The Old World: Dark Age of the Empire
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It's the sole wrinkle on the plan you made. The losses suck but we also bloodied the Defenders at the expense of them losing their stored gunpowders and their gatehouse. Either we make a plan that keeps the passivity and lick our wounds with the locked dice or we do two dices and storm the damn thing.
Well thank Ranald, literally. My reticence on stirring the pot against Slyvania is vindicated, but I will not complain that we succeeded despite the long odds. It speaks to how much Vlad locked down the province that our only agents are divinely backed Ranaldians who are at the moment, Empire's equivalent for Grey Magisters.
Do we get to pick all of the options, as tough as a sell as it is? And do Bismarck or the Council get a glimpse of what the Amendment looks like? Just to see if it's on the up and up?
birdmaster01
Big Tech's Strongest Soldier
Count Bismarck and the Horrible,Terrible,No Good,Very Bad Campaign
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- Warkeymon
You can pick as many as you want.
The amendment the Quinsberry Cult has written up has been reviewed when it was given to you and it's the same as the Dwarf one. It rewrites a few definitions to ensure all existing rights afforded to humans are explicitly afforded to Halflings as well.
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- Over the next hill.
Is the Ostermark mention a typo or can we go full arms dealer? What's the benefit of these actions?
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- Warkeymon
You have an agreement in place with Ostermark to supply war materiel if it is attacked. The Ungol tribes of the Veldt are marching on Bechafen at the moment.
What's the difference between the two, and would doing only one of them fulfills the obligation?
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- Warkeymon
The Industrielplatz will not supply guns or cannons, the School will.
In theory there's an argument that the Veldt is not a valid target for such an agreement given that they are part of the Ostermark the same as the Mark of Essen is and therefore you could get away with not supplying anything. It's a local rebellion in the province and the wording of the agreement mentions invasion of the Ostermark.
If you supply anything, Ostermark will be glad to accept it.
Adrian XXIV
Average User, from Poland
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- Poland
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Rather ironic, considering your username
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- Germany
Ostermark is distracted, Talabecland has weakened and likely demoralized troops (after two years in Mordheim) on the banks of the Stir.
That's a juicy target for Vlad, if he wants to go mask off.
That's a juicy target for Vlad, if he wants to go mask off.
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Right, I think we can spin this to the Otillian Empress for further deals. Of the Imperial Claimants, she's the one that's likely to have the least amount of crabs buckets and likely to be receptive to any kinds of trade deals in exchange of arming her mauled troops, if we toss in the fact that we're willing to back her on getting her vote now, once the opportunity for a Second Conference is settled.
But I am intending to make a much more internal focused plan, what with all the favours we've been trading, particularly the Grenzstadt Town that we're obligated to do with Averland. Moreover, Scharmbeck is a problem and we need to ensure harmony on our homefront so we can actually leverage the Arsenal and expand it.
As a tertiary thing, our kid is 3 years old now and we need to spend time with him further. That and have some more private time with Fiorella to get more heirs.
Right, here's my plan. I am aiming to spend some of Bismarck's time with family before shit gets rough, deal with Wurtbad and our alliance obligations, and as @Void Stalker said, cash in on our Diplo Efforts with the Dwarves to get our non-Scharmbeck mines. I would like to give the Mootland an actual hand if Slyvania comes calling but we're sort of stressed from all angles at the moment. If folks think it's a good idea I'll change the plans.
[X] Clearing Backlogs
-[X] Diplomacy: 1 Dice
--[X] Family Matters Cost: 200 Marks per Die Must Beat: 25 1 Dice
-[X] Martial: 1 Locked Dice + 4 Dice + 1 Marienburg Dice
--[X] Fortify the Border (Grenzstadt Town) Cost: 400 Materials per Die (Waived Marks Costs for Grenzstadt) Required Effort: 1,500/2,500 1 Marienburg Dice
--[X] The Stirland Crisis Must Beat: 50 1 Locked Dice + 2 Dices
---[X] Storm Wurtbad
--[X] Mixed-Company Detachments Cost 500 Marks per Die Required Effort: 86/100 1 Dice
--[X] Re-equip the Great Company Cost: 3000 Marks and 400 Materials per Die Required Effort: 87/240 1 Dice
-[X] Stewardship: 3 Dice
--[X] Prospect the Mountains (Kreutzhofen) Cost: 400 Marks per Die Must Beat: 25 1 Dice
--[X] The Wissenland Road Network (Wissenburg-Wurmgrube Road) Cost: 1,500 Marks and 400 Materials per Die Required Effort: 123/400 1 Dice
--[X] A Temple of the White Wolf Cost: 4,000 Marks and 2,000 Materials per Die Required Effort: 0/250 1 Dice
-[X] Learning: 2 Dice
--[X] Develop the Mainspring (Di Miragliano Interest) Cost: 800 Marks and 100 Materials per Die Must Beat: 100 1 Dice
--[X] Develop the Gimbal Compass (Di Miragliano Interest) Cost: 800 Marks and 50 Materials per Die Must Beat: 100 1 Dice
-[X] Miscellaneous Actions
--[X] The Sheriff
--[X] The Port
--[X] The Halfling Amendment
Total Costs: 11,200 Marks | 2,950 Materials
Question @Warkeymon, does completing actions that Di Miragliano are interested in gives extra roll modifiers or gives a Di Miragliano action for? Not quite sure the mechanics of the research pact since narratively, it sounds like we're just friendly rivals rather than anything so we'd have access. And I assume they haven't reverse engineered the compass yet, since the option is there?
And for calculating costs, do we still shoulder the material costs for Marienburg building Grenzstadt to bolster the inter province cooperation?
[X] Clearing Backlogs
-[X] Diplomacy: 1 Dice
--[X] Family Matters Cost: 200 Marks per Die Must Beat: 25 1 Dice
-[X] Martial: 1 Locked Dice + 4 Dice + 1 Marienburg Dice
--[X] Fortify the Border (Grenzstadt Town) Cost: 400 Materials per Die (Waived Marks Costs for Grenzstadt) Required Effort: 1,500/2,500 1 Marienburg Dice
--[X] The Stirland Crisis Must Beat: 50 1 Locked Dice + 2 Dices
---[X] Storm Wurtbad
--[X] Mixed-Company Detachments Cost 500 Marks per Die Required Effort: 86/100 1 Dice
--[X] Re-equip the Great Company Cost: 3000 Marks and 400 Materials per Die Required Effort: 87/240 1 Dice
-[X] Stewardship: 3 Dice
--[X] Prospect the Mountains (Kreutzhofen) Cost: 400 Marks per Die Must Beat: 25 1 Dice
--[X] The Wissenland Road Network (Wissenburg-Wurmgrube Road) Cost: 1,500 Marks and 400 Materials per Die Required Effort: 123/400 1 Dice
--[X] A Temple of the White Wolf Cost: 4,000 Marks and 2,000 Materials per Die Required Effort: 0/250 1 Dice
-[X] Learning: 2 Dice
--[X] Develop the Mainspring (Di Miragliano Interest) Cost: 800 Marks and 100 Materials per Die Must Beat: 100 1 Dice
--[X] Develop the Gimbal Compass (Di Miragliano Interest) Cost: 800 Marks and 50 Materials per Die Must Beat: 100 1 Dice
-[X] Miscellaneous Actions
--[X] The Sheriff
--[X] The Port
--[X] The Halfling Amendment
Total Costs: 11,200 Marks | 2,950 Materials
Question @Warkeymon, does completing actions that Di Miragliano are interested in gives extra roll modifiers or gives a Di Miragliano action for? Not quite sure the mechanics of the research pact since narratively, it sounds like we're just friendly rivals rather than anything so we'd have access. And I assume they haven't reverse engineered the compass yet, since the option is there?
And for calculating costs, do we still shoulder the material costs for Marienburg building Grenzstadt to bolster the inter province cooperation?
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Di Miragliano will add one of his own Action Dice to a research project he's interested in at no extra cost to yourselves. In essence if you announce a project to solve a technological challenge he wants to help with he'll send some of his faculty over with the research they have on the topic to help out.
Di Miragliano is still working on his Elf-based Gimbal Compass.
Marienburg pays for its Action Die. I note you've stated 4 Dice in martial but have assigned only 3 Dice to actions also.
Ragingbear21
Victoria Concordia Crescit
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This is getting ridiculous with the Wurtbad rolls, and those losses right before the fight with the Sylvanian is painful, the loss of so much of the elector's own alone will take 4 to 6 turns of dedicated attention to them to restore.
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Well then. That changes quite a few things. Is the extra Leonardo dice apply per action or per turn with a choice of us assigning them?
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
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Since we are re-equipping the companies to Flintlocks, we likely have warehouses full of old Nulner Rifles. I am sure the Ostermark would love to have several thousand handguns for free. Powder would be sold separately and at a discount tho.
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Di Miragliano is willing to assign 1 Die to any project that interests him provided you are running the project otherwise he'll be working on projects back in Miragliano. In essence you don't get an extra die to use or assign but if you dedicate a Die to a tech he'll also send a Die. If the tech fails and you do it again, he'll still add a Die if he's still interested.
It's a Must Beat: 100 to arm them though. A variant plan can be made to shift the Mainspring Dice and the mistakenly allocated dice to the Imperial School action.
So if we do Mainspring and Gimbal both, each gets one dice?
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
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- Indonesia
The Imperial School action is having them make new guns, my idea is giving them our old guns. It would be embarrassing that we are giving the Ostermarks our newest flintlocks before our own army get theirs. Also do you have a reason on researching mainspring?
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Yes Di Miragliano has plenty of dice to spend.
I think it would be better to use more than two dice on Storm Wurtbad. Maybe it is possible to exceed the check and suffer fewer losses. Even if it is not possible, with 2 dice we still have like a 20% chance of failure if the modifiers do not change. All the dice we save with military operations we will have to spend manifold on reinforcements in the coming turns, I think that is the lesson we should learn from the last update.