I think this may be part of what Execute and Reimagined's model is missing. There are skyship voters who may view Pickle's requests as a compromise to stave off the armour and armour voters who feel it necessary to adopt Pickle's requests as a compromise against the skyship - but there are also voters who dislike the idea of an option that doesn't go for a single, consolidated reward on principle and are thus willing to compromise on either the armour or the skyship to deny Pickle's requests. Then throw into the mix voters for Pickle's request who lean towards either armour or skyship as a second choice. My suspicion is that these overlapping contingencies cascading from one another have played a large role in making this new stage of the vote so... Ah... Dynamic.
I mean sure but while wading into sea of minions and being cannonball that never stops is one of the bonuses it offers, let us also not forget that we exchanged blows with greater servant of slaanesh. Sometimes you need to face enemy heroes that aren't really susceptible to assassination, and the armour would help there too.
Mathilde can still get enchanted We-silk robes. Unless pickle's plan wins, because then she'll have some already.
That's a bit like saying someone is a named person. It'd be far weirder if he didn't have a name.
And how often does someone like Asarnil fight alongside us. Because I am pretty sure we shared battlefield like three times but fought without him dozens of times, and while that was the only time we met greater daemon/daemon prince, as time goes on, chaos might strengthen enough to field more of such monstrosities.
I am quite confident that, no matter how sentimental the value, the thread will not choose to invest AP into enchanting We-silk robes if Mathilde already has statistically superior armour (especially if they're already investing AP into training with that armour).
The wargame also doesn't consider him a star dragon, because they didn't exist at the time and doesn't give him any abilties beyond other dragons (and in fact his stats are very slightly worse than the generic equivalent). Being named on the tabletop doesn't mean you're inherently better, though it does tend to mean the lore around your statblock says you're better, because GW want to sell people the model the statblock is attached to.
The whole point of the Armour of Von Tarnus is that AA stacks with it. That's one of the things that makes people want it. Therefore all the robes would need to do is be better than Mathilde's current set for it to be useful, and presumably if you want to enchant them, you already think that.
If the Armour of Von Tarnus wins, then that fills the armor slot. The Aethyric Armour will come from Mathilde casting it, and there will be no need to enchant robes that we cannot use.
I'd like to point out that "we" the thread didn't in fact "decide" to engage the daemon, mathilde decided that on her own, with our input being that we voted to put mathilde on 'fire support'--in a vote where we in fact had 'MATHILDE: Seeking to physically attack Greater Daemons and Daemon Princes' as an option. So unless we manage to avoid mathilde being on a battlefield with a greater daemon on it, then "mathilde decides to go into melee with a greater daemon" is in fact something that can happen without thread input. Same way that "attack a very old and skilled vampire in his office in melee" wasn't a direct vote. Mathilde, in part from our past votes when we *were* given the option to decide things like that, is quite willing to go up against powerful enemies in melee without stopping to ask her subconscious to vote on it. I dont think its the *best* argument for the armor, but it isn't niche, imo.
I've been in quests that have used Ranked Choice voting. There's a reason no one uses it.
