Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism

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[X] Pyramid - The more bombs, the more confusion amongst the overseers, the more manipulation, the greater the effect when the trigger is finally pulled. The greater the effect, the worse of Alyssa's position on the Ark will be, and the worse the food crisis would become. Hultressa will already be spending time with this, and has done so already, but the more she does, the better the end result - or worse, if you are Alyssa Voidreaper. The kind of destruction that could occur if properly focused upon could be quite effective if triggered at the right time, even if it is just to force Alyssa to send away some of her strength at the Auction to investigate.

Boomies are funsies.

Fireworks are very pretty.
 
[X] Conserving Strength - Spending time running about may well end up being less valuable than Hultressa focusing purely on conserving her strength and building her focus and power for what is to come. Also, apparently, something about scrolls, possibly something about potions. Either way, it would mean no effort put behind anything else but ensuring that Hultressa is able to bring her full focus and power to bear when it comes to the Auction proper.

Changed my mind, i think Hultressa's strength is most important at the auction
 
[X] Conserving Strength - Spending time running about may well end up being less valuable than Hultressa focusing purely on conserving her strength and building her focus and power for what is to come. Also, apparently, something about scrolls, possibly something about potions. Either way, it would mean no effort put behind anything else but ensuring that Hultressa is able to bring her full focus and power to bear when it comes to the Auction proper.
 
[X] Pyramid - The more bombs, the more confusion amongst the overseers, the more manipulation, the greater the effect when the trigger is finally pulled. The greater the effect, the worse of Alyssa's position on the Ark will be, and the worse the food crisis would become. Hultressa will already be spending time with this, and has done so already, but the more she does, the better the end result - or worse, if you are Alyssa Voidreaper. The kind of destruction that could occur if properly focused upon could be quite effective if triggered at the right time, even if it is just to force Alyssa to send away some of her strength at the Auction to investigate.

Aight just done reading through the discussions for this voting, and the bombs do seem like they could probably do more. So changing to bombing the pyramid.
 
Verthack said:
Changed my mind, i think Hultressa's strength is most important at the auction
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Hultressas strength matters less if Voidreaper has more backup dancers. One vs one maybe. But that's not what's being risked here. Hell, it's not even what's being planned for.

It's one vs anywhere between more than a dozen and less. The fewer distractions in play, the more sorceresses she'll have on hand to fight against Hultressa and whomever else takes their shot.

At that point it's not going to be a duel. It's going to be one vs two, or three, or however many Voidreaper can keep at her side in the chaos. Peeling away backup isn't just going to help Hultressa, it'll help ALL of Voidreapers rivals that come for her head, and that's a much bigger force multiplier than Hultressa herself

Edit: I think people are badly misunderstanding something here.

Voidreaper doesn't just have her cabal of Sorceresses to draw from. She also has the ostensible combined remaining military of the Claw of Dominion and the Fortress of Eternal Torture serving as her enforcers. Yes, turning the cults against her can help mitigate that numerical disparity. But the majority of our ability to break past that on a personal level if going to come down to Hultressas Horrors as breakthrough elements and vanguards to overcome the defensive positions and more normal supernaturally skilled Druchii warriors

Hultressa facing exhaustion is as much an inevitability as Voidreaper herself. And the rest and prep won't be about mitigating any elements for some climactic duel. It'll be about being better able to wipe out those less mystically inclined Druchii at cost.

That's why it's more important to just go for bombing: Because it's going to split more and more of the Druchii into quarreling factions, meaning we won't have to fight through them.

If everyone sees the food production facilities as Free Real Estate, everyones going to fight for them.

All of them.
 
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[X] Pyramid - The more bombs, the more confusion amongst the overseers, the more manipulation, the greater the effect when the trigger is finally pulled. The greater the effect, the worse of Alyssa's position on the Ark will be, and the worse the food crisis would become. Hultressa will already be spending time with this, and has done so already, but the more she does, the better the end result - or worse, if you are Alyssa Voidreaper. The kind of destruction that could occur if properly focused upon could be quite effective if triggered at the right time, even if it is just to force Alyssa to send away some of her strength at the Auction to investigate.
 
Adhoc vote count started by TehChron on Sep 11, 2024 at 8:10 PM, finished with 164 posts and 84 votes.
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[X] Conserving Strength - Spending time running about may well end up being less valuable than Hultressa focusing purely on conserving her strength and building her focus and power for what is to come. Also, apparently, something about scrolls, possibly something about potions. Either way, it would mean no effort put behind anything else but ensuring that Hultressa is able to bring her full focus and power to bear when it comes to the Auction proper.
 
Catpetter1981 said:
[X] Conserving Strength - Spending time running about may well end up being less valuable than Hultressa focusing purely on conserving her strength and building her focus and power for what is to come. Also, apparently, something about scrolls, possibly something about potions. Either way, it would mean no effort put behind anything else but ensuring that Hultressa is able to bring her full focus and power to bear when it comes to the Auction proper.
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Vote is already closed, Torroar just forgot to take down the banner.
 
Ezrin said:
Vote is already closed, Torroar just forgot to take down the banner.
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More that torroar doesn't use the banner feature, and just lets it run by default.

The site is old and has gone through multiple site updates since this quest was created. The banner feature is new-ish, and habits are habits. Just a thing that might need to go into the FAQ.

Does the QM use "Vote banners', that thing at the bottom of a page to tell people if a vote is closed or open?

As new readers might have expectations based on other popular quests making use of the banner.
 
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I think it's going to work. If we are able to get one of the cults still on the arc to do something then that might be enough to set off the political powder keg that is this ark. Another successful farm destruction, especially an unexplained one(because what Druchi would think that human explosive materials would be able to destroy Elf architecture) and if word were to get back to the cult of Estreuth, then that might be enough to get them to act out in the party.
 
Considering how many of our engineers died at Salkalten, it would not be surprising of our research is crippled for quite a few years.
Hopefully that can inspire both options for expansion of schooling and recriutment. Perhaps engineer grants for orphans?
Also, sheilding for our cannons to protect the crew, like we see on WW1 artillery. It is just a metal plate, it is hopefully within our means.
 
Niksol said:
Considering how many of our engineers died at Salkalten, it would not be surprising of our research is crippled for quite a few years.
Hopefully that can inspire both options for expansion of schooling and recriutment. Perhaps engineer grants for orphans?
Also, sheilding for our cannons to protect the crew, like we see on WW1 artillery. It is just a metal plate, it is hopefully within our means.
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this should easy enough to recover from , as these are mostly engineers who are permanently assigned to running guns crews not the ones doing R&D and there are always new graduates being bumped out of the collage pipeline

We should take a page out of Nuln's own book and stop sending large numbers of our engineers to the battlefield , we should set up a dedicated gunnery school to train up gun crews and officers like Nuln does, as you don't need a PHD or even a bachelor's degree to operate a cannon just ask any artillery crew from the 18th century
 
I mean, there were deaths, but not all of them died. A lot of them jumped off the walls to survive and were injured, requiring healing and all that.

As for the other thing, your school is a combination effort. They are Engineers and Gunners, relatively speaking. Gunnery and Engineering, as it were. It would not be impossible to further develop it, however, and split off a secondary school that is purely to train up just gun teams, but you still require engineers in the army to help maintain and repair the more esoteric tech, like the Doomspheres, the Wing-Suits, the volley cannons, and the bigguns. But standard dash and Imperial Great Cannons could be staffed with purely gunnery trained teams.
 
Nno, I'm sorry I didn't elaborate more, you need them to operate those things in the field as well. Either way, you're not getting out of having engineers on the field. You can reduce the number by creating more dedicated gunnery crews that aren't full engineers, but you are still going to have engineers on the field. Nuln still has to do that too, as well. As does the rest of the Empire. Master Engineers are a presence on the battlefield, they're one of the first things you see in the Empire Armybook, for instance, and run the Vapor/Steank Tanks with teams themselves.

But yes, more gunnery crews with less engineers is a possible thing to happen. It would be both Stewardship and Research to develop the newer facilities and schooling regimen properly, but it is doable.
 
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