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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] Leader

Drycha is watching the battle, so I'm concerned that she'd intervene if Mathilde manages to make a difference.

The people currently engaged in the skirmish seem less capable of piling on after the first strike.
 
Redshirt Army said:
[X] Leader

Even if we don't beat Drycha, an alpha strike from stealth followed by a retreat will seriously crimp her style and significantly reduce her chances of being able to tableflip this whole engagement - and between the Belt and Seed, Mathilde has the gear to survive this, I think.
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...you know, it occurs to me that Drycha is probably planning to use the Manticore as a distraction to attack Boris.

I'd rather not see him cut down here.

[X] Leader
 
[X]Leader

If the assassination fail, at least distracting the mastermind behind it would do more to ensure no funny non-Mathilde/allied business.

And time is on our side in this battle.
 
Godwinson said:
...you know, it occurs to me that Drycha is probably planning to use the Manticore as a distraction to attack Boris.
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Manticores are known to pick fights with Emperor dragons(and probably not immediately die), so if thats a distraction, its not one thats supposed to be for something that ends up with Boris immediately dead.
 
Godwinson said:
...you know, it occurs to me that Drycha is probably planning to use the Manticore as a distraction to attack Boris.

I'd rather not see him cut down here.

[X] Leader
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Cut down isn't too bad, we have the seed. I'm more worried about her kidnapping him for some kind of ritual. I'm not confident we could get him back if that happens.
 
Jreengus said:
Cut down isn't too bad, we have the seed. I'm more worried about her kidnapping him for some kind of ritual. I'm not confident we could get him back if that happens.
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Considering the two enemies that seem to be converging on him are a Treeman and a Manticore, Drycha would be an upgrade as someone to kill him, because those two won't leave enough left to heal.
 
[] Spellcasters
- [] Empty the dragonflask on them

@Boney is this a acceptable write in?

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[X] Empty the dragonflask on the spellcasters
 
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I am not sure we should use the flask, it will make is harder for us to cast for half an hour or so and that might as well be en eternity in battle. I think that is the sort of weapon you use in desperate need or you end the battle with.
 
If we were blowing up the treeman or a formation of enemies then I could see using the flask, but I figure just cutting the dryads down would work fine. It doesn't really seem worth it to bust the flask out.

Then again we haven't used it yet, so that's a pretty compelling argument for trying it out.
 
DragonParadox said:
I am not sure we should use the flask, it will make is harder for us to cast for half an hour or so and that might as well be en eternity in battle. I think that is the sort of weapon you use in desperate need or you end the battle with.
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my thinking is that we got 3 tree spellcaster focused on a spell bending the forest to their will, when we get the jump we will prob be able to get one out easily maybe 2 if we are lucky but the third or second will have noticed refocused and now ready to engage with us. Sure we are better at melee than them but they are still good spellcasters. Who knows how long they could drag out the battle all while other forces move on the battlefield. With the dragon flask we eliminate them right away, take away a key threat and we can quickly refocus to deal with other threats on the battlefield.
 
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TempestK said:
I think the Forest itself wants these invader the fuck out. Which is why Mathilde picked up that thought. It's the Forest of Shadows after all, and I don't think that it got the name just for the shade of its canopy. With an Ulgu wizard within it? It may very well be able to communicate or at least drop information into her head. On top of that the forest is outright rejecting the foreign source of Ulgu. That really strikes me as strange.
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Oooh, that'd be a nice buff.

To those saying geek the wizards - yes, obviously. But other people are allowed to understand that, and the terrible trio over there is out in the open for more than just us to point out and kill.

The super wizard inside the forest on the other hand can not be disrupted by anyone except us, whatever she is doing is far more likely to be core to the actual plan than the obvious targets out front, and once we make any other move our chance of being able to throw a wrench in that plan successfully or safely plummets. If we want to delay or repulse Drycha, we must do so with the element of surprise.

That means attacking her now.
 
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Woltaire said:
my thinking is that we got 3 tree spellcaster focused on a spell bending the forest to their will, when we get the jump we will prob be able to get one out easily maybe 2 if we are lucky but the third or second will have noticed refocused and now ready to engage with us. Sure we are better at melee than them but they are still good spellcasters. Who knows how long they could drag out the battle all while other forces move on the battlefield. With the dragon flask we eliminate them right away, take away a key threat and we can quickly refocus to deal with other threats on the battlefield.
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I mean sure they will refocus on us, but we still have both our native ability to dispel, which I rather trust over non-Lord spellcasting Dryads and the belt that will eat one spell for free. I am a lot more worried about getting a malus to all our spells after this engagement over the whole span of the battle. It may well be enough to degrade all FC spells to the point where we have to roll for them as if they were battle magic and that would be nasty since the FC spells are what we use as a base for teleportation.
 
Redshirt Army said:
[X] Leader

Even if we don't beat Drycha, an alpha strike from stealth followed by a retreat will seriously crimp her style and significantly reduce her chances of being able to tableflip this whole engagement - and between the Belt and Seed, Mathilde has the gear to survive this, I think.
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You expect Mathilde to retreat when an enemy is still in sword range? I can't recall a time when she's done that. If you were voting for something like-

[] Make a distraction attack on the Leader, then retreat.

Maybe it'd work out. But on her own usual initiative, she's more likely to overextend herself into taking death saves than to retreat. Plus, Drycha is an Ulgu caster, meaning Mathilde would have to rely on her gear to save her. That almost didn't work out for her when facing Alakazam; she was one bad roll away from the belt not saving her then. I don't want to repeat that.
 
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Derpmind said:
You expect Mathilde to retreat when an enemy is still in sword range? I can't recall a time when she's done that. If you were voting for something like-

[] Make a distraction attack on the Leader, then retreat.

Maybe it'd work out. But on her own usual initiative, she's more likely to overextend herself into taking death saves than to retreat. Plus, Drycha is an Ulgu caster, meaning Mathilde would have to rely on her gear to save her. That almost didn't work out for her when facing Alakazam; she was one bad roll away from the belt not saving her then. I don't want to repeat that.
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What are you talking about? In character, she is anything but adverse to retreat.

Seriously, we had an entire character arc and mega-trait that was about desperately searching for a capability to get out of dodge, which led to getting smoke and mirrors. Mathilde explicitly values the Joestar Family Secret Technique.

She's also in the forest of shadows and the shadows are on her side and against Drycha's. As usual for Avatar shenanigans, her MO will shift to match up with the divine influence boosting her, and that's pretty transparently in the direction of sneaky shit.
 
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