified, defensive position, strong artillery is always a plus.
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Lazer artillery is always useful :V .
But if it's on both sides of the equation then it's not a deciding factor.
What does end up being deciding factors is things like CRX being able to fly would be a total waste on the defensive mission. Same with Ling Qi's enemy capture abilities.

But imo the most important part is how the action of our CRX + Ling Qi group will be seen from the outside (or rather the sect members).
One is Ling Qi helping CRX defeating the barbarians. The other is Ling Qi defending the fort as per mission parameters and CRX having fun at the shooting gallery.
The former is a much better image to send than the latter from all points of view.
 
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yrsillar said:
"That said, I must congratulate you on reaching the Green Threshold Stage," her liege said. "It is an impressive achievement."

"Only as impressive as yours," Ling Qi said. Cai Renxiang was fully threshold and had beaten her by the better part of a month, but the gap in base cultivation was closing.
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I love how Ling Qi just can't get it through her thick skull that she isn't supposed to keep up with Ducal Scions. She expects herself to do as well as them to the point that achieving this extraordinary cultivation doesn't register as such beyond the satisfaction that she's catching up.
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"We don't need too," Wang Chao had grumbled. "Let us build outposts and beasts take the rest, it would be better than leaving them be. Besides, don't let the nonsense from the north fool you, the tribes can be brought to heel, they're men as much as us. Slay their warriors and the rest fall in line. Half of the villages in our holdings are Cloud Tribe blood, there's rebellion for certain, but put it down a few times, give them a taste of a proper civilized lifestyle and make sure the children are taught properly and they're proper citizens in no time. Why one of Grandfather's favored generals is the grandson of a Khan who surrendered."

"I will have to defer to your experience," Ling Qi had said carefully. Something about his words bothered her, but she couldn't say exactly what.
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Ling Qi has been taught to dehumanize barbarians to the point that Wang Chao suggesting they are people makes her uncomfortable. Like, they can be made part of the Empire, part of its people, living indistinguishably and considered the same group as her. This blurring of the lines of who barbarians are and who people are is confusing. She knows Cloud Tribesmen are people but she considers them more as like the alien, man eating, filth cultivating ratmen than as people people that just live adjacently.
 
I'm leaning towards the nomads, both for aesthetic purposes and because IMO a music showdown/standoff with our bardbarian nemesis seems just like the kind of thing for advancing our Woodwind skills.
 
dycouza said:
I love how Ling Qi just can't get it through her thick skull that she isn't supposed to keep up with Ducal Scions. She expects herself to do as well as them to the point that achieving this extraordinary cultivation doesn't register as such beyond the satisfaction that she's catching up.
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Funny thing is, she seems to actually be cultivating slightly faster, as she gets closer and closer each time.

Its just that she wants to sprint through them rather than slowly overtake them.
 
Given what we've seen of the Cloud Tribe before, and the mission's description, I don't really know if Zhengui will be able to do all that much. We can airdrop him onto the meeting site, but if they scatter and keep far enough away, then he can't really assist beyond some volcanic spit and maybe buffs or whatever.

Because of what we've done with Zhengui in these last several updates, I think I'm voting for the Defensive mission. He's the defender, and Ling Qi's the controller, and something like this gives them both equally a chance to shine.
 
Moratorium over, I'm going to go with

[X] Assault the Cloud Tribe Ritual Site (Offensive Mission, Objectives: Kill and capture enemy combatants, gather intelligence, Survive)

Because yeah, flight at our cultivation level is absolutely huge and it would be a shame to not take advantage of that. Don't fight an enemy that has control of the air. Just don't. Plus, as is pointed out, we can't do the qi drain thing as well underground. And just to cap it off, we're attacking a specific site. Dropping Zhengui on it works to deny it to them, which works the same as having him defend a spot filled with production cultivators.
 
[X] Defend the Geomantic Forts (Defensive Mission, Objective: Hold the Line, Defend production students, Survive)

I want to see Suyin and this seems like the best way to reintroduce her. Its been a while
 
[X] Assault the Cloud Tribe Ritual Site (Offensive Mission, Objectives: Kill and capture enemy combatants, gather intelligence, Survive)
 
I just feel like cloud tribe ritual site offers more narrative intel, and mostly I want something different from more underground stuff.

[X] Assault the Cloud Tribe Ritual Site (Offensive Mission, Objectives: Kill and capture enemy combatants, gather intelligence, Survive)
 
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