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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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Crake said:
How about some of those Elemental weapons we have laying around?

Anyway, we have five Sword Ships retrofitted and crewed by the Shaitan BTW that we never did anything with, maybe we should have them assisting Yrten?

And I guess we're scrapping these captured ships for the metal?
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What are their capabilities again? Both the ships and the weapons?

And yeah, I'd definitely scrap the Shield Ship and probably the Sword Ships too.
Goldfish said:
I could probably squeeze a Brilliant Barrier Projector into next month's crafting schedule, too.
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If we want to install some Steam Projectors, we would also need some Decanters. Though we could also buy those off-plane.

Could you give me an overview of what you would suggest to install?
 
DragonParadox said:
That works yeah, although refitting it will take more time.
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He can go on break for a few months, giving us time to retrofit both his ships and all captured Sword Ships as well. Then he can return with his own fleet.
Azel said:
What are their capabilities again? Both the ships and the weapons?

And yeah, I'd definitely scrap the Shield Ship and probably the Sword Ships too.
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Turtle Ship we're absolutely taking apart, but the Sword Ship wasn't particularly valuable in its materials IIRC.
 
Azel said:
What are their capabilities again? Both the ships and the weapons?

And yeah, I'd definitely scrap the Shield Ship and probably the Sword Ships too.

If we want to install some Steam Projectors, we would also need some Decanters. Though we could also buy those off-plane.

Could you give me an overview of what you would suggest to install?
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Here are the captured weapons we've taken from Efreeti ships.

Weapons
  • 6 Acid Casters (Cast Acid Spit, uses Acid Splash, Bound Earth Elemental)
  • 5 Slumber Bows (Ballistas that empower bolts with Arcane Slumber, Bound ???)
  • 1 Swarm Spitters (Spits out a swarm of beetles designed to coup de grace helpless targets)
  • 20 Ethereal Lances (10d6 Force and 10d6 Sonic DC 22 Fort for half, Bound ???)
They haven't been used or reverse engineered because most of their power comes from bound Elementals or other Outsiders, and on top of it being against their will, the experience is apparently extremely unpleasant for them when the weapons are used, IIRC. I really want to work out how to produce cheap Ethereal Lances without relying on an enslaved Elemental, but it's not been a high priority and DP told us that without them, our versions would be less effective.

I'm not sure if Steam Projectors would do much to help the Golden Wind, not when the majority of their operations are on the Plane of Fire and pretty much every enemy they encounter is immune to fire. They could serve as a good visual obstruction, I guess, but that goes both ways.

As for upgrades to the Golden Wind, I would try to keep it looking as close to its normal appearance as possible. If we're going to armor or reinforce it, that should be done on the interior so that its not readily apparent just how tough the ship might be. We could install a Brilliant Barrier Projector internally as well and have it operated by someone on deck.

We could probably upgrade the ship's figurehead, too, in order to give it the same 1/Day Entropic Shield effect that our vessels have standard.
 
Goldfish said:
I'm not sure if Steam Projectors would do much to help the Golden Wind, not when the majority of their operations are on the Plane of Fire and pretty much every enemy they encounter is immune to fire. They could serve as a good visual obstruction, I guess, but that goes both ways.
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Not really. While the heat aspect of the damage is lost, it is instead weighed up by hitting fire based beings with an extremely fast beam of water. DP confirmed that both elementals and Efreeti would take all damage from them as bludgeoning damage, instead of half bludgeoning, half fire. Jury is out on fire-giants, salamanders and especially things like Genasi, who are far less elementally charged, but they would be far from useless.
 
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Zioneer said:
There's gotta be something with monsters and lions, that's very on brand for Cersei. At least one pet manticore.
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What if instead of killing Cersei, we hand her over to the flesh forge to be turned into some Manticore style abomination, forever trapped in a disgusting and monstrous body, unable to do anything about it, forced to watch her own body move to the whims of another?
 
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Imperial Airforce
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    • Imperial Airforce​

    The youngest branch oft the Imperial military, using vessels that are equipped with the newly developed Anti-Gravity Engines to achieve flight. It is the first large scale formation of flight capable combatants since the dragonrider formations of the Valyrian Freehold, and probably the first in the history of the Plane of Balance that uses vehicles instead of magical beasts. The combat crafts of the Imperial Airforce can be divided in the large Anti-Grav Vessels, using multiple full scale AG-Engines to lift heavily armed and armed hulls weighing thousands of tons, and the nimbler fighter crafts, which use scaled down engines and focus on speed and acceleration instead of thick armor. In battles, larger crafts will usually exploit their Steam Cannon armaments to attack enemies from more then a kilometre away, using both kinetic projectiles and alchemical incendiary or explosive projectiles. In contrast, fighters will usually be used to conduct bombing runs on large enemy formations or installations, or engage hostile air assets with high speed hit and run attacks.

    While still young, the Imperial Airforce has already made major contributions to multiple military campaigns, successfully deploying in the Burning of the Golden Company, flying sorties alongside Djinn formations in the War of the Three Spheres, and dealing heavy losses to the enemy in the Sarnor Campaign, with the Burning of Sarnath one of the most well known missions conducted by the airforce.

    Details on the equipment of the Imperial Airforce
    Charactersheets for important members of the Imperial Airforce (TBD)

    Current formations and deployments (as of 294-05-01) (assignments pending vote)
    FormationAssetsBaseMissionNotes
    1st Fighter Squadron "Knights of the Blue"1x Interplanar Whispering BrazierFieldbasecommanded by Lucerys 'Skywalker' of Tataelos,
    deployed in the Ymeri Campaign
    - 1st Flight4x Wyvern Type-A
    - 2nd Flight4x Wyvern Type-A
    - 3rd Flight4x Wyvern Type-A
    - 4th Flight2x Wyvern Type-A
    2nd Fighter Squadron "Cloud Chasers"1x Interplanar Whispering BrazierFieldbasedeployed in the Ymeri Campaign
    - 1st Flight4x Wyvern Type-A
    - 2nd Flight4x Wyvern Type-A
    - 3rd Flight4x Wyvern Type-A
    - 4th Flight2x Wyvern Type-A
    3rd Fighter Squadron1x Interplanar Whispering BrazierWesthavenReconnaissance flights of Westeros
    - 1st Flight4x Wyvern Type-C
    - 2nd Flight4x Wyvern Type-C
    - 3rd Flight4x Wyvern Type-C
    - 4th Flight4x Wyvern Type-C
    4th Fighter Squadron1x Interplanar Whispering BrazierWesthavenTraining flights in the Astral Plane
    - 1st Flight0x Wyvern Type-A
    5th Fighter Squadron1x Interplanar Whispering BrazierWesthavenPatrol of the Narrow Sea
    - 1st Flight4x Wyvern Type-C
    - 2nd Flight2x Wyvern Type-C
    1st Bomber Squadron1x Interplanar Whispering BrazierFieldbasedeployed in the Ymeri Campaign
    - 1st Flight4x Manticore
    - 2nd Flight4x Manticore
    - 3rd Flight4x Manticore
    - 4th Flight4x Manticore
    1st Training Squadron1x Interplanar Whispering BrazierSorcerers DeepCrew Training
    - 1st Flight4x Wyvern Type-B
    - 2nd Flight4x Wyvern Type-B
    - 3rd Flight0x Manticore
    - 4th Flight3x Wyvern Type-B
    1st Battlegroup "Moonchaser"Fieldbasedeployments:
    - Golden Company
    - Sarnor Campaign
    - Ymeri Campaign
    - IMV MoonchaserMoonchaser Type Acommanded by Captain Moonsong (Luminal Sprite),
    first vessel to reach the edge of the atmosphere
    - Moonchaser Carrier Flight4x Wyvern Type-B
    - IMV GladiusGladius Class
    - IMV SpathaGladius Class
    2nd Battlegroup "Dawnstar"Fieldbasedeployments:
    - Sarnor Campaign
    - Ymeri Campaign

    re-discoverer of the Targaryen Islands
    - IMV DawnstarMoonchaser Type Acommanded by Captain Tirael the Tireless (Archon),
    boarding crew commanded by an Erinyes
    - Dawnstar Carrier Flight4x Wyvern Type-B
    3rd Battlegroup "Duskrunner"Fieldbasedeployments:
    - Sarnor Campaign
    - Plane of Fire raiding
    - Ymeri Campaign
    - IMV DuskrunnerMoonchaser Type Acommanded by Captain Sepet the Sharp
    - Duskrunner Carrier Flight4x Wyvern Type-B
    4th Battlegroup "Dauntless"Fieldbasedeployments:
    - Ymeri Campaign
    - IMV DauntlessDauntless Classcommanded by Captain Aran Stassah

    Capital Vessels Under Construction
    Vessel ClassPlanned CompletionName
    Illustrious-Class294-05 ACIMV Illustrious
    Gladius-Class294-06 ACIMV Paramerion
    Gladius-Class294-06 ACIMV Makhaira
    Dauntless-Class294-07 ACIMV Valiant
     
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    • Decided this was a good moment to stop procrastinating about this and setting up the airforce info-post.

    @Goldfish, could you add 5 inter-planar Braziers next month? We forgot to equip the air-force command with those.

    @Crake, are those five Sword Ships air assets or naval assets? If the former, I'd add them here.
     
    Azel said:
    Decided this was a good moment to stop procrastinating about this and setting up the airforce info-post.

    @Goldfish, could you add 5 inter-planar Braziers next month? We forgot to equip the air-force command with those.

    @Crake, are those five Sword Ships air assets or naval assets? If the former, I'd add them here.
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    We've already got 8 Interplanar Whispering Braziers in stock.
     
    So, uh, should I take Siduri and Yrten off the next month's raiding, while the ship's undergoing repairs, then?
    I can re-assign them somewhere else easy.
     
    Azel said:
    Decided this was a good moment to stop procrastinating about this and setting up the airforce info-post.

    @Goldfish, could you add 5 inter-planar Braziers next month? We forgot to equip the air-force command with those.

    @Crake, are those five Sword Ships air assets or naval assets? If the former, I'd add them here.
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    IIRC, they can fly.
     
    @Azel Seeing as how I am feeling very much like the Treasury Department when eyeing up that Turtle ship for the chopping block (each one is worth over 4.5 million IM as scrap), how much admantine will Yrten need to deck out his ship? Can we just use hardened adamantine-steel alloy? It's what the Efreeti do. And the Golden Wind IIRC seems like a large sailing ship, like around the size of the Queen Rhaella, if that helps?
     
    Azel said:
    Ugh....

    @DragonParadox, did you eve give us a vague outline of the capabilities of the Sword and Shield Ships?
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    That was part of the reason they were included in our first barebones plans for a raid on the Living Brass Mint.

    We could reasonably get them and the ones just captured retrofitted as part of Yrten's growing fleet, while having actual Imperial assets deployed elsewhere.
    Crake said:
    @Azel Seeing as how I am feeling very much like the Treasury Department when eyeing up that Turtle ship for the chopping block (each one is worth over 4.5 million IM as scrap), how much admantine will Yrten need to deck out his ship? Can we just use hardened adamantine-steel alloy? It's what the Efreeti do. And the Golden Wind IIRC seems like a large sailing ship, like around the size of the Queen Rhaella, if that helps?
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    it should be significantly smaller than the Queen Rhaella. Our former flagship was deliberately oversized.
     
    Azel said:
    Ugh....

    @DragonParadox, did you eve give us a vague outline of the capabilities of the Sword and Shield Ships?
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    The Sword and Shield Ships can fly, but the Turtle Ships are naval vessels which float on the oil of the Burning Sea.
    Crake said:
    @Azel Seeing as how I am feeling very much like the Treasury Department when eyeing up that Turtle ship for the chopping block (each one is worth over 4.5 million IM as scrap), how much admantine will Yrten need to deck out his ship? Can we just use hardened adamantine-steel alloy? It's what the Efreeti do. And the Golden Wind IIRC seems like a large sailing ship, like around the size of the Queen Rhaella, if that helps?
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    I'm not sure if the Golden Wind is worth sheathing in that much Adamantine, or if it would even be worth it from a performance standpoint. If the ship wasn't built for it, that much additional weight could play havoc with its speed and maneuverability. I was thinking of adding discrete Adamantine armor paneling within the ship, along with structural reinforcements, to increase its resilience without impacting flight performance or making it appear uparmored. Not being an obvious warship probably helps Yrten in a lot of extraplanar ports of call.
     
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