I have a question about Veterancy bonuses, we have a bonus from the War against Chaos that is slowly going away. Do the battles we are currently fighting contribute to any form of veterancy? are our warriors more experienced thanks to being blooded in multiple battles?
Thats currently being decided. I am of the opinion it should reflect the veterancy of the throng. The more casualties you have, the more verterancy you lose. The less casualties you take, while winning/fighting battles the higher the veterancy of the unit.
I am also of the opinion that we start making elite formations outside of just the grumbling guard to retain the chaos war verterancy, and look for means of increasing the warriors/quarrelers veterancy.
Understand if not for the debacle against the 'True Orcs'/black orcs you still would have the war against chaos bonus for longer. However we took a lot of casualties in that war.
One thing that could be argued is that most of our casualties so far have been beardlings. Not full beards or elders, so maybe we can retain the bonus for longer. But outside of making formations, I don't think that will count.
We should also look into militarised use of engineers. Which I think Madslayer and myself forgot to incorporate during this phase of the battle. (we brought 5 grudegraker wielding engineers and not a single one was used so far in the turns, despite how deadly they would be). If this is true, I'll haggle with Madslayer on whether we should go over the battle again, with their addition (all the other results are primarily the same, but with the addition of the engineers to assist with withdrawrals which are what primarily caused the deaths of Halton and his men - I had made inquests in to the use of the Steelbow Rangers [various tricks up their sleeves] but we couldn't think of anything they would currently do that they wouldn't think of as 'orcs work').
EDIT: Do note, the grudgerakers mentioned may be crank-guns, due to mislabeling (we'd been talking about engineers heading to the colony due to the high number of corsair attacks, so they could test their weapons, though this could also be just what sort of weapons the engineers had lying spare. Regardless we have far more than the 4 engineers necessary to man the cannon, that could participate in the battle with their personal weapons)
