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But if we have a plan, and multiple Omakes to help flesh out the foe's backstory to our advantage and Ulyssian's tactics as well, our chances get better yes?
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Rihaku
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You can write it in if you like, but none of them are as fast as you (you have Lightning Speed), and they lack perfect disguise charms or Stealth 5. So it would be much slower and guerilla tactics would be much less effective, assuming they are willing to go and don't betray you.
Also, they just wouldn't be that much help. You could kill them all in one turn if you had the motes and WP to spare.
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[X] Siege Warfare
They are all about the story, let's go for maximum drama. Yes, civilians die, but it does us personally the most good. H10, ahoy!
They might not die if you do well enough! Except for the civs on the Fae warpath, but it's completely defensible and justifiable from a military standpoint to choose Siege Warfare. In fact, Head Them Off is the ludicrously crazy and risky decision, because if you do die then the satrapy is fucked, period.
They improve, but you are still at the mercy of the dice. You don't get the ability to affect your foe's backstory by default, though, I'll only accept superlative write-ins to that affect, and not for the Abyssals. How far do you want to push that chance?
[X] Siege Warfare
I think this is our best bet of beating the Fae, and impressing the people, especially after a bit of further thought made me realize that taking the Legion out of the city would likely ruin the city's morale, and wouldn't do goo things for the Legion's either, given how things have been going for them recently.
On a related note, how is the city's stocks of iron doing?
I think this is our best bet of beating the Fae, and impressing the people, especially after a bit of further thought made me realize that taking the Legion out of the city would likely ruin the city's morale, and wouldn't do goo things for the Legion's either, given how things have been going for them recently.
On a related note, how is the city's stocks of iron doing?
[X] Siege Warfare
Get as much propaganda from a good Stalingrad.
Get as much propaganda from a good Stalingrad.
From what you are saying it sounds as if recruiting one of the more social Dragon-Blooded to act as our herald might be a good idea. Even though terrestrial social charms are much weaker than the equivalent solar charms they can still be incredibly influential. Recruiting a herald to frequently act as our mouthpiece seems like it would prevent us from having to either spend experience expanding our social capabilities or compete in a field which we are not prepared to enter.
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Could be a good idea, though you'd have to convince one to be loyal to you when your own social skills are meh. If any social primary DBs exist among this group; they're mostly soldiers and administrators.
If you could get Nilul to come over here...
They've got a good amount, though using iron against Iron Sislay may or may not be a good idea. It's not terribly relevant, though, Fae can be killed with normal weapons just fine.
This may be more like Thermopylae than Stalingrad, though Leonidas would have the stats of a Servant or something.
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[X] Siege Warfare
So sad we cant coopt them
I don't even know if Ulyssian would do that if he could!
It wouldn't really be an advantageous fight for the Legion without their fortifications and stuff, since they'd be tired after forced marching to a battle, but I suppose you could write-in a compromise option. The main issue is that it wouldn't really contain any of the guerilla tactics of Heading Off the Fae.
The Legion aren't locals, the only local military forces you have are the ~1,000 Luseng militia, and they suck.
Hm... you could wait to engage the Fae until they are visible from the city, but that wouldn't save nearly as many lives.
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Oh no I didn't mean for the Abyssals, they're pretty clearly worked up by you already. I meant more for manipulating the Fair Folk, since we would be writing stories about them and they are literally made of stories. I thought the thematics would be nice. Weird, but nice.
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There are no shortage of enemies to assure us eternal renown, even if we manage to go murder all the fae in the woods. I really don't think we need to wait for Siege to gain fame and morale. Even if we go in there and stealth-kill a bunch of cataphracts and the behemoths, they'll still see us killing hobgoblins by their thousands when the endless fae army makes it closer to Luseng.
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I think 3E Fae are not the hollow voids / p-zombies of 2E, they are actual characters halfway between Wyld and Creation. They may be cruel and amoral, and have extremely underdeveloped facilities for genuine emotion, but they're still characters.
Hm, I guess I would allow it, but only in the case of superlative write-ins, and I reserve the right to change anything without notice, because there is a backstory behind this Freehold and its characters as well, though I didn't detail them as much as the Abyssals, who were more likely to survive...
Rihaku
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Hm, it depends whether you mote-tap yourself killing off the behemoths, cataphracts, and hero unit. Even with your improved mote economy, it's somewhat likely, since previously Uly mote-tapped himself just killing one strong hero unit or group of heroes. That's why you're leaving the hobgoblins to the Legion rather than also killing them. However, if he still has lots of motes after killing all the high-quality troops, he would turn to the hobgoblins and break them right then and there, so as to save the maximum number of lives!
Basically, Head Them Off Uly cares about saving lives over personal glory, and either thinks the risks are acceptable or thinks that he can take the Fae. Siege Warfare Uly wants to improve morale by one of the only ways he knows how (visible action), and wants to secure victory even if it'll cost some civilian lives.
Luseng area map rough draft
http://i.imgur.com/IDK7qbm.png
More time tomorrow to do more drafting and fix everything like the fae freehold area.
Based it on Fajad's area from the 3rd ed map withsome rough changes according to the writing
http://i.imgur.com/IDK7qbm.png
More time tomorrow to do more drafting and fix everything like the fae freehold area.
Based it on Fajad's area from the 3rd ed map withsome rough changes according to the writing
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[X] Siege Warfare
We wanted a powerbase, this is how we get one. The common people will die in droves, sure, but the they're not the ones we need to save and inspire to have a chance at turning this around; the Legions are the most relevant force available. Part of the reasoning for passing up Three Kingdoms was that we could be a hero. So, let's go save the day.
We wanted a powerbase, this is how we get one. The common people will die in droves, sure, but the they're not the ones we need to save and inspire to have a chance at turning this around; the Legions are the most relevant force available. Part of the reasoning for passing up Three Kingdoms was that we could be a hero. So, let's go save the day.
[X] Siege Warfare
While Uly would care for the common people. He'll understand that people die in war. Until he has his perfect world, he has to work with what he has.
While Uly would care for the common people. He'll understand that people die in war. Until he has his perfect world, he has to work with what he has.
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The common people will also be inspired by his actions, though! Expecting that they will all die, miraculously only some of them do!
Even better! Really, preserving our own power and maximizing our chances of getting out of this situation alive will save the most lives in the long run.
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Speaking of which, I'm just wondering, why don't we have Growing Ambition as one of our titles? I thought we got The Operative as our training choice?
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No need for Titles to reference Evocations, since they're all my personal homebrew.
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That is a compelling point, but for now we need the loyalty and hopes of our soldiers more than we need the fear of the Fae. For now.
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[X] Siege Warfare
Urban warfare is already one of the most brutal forms of conflict imaginable, and that's before we add zombies and fae to the equation, to say nothing of how this is one of those situations where fighting to the death is the expected fate of the defeated. It's going to be horrifying, grinding, and relentless.
So, of course, I must vote for it.
Urban warfare is already one of the most brutal forms of conflict imaginable, and that's before we add zombies and fae to the equation, to say nothing of how this is one of those situations where fighting to the death is the expected fate of the defeated. It's going to be horrifying, grinding, and relentless.
So, of course, I must vote for it.
I suppose it depends on whether we care more about impressing the Fae or improving the morale of the Ghost-Water Legion. If the Raksha hordes are broken in open battle, who cares what they do or do not believe? Name recognition is mostly relevant for future battles; the surest sign of being Odyssial is being victorious.