Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
I'll take a dozen!
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Please, in gods name tell me that's a meme and not where Trump got his asinine catchphrase.
- Location
- florida
If I may inquire?
What's the plan for getting them to the battlefield?
Teleportation? Portals? Imperial roads?
Spider climb might allow them to just... hang onto the outside of the bulkier aircraft?
The idea of dropping hundreds of spiders over something has a certain appeal.
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ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
Both of those came originally from Ronald Reagan, so if it's asinine then it was originally RR's asinine line.
I'm honestly glad that in this game magic items are not restricted to pre-epic price tags without the necessary CL. That's usually the bottleneck for D&D settings to stay stuck in pseudo medieval era instead of returning to the great magic empire from the past.
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- Germany
Hanging on the hull of AG-vessel would not really work at higher speeds. They would just fall off. Though they could be air-dropped with Feather Fall from cargo bays. We don't really have a dropship yet.If I may inquire?
What's the plan for getting them to the battlefield?
Teleportation? Portals? Imperial roads?
Spider climb might allow them to just... hang onto the outside of the bulkier aircraft?
The idea of dropping hundreds of spiders over something has a certain appeal.
Overall, they would be moved exactly as the Legion they are attached to. Might be a bit cramped for the bigger ones, but that's the price when you want walking tanks.
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- florida
Thank you.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
@Azel Remember when we talked about mobile platforms to house cannon batteries? I'm starting to think a design for those would be better than static positions around a city's harbor. Then it could rotate and hit anything approaching above or below, and you could move them around and stuff to where they might be needed. Or you could land them and they could be part of temporary defensive fortifications.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Railway Guns seem to be the most 'reasonable' solution for city defense to me, considering our road-building tendencies.
Railway gun - Wikipedia
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- Germany
That's basically a Manticore. Also, I'm not sure why you would focus the fixed emplacements near the harbor. They should go to high areas, like hills and cliffs, so that they can maximize their firing arc.
In general, a properly built turret should be able to fire in a 80° arc vertically and 300° arc horizontally, so they can engage airborne targets and attacks from most directions on the ground.
That would work too. We would just need to design some armored and armed trains, once we finally got the locomotive going.Railway Guns seem to be the most 'reasonable' solution for city defense to me, considering our road-building tendencies.
Railway gun - Wikipedia
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
That's a good idea.Railway Guns seem to be the most 'reasonable' solution for city defense to me, considering our road-building tendencies.
Railway gun - Wikipedia
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
I blame Destark for drawing them on his map like that... I don't think we spend much time contemplating our local defenses. Not that we usually need to, since the city is 90% not carbonized ash right now based on weight of our reputation alone.
- Location
- Germany
Not yet. We lack the time-delay fuses necessary for flak ammo.
Blame me?
I asked where they were and got told they were being used to protect the harbour, that's why they're on cliffs etc along the shoreline.
- Location
- United States
Regarding the defensive cannon batteries, we can outright build towers for them. The hardened stone is more than up to the task of handling the recoil, and we can give the cannons a hell of a vantage point.Blame me?
- Location
- Germany
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Part MMMDCXXII: Battle of Smith's Sorrows, Part Two
Battle of Smith's Sorrows, Part Two
Twenty-Third of the Second Month 294 AC
Zherys did not trust the enemy, a natural thing perhaps given that they were called that and not a guest one had over for tea, but a careful read of military history might leave one surprised by how many generals had been lead to their ruin by trusting the foe. Trusting them to be foolish or predictable, trusting them to act or react a certain way. Almost as many as the number of people who got killed over tea when they did not watch the pouring properly.
Dragons of steel and dragons of flesh flew above the walls of spears and from their throats spewed forth seven torrents of flame to make unliving pyres of the soldiers advancing. Though a wall of arrows rose to meet from from behind the first ranks of enemy it hardly seemed to matter. Two of the heralds lost their minute helpers and beneath Zherys Caraxes roared more in rage than pain when a few of the accursed arrows struck home in his belly. The dead fought the dead under the furies' arrows and the front line wavered and rippled like cedar saplings under a southern storm. Though hollow bones knew no fear they could still break and they could still burn.
2 Elemental Wyrmlings Destroyed
Chants rose from below, half prayer half spiteful curse. Priests that had been hidden before now shone with black light as they tried to turn from working upon the sky turned foe. Something was moving and Lord Malarys was already lifting his own hand and voice to deny the working. It was pleasant, Zherys noted, to work besides competent allies, ones he did not have to personally seek out besides.
Alas in this instance competence alone was not enough, he could feel the magic building in the air as the smoke of the dead grew ever darker, ever thicker until it seemed not smoke but cloud. The Sky Smith showed his hand again. Great wings opened from the poisoned cloud and eyes of lightning bright looked down upon the field. A roar like thunder shook the air as the apparition spat a bolt of lightning, enveloping Caraxes as well as the pair of erinyes flying at he's flanks. While the life-leaching chill within it had no power over him neither the erinyes nor the dragon were so fortunate.
Caraxes and 2 Erinyes take 39 Damage
An elemental seeming in draconic form, they actually made our own actions part of their ritual, the part of the Lord of the Mysterium that was always seeking answers to strange new magics noted, impressed in spite of himself. Though he doubted a storm of death and ruin would long outlive the battle unlike the lesser dead who had been 'sacrificed' in its making, but as a weapon of desperation it was quite impressive, particularly as the ritual of its making could not be more than a few days old since dragons and heralds had been used to devastating effect in the Battle of the Dead Fields.
"Don't let it kill any dragons or anything dragon-like, that's what it feeds on!" the young sorceress from the Sunset Lands shouted, and Zherys was inclined to listen if left at that for she had insights into death and the dead others could not dream of, hard bought. But at her next words made his blood ran cold. "It will make more like itself the more it kills!"
How does the left flank air wing dead with the new threat?
[] Handle it themselves
-[] Write in help
[] Call in aid from the reserve
-[] Write in
[] Call in support from Queen Naamaru's mages
-[] Write in
[] Write in
OOC: Normally a necromantal has to kill elementals to make more like itself, this one is keyed off the concept of dragons, so the more dragons or draconic beings it kills the more the sky will be filled with murderous storm monsters. In Zherys' opinion none of these creations will outlast the day, but that is a rather academic point since you have to fight it/them now.
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- Germany
It will likely try to hunt dragons, so best to pull those back and let it chase them while firing at it with the Manticores. It's a big HP bag, but it can't withstand concentrated cannon fire and it has neither the magic to change that, nor the speed to be any danger to the Manticores.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.Battle of Smith's Sorrows, Part Two
Twenty-Third of the Second Month 294 AC
Zherys did not trust the enemy, a natural thing perhaps given that they were called that and not a guest one had over for tea, but a careful read of military history might leave one surprised by how many generals had been lead to their ruin by trusting the foe. Trusting them to be foolish, or predictable, trusting them to act or react a certain way. Almost as many as the number of people who got killed over tea when they did not watch the pouring properly.
Dragons of steel and dragons of flesh flew above the walls of spears and from their throats spewed forth seven torrents of flame to make unliving pyres of the advancing soldiers. Though a wall of arrows rose to meet them from behind the first ranks of the enemy, it hardly seemed to matter. Two of the heralds lost their minute helpers and beneath Zherys, Caraxes roared more in rage then pain when a few of the accursed arrows struck home in his belly. The dead fought the dead under the Furies' arrows and the front line wavered and rippled like cedar saplings under the a southern storm. Though hollow bones knew no fear, they could still break and they could still burn.
2 Elemental Wyrmlings Destroyed
Chants rose from below, half prayer half spiteful curse, priests that had been hidden before now shone with black light as they tried to turn their workings upon the sky bound foe. Something was moving and Lord Malarys was already lifting his own hand and voice to deny the working. It was pleasant, Zherys noted, to work besides competent allies, ones he did not have to personally seek out besides.
Alas, in this instance competence alone was not enough. He could feel the magic building in the air as the smoke of the dead grew ever darker, ever thicker, until it seemed not smoke but cloud. The Sky Smith showed his hand again. Great wings opened from the poisoned cloud and eyes of lightning bright looked down upon the field. A roar like thunder shook the air as the apparition spat a bolt of lightning enveloping Caraxes as well as the pair of Erinyes flying at its flanks. While the life-leaching chill within it had no power over him neither Erinyes nor the dragon were so fortunate.
Caraxes and 2 Erinyes take 39 Damage
An elemental seeming in draconic form, they actually made your own actions part of their ritual, the part of the lord of the Mysterium that was always seeking answers to strange new magics noted, impressed in spite of himself. Though he doubted a storm of death and ruin would long outlive the battle, unlike the lesser dead who had been 'sacrificed' in its making, but as a weapon of desperation it was quite impressive, particularly as the ritual of its making could not be more than a few days old, since dragons and heralds had been used to devastating effect in the Battle of the Dead Fields.
"Don't let it kill any dragons or anything dragon-like, that's what it feeds on!" the young Sorceress form the Sunset Lands shouted, and Zherys was inclined to listen if left at that, for she had hard earned insights into death and the dead which others could not dream of. But at her next words, his blood ran cold. "It will make more like itself the more it kills."
How does the left flank air wing dead with the new threat?
[] Handle it themselves
-[] Write in help
[] Call in aid from the reserve
-[] Write in
[] Call in support from Queen Naamaru's mages
-[] Write in
[] Write in
OOC: Normally a necromental has to kill elementals to make more like itself, this one is keyed off the concept of dragons, so the more dragons or draconic beings it kills the more the sky will be filled with murderous storm monsters. In Zherys' opinion, none of these creations will outlast the day, but that is a rather academic point since you have to fight it/them now. Not yet edited.
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- Location
- Germany
Control Winds SLA.
If we pull back and let the thing get close it can throw much of our army in dissaray, if a dispelling fails at the wrong moment.