I just noticed this ward foils divination spells which have a chance of failure. Would asking a god (Syrax,Rhllor,etc) to divine the place with remote sense could work we can have one of the shadowcat speak rhllor's name in there so he could see or we can ask the old gods work?
Judging from the apparent severe case of enemy competence here, that seems rather unlikely.
I dont think Baiting could work since they are already paranoid for even a small suspicion of intrusion which could make them all go into red alert and move the wards etc
I think including huge amount of fleshforge creations here could help massively as bringing our cleric, sorcerer creatures to render heavy magical aid could hopefully drown them in static.
We could also scrape off most of the trash with Forceward and Hand of the Faithful leaving us with things that are immune to magic or can make the save. If we get scrolls of HotF we could send in the cats to screw with their troop movements as we launch the attack.
The dispersal ward can only focus on dispelling a few spells per round so attacking them and bringing in the airforce to launch the attack at the same time simultaneously will be effective. The beetle bombs wont workWe could also scrape off most of the trash with Forceward and Hand of the Faithful leaving us with things that are immune to magic or can make the save. If we get scrolls of HotF we could send in the cats to screw with their troop movements as we launch the attack.
Sure they could counterspell it easily, but if they pop up all over the place in the middle of a chaotic attack I wouldn't expect it to happen smoothly or efficiently. In terms of bottling up trash and sowing confusion across the fort I think it could do the job.
We could also try planting some Imploding Stones on support pillars and similar locations to try and physically block motion on various areas as well, if we have time to buy them.
If we're going to do this in the future we should make some Moldwretches with a brown mold link. We could arm them with sultan's tribute style munitions and let them start their very own ecological disaster.
How big a force can we take in to infiltrate without triggering the reinforcements?
Wait, this is literally next to the CoB?
I don't think that Dimensional Lock would interfere with an open Gate at all, given that they stay open even when you turn off the magic on a Demiplane they lead to. Also, that still means reaching the innermost areas first and the Dispersal Ward would most likely snuff out an 8th level spell and immediately cause maximum alert, since there ain't exactly a lot of innocuous reasons for an unknown high-level caster to muck around in the high-security section.
That pretty much hinges on the defenders being both paranoid enough to go heavily after the potential intruders and careless enough to not call for reinforcements or to evacuate the ward stones. I mean, what would Viserys say if the Imperial palace guards would want to pull people from the maximum security laboratories to better deal with an altercation in the guest wing?
This place is almost impregnable and we could risk our entire party's lives if we infiltrate the place
Is there any mention of archmages champions enemy forces composition etc?
I feel like we are going in mostly blind.
