One Ant Versus the Heavens (Ant Cultivation Quest)
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Last update it was 12 +25 = 37 which rolls over to 17. 17 + 33 = 50. Which rolls over to 10 with two meters gained. Defeating the myrmidons gained another two meters. Then you lost three meters to cultivation actions. So total is +1 for 12.
I did miss an extra +6 from last turn on the frontlines though.
Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
Looking over the current plan, do we need to do Day 105 cultivation? It needs to be done every 5 days, which means Day 102 > Day 107, and then we can fit it an extra Frontline action for Day 110 (since the next required Shake is Day 112).
Observation: When using Blood Qi, it should be used to add Frontline actions to a Cultivation day. We lost -3 War progress from doing 3 cultivation actions (over 5 days) last turn - to counter that we can fight while cultivating through the Vigorous Blood ability.
Also just to check, what cultivation stage is our Rival at? @Arcanestomper
Proposing a v3 plan to maximize war gains so we can maybe finish it this time, main difference is shuffling around Cultivation days. With this schedule we're effectively fighting for 11-13 days straight and only spending 1 day on Cultivation, but still keeping 4 cultivation actions total (by exploiting the Vigorous Blood ability):
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v3
-[X] War Strategy: Create "Forbidden Zones" as we fight in order to funnel the enemy into strategic chokepoints and traps/prepared ground.
-[X] Day 101: Fight on the Frontline [10/20] = (Get 1 Blood Qi)
-[X] Day 102: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-[X] Days 103-106: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Day 107 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Days 108-111: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Day 112 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Days 113-114: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Day 115: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Spend any remaining Blood Qi: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
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CedeTheBees
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It just makes it easier to keep track if we keep them at multiples of 5.
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v4
-[X] War Strategy: Create "Forbidden Zones" as we fight in order to funnel the enemy into strategic chokepoints and traps/prepared ground.
-[X] Day 101: Fight on the Frontline [10/20] = (Get 1 Blood Qi)
-[X] Day 102: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-[X] Days 103-106: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Day 107 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Days 108-111: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Day 112 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Days 113-114: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Day 115: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Spend any remaining Blood Qi: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
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Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
Sounds good, I'll edit my v3 plan with your changes if you want to switch to that, so we the vote isn't split even further between very similar plans lol.
For those reading, Plan: Breaking Through v3 is now the same as v4. Just tweaked to add Day 113-115.
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CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
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That's half the fun tho
SleepyCaterpilar
Just a Rapariga
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v4
WhoTheHeckity
But no one ever asks HowTheHeckity
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- Murica 🦅
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v5
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[X] Plan: Breaking Through v5
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Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
Just realized a crucial oversight with the plan: cultivation stages doesn't affect the war progress (flat d20) so there's no need to rush it. Cultivation gives us more HP and combat dice, but that doesn't do anything except for cultivator battles. The war progress still hinges on our daily actions (flat d20), which our cultivation doesn't affect that.
Basically, we don't need to rush the next stage, just let it rise naturally from the Automatic cultivation.
Could I suggest an edit for your v4 plan to remove this inefficiency? Day 102's extra action should be switched to Fighting (instead of 2x cultivation) to avoid losing -1 war progress. Hitting the next stage won't affect the war directly, and skipping a day of fighting means -1 meter (an full 0/20 frontline action).
Late epiphany, but I'm going to suggest another plan version because of this:
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v5
-[X] War Strategy: Create "Forbidden Zones" as we fight in order to funnel the enemy into strategic chokepoints and traps/prepared ground.
-[X] Days 96-99: Fight on the Frontline [19/20]
-[X] Day 100 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [19/20]
-[X] Days 101-104: Fight on the Frontline [19/20]
-[X] Day 105 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] 2nd Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [19/20]
Simple and organized in 5 day batches. No war progress lost because we'll be fighting all 10 days (including Cultivation days) with Vigorous Blood. No need to rush Cultivation, because it doesn't affect the war progress. I hope it's not too late for this plan, it's the most efficient iteration yet
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CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
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I can dig it
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v5
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v5
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- Anchorage, Alaska
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v5
.... Just noticed all of the plans got the dates wrong, it's supposed to start with Day 96 not Day 101 smh. Gonna edit the v5 plan to span from Day 96-105 = 10 days total.
[x] Plan: Breaking Through v5
- [x] War Strategy: Create "Forbidden Zones" as we fight in order to funnel the enemy into strategic chokepoints and traps/prepared ground.
- [x] Days 101-104: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Day 105 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-- [x] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Days 106-109: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Day 110 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
- [x] Days 111-114: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Day 115: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-- [x] Spend any remaining Blood Qi: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] War Strategy: Create "Forbidden Zones" as we fight in order to funnel the enemy into strategic chokepoints and traps/prepared ground.
- [x] Days 101-104: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Day 105 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-- [x] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Days 106-109: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Day 110 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
- [x] Days 111-114: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Day 115: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-- [x] Spend any remaining Blood Qi: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
@Arcanestomper I think I found an error in Day 80's frontline progress. The status didn't change from the previous Day 75 status:
So we're missing +9 extra Frontline progress, if you want to add it to the current bar, since it's similar numbers at 10/20
This is Day 75.
This is Day 80. We rolled 49 progress on Frontline actions so 10/20 + 49 = 59/20 = 19/20.
So we're missing +9 extra Frontline progress, if you want to add it to the current bar, since it's similar numbers at 10/20
It takes 100 war progress to generate 1 blood qi, so there's a good chance we don't have any on day 110, and a much higher chance we don't have any for 115, but I'm mostly against v5 becausewwe can't respond to any bad events that happen
[X] Plan: A week of war
- [x] Days 101-104: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Day 105 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
[X] Plan: A week of war
- [x] Days 101-104: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
- [x] Day 105 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
Please refresh, the v5 plan has been updated to only do 10 days, from Day 96-105 (not 101-115). It will have enough Blood Qi for that - it takes 100 war progress to generate 1 blood qi = 7-8 frontline actions on average.
We are currently at 93/100 progress for the next Blood Qi, so that's actually 8-9 Frontline actions for the 2nd Blood Qi on Day 105.
We've done 10-day turns before - this is our best bet to finally win the war, as it's hinted to be 20 meters to push to the Enemy Hive. We're currently at 12 meters so it'll take 8 meters more, around 10-12 frontline actions on average.
@Obsidian0206 Heads up, your vote is a bit outdated as the v5 plan was changed to only do 10 days - the dates were wrong, it's supposed to start from Day 96 (not Day 101).
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Does fight on the Frontlines get the work parties bonus?
Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
Yes it does. +5 bonus for each Frontline action. So 10 Frontline actions averages 150 progress (100 from dice rolls, 50 from bonus). That's enough to finish it 8 times (currently 10/20) for +8 meters.
Blood Qi also gets the +5 bonus from fighting in Frontlines. So 10 Frontline action = 150 progress towards Blood Qi (currently at 93/100).
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@Arcanestomper I think I found an error in Day 80's frontline progress. The status didn't change from the previous Day 75 status:
This is Day 75.
This is Day 80. We rolled 49 progress on Frontline actions so 10/20 + 49 = 59/20 = 19/20.
So we're missing +9 extra Frontline progress, if you want to add it to the current bar, since it's similar numbers at 10/20
I've added it to the latest one.
Vote closed
Day 105: Blood and Death
Day 105
The ant kills and kills and kills and kills. Thousands, tens of thousand die to her mandibles. She rampages forward like a juggernaut and leaves a trail of death in her wake. After some consideration she has her sisters carry these Enemy corpses back and make graveyards in carefully chosen locations between the colonies.The graveyards soon overflow and merge together into a wall of death and decay that makes the path between the two colonies extremely hazardous for a mortal ant of either side.
Unfortunately what the Ant did not consider was that of the two cultivators in this war one of them was better at making use of tactics and strategic chokepoints than the other. And it wasn't her.
In the second Shake of her frenzy the Ant finds that she is no longer killing normal Enemy workers. Every single one of them is a myrmidon now. And even for an Ant of her stature killing thousands of Myrmidons is a bit of a challenge.
Then her Rival falls out of the air and lands directly on top of her carapace. The ant scrabbles and thrashes as the Enemy Myrmidons try to hold her down by grabbing her legs and her rival attempts to land a deadly strike on her vulnerable joints.
But the Ant is too strong. She hadn't even noticed because her opponents were too weak, but at some point during her frenzy she had advanced a stage. And now it was paying off. Even with a dozen myrmidons hanging from her limbs she was barely slowed and her Rival was having too much trouble holding on to do more than scratch her.
Step by step the Ant pulled back until she reached the corpse border. Then she exploded in a frenzy of movement that sent the myrmidons and her Rival flying. She briefly considered launching a counter attack, but then decided that too many unexpected things had occurred and blitzed back across the border where the army of her sisters waited.
War Frenzy: +6 meters
Enemy Colony: All Myrmidons
Wall of Death: No mortal ants can cross this border
War Progress: Stabilized at 15 Meters
Sometime later her sisters reported something strange. Her rival had shown herself at one of the gaps in the Wall of Death. And she was emitting two of the colony's pheromones. One for food and one for fight.
It was too strange for the Ant's sisters, but she could grasp the meaning. Her rival wished to end the war. Either in peace or or a final fight between just the two of them.
[ ] Accept Parley
[ ] Fight Rival
Colony Health: 43
The Dance of Blood (43/100)
Blood Qi: 0
Silk Qi: 0
Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering
HP 90/90
Heal 9/Day
Combat Roll: 2d20+8
Trait: Vigorous Blood
Spend 1 Blood Qi to gain 1 Extra Action.
The Dance of Blood (43/100)
Blood Qi: 0
Silk Qi: 0
Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering
HP 90/90
Heal 9/Day
Combat Roll: 2d20+8
Trait: Vigorous Blood
Spend 1 Blood Qi to gain 1 Extra Action.
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Considering we're at full health and have the physical advantage, I'm favoring a fight.