Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism

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I think we have to retake the pillar. The visions say we were fighting at the wrong place, and retaking the southern oghams was the plan from before we were told about the visions.
 
The Oghams are a geomantic array in many ways. Whatever it is that the Fimir are doing, what will disrupt it more - knocking out the southern array, or taking a central 'hub'?
 
Is there a chance to Uncurse/Revert Boudica from her Chaos Spawn:Status?
Because if she's been alive all this time her soul probably hasn't been corrupted. Otherwise she'd have broken down eventually like all the normal CSpawns.
 
The Pillar of Og-Agog translates from Albionese as "The ancient pillar of Heart Magic", so I'd say it may very well be the Heart from the prophecy, if we are paying attention to it.
 
We prob gonna have to deal with boudica too in the immediate future if things goes as it should.

Hopefully, the dice gods are merciful towards that.
 
Ugh. The worst part is we don't know the actual prophecy. We have a rough translation of it.

torroar said:
She had seen a sword with three blades and one hilt. One sword had been made of fire, another made of a metal she had not seen before that was not iron, and the other one of horn. All joined in a hilt soaked in blood and water. A sword that had cut down shadows before shattering apart, swallowed by the shadows that it had sought to destroy.
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torroar said:
"The three-headed sword," Mardudd interlaced his fingers, "It flails, it cuts, and is swallowed. It does not strike what it should, is what the Oracle says."
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torroar said:
"Okay. Oracle says...bad times not coming. Bad times here."
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torroar said:
"She says need to bring tribes together. Break the line, north and south come back, eh?
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The major point of contention seems to be the line "before shattering apart, swallowed by the shadows". Some people see this as a single action representing death and failure. Others see it as two actions representing splitting the party and failure.

Personally, I'm more worried about what the Pillars have defending themselves. It's got to be a pretty tough nut to crack and we don't know enough to judge how hard a nut.
 
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More likely the Fimir provide upkeep.
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You say upkeep? They wouldn't do that to a beast that they couldn't tame and have to keep locked up.
They look on humans and beasts as toys and trophies. What good is one they cannot truly own?

Wait a minute. Wouldn't that make her a prime candidate for sacrifice? I bet they're keeping her around for such a purpose.

Perhaps they're planning on turning her back for the occasion. Her transformation wasn't a haphazard thing. She was turned by multiple Formorians and kept alive and bound. Perhaps like you said, they're paying the upkeep for an extended temporary transformation.

I think we might have some sneaky sneaky hero work to do. Wish we could recruit Matheld.
 
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buli-buli said:
Ugh. The worst part is we don't know the actual prophecy. We have a rough translation of it.






The major point of contention seems to be the line "before shattering apart, swallowed by the shadows". Some people see this as a single action representing death and failure. Others see it as two actions representing splitting the party and failure.

Personally, I'm more worried about what the Pillars have defending themselves. It's got to be a pretty tough nut to crack and we don't know enough to judge how hard a nut.
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As tough as it is, spending time recruiting allied tribes isn't gurrenteed to make things easier as we lose the element of surprise and give them more time to work their magic.

The primary difference is in my mind that if we control the pillar? The ogham's lose their current primary purpose and the fimir HAVE to leave them to group up and retake it. While the other way around they can just fortify.

Assuming we do attack the pillar we should send messages to the allied tribes so they can be ready to retake any weakened or abandoned ogham's or better yet ambush them en route. I assume they have their own druid to sense when it happens if their scouts can't just monitor the ogham's for movement
 
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If we attack the pillard; we need as many soldiers as we can
no matter ho much i want to separate ours troups, i don't think it's feasible

But honestly ? Like Vodkasheep said before : retaking the pillards will force the Fimirs to abbandon some of the ogams to take back the forteress : They can't risk the apparition of a new Boudicca comanding all the tribes

And right now, the Albionese need hope more than anything else
Also no way the fimir are expecting an attack on the pillar: i would no be suprised if part of the garnison there has been send to defend the oghams
 
The Dhar orbs are still plenty of power to use on us even if their original purpose is restrained. We have a very slim window when they hadn't gotten their pants on yet to make away with their strategic means AND target.

We can sweep the lesser Oghams without full forces, just need drop druids to take out the caster mid cast while warriors tie up theirs.
Pillar needs heavy firepower but not a lot of finesse. Raw manpower isn't as important as doing a lot of damage very fast
agumentic said:
The Pillar of Og-Agog translates from Albionese as "The ancient pillar of Heart Magic", so I'd say it may very well be the Heart from the prophecy, if we are paying attention to it.
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Pretty literal yeah.
Probably going to make a run at it with the orbs and a superheavy if all else fails
 
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Okay so I just caught up... this is a hell of a hangover trip magnus. I don't think even Freddy has gotten so drunk that he somehow managed to wreck himself upon a magical island in the middle of nowhere.

kind of disappointing that we don't have access to more of our other units but I suppose great swords will have to do.

Personally I think we need to split our forces. Magnus his greatswords and the daughter go north while everyone else stays south. They keep clearing out stuff down here while Magnus catches them somewhat in suprise to breakthrough to the north.

we've had an "easy" time so far down south so I'm fairly certain they can afford Magnus leaving even if it's expensive.

just trying to clear out the south will probably not get us enough control to bail we will need to actually deal with the problem and the only way to do that is to get reinforcements from the north and coordinate a true defense. And we will probably have an easier time punching north if they think we are still in the south.
 
The problem is that we have no idea how hard it will be to attack the pillar I believe the pillar is tough enough that if we were to split the army we will likely fail to take it since it has been fortified for decades.
 
My impression is we really need to pursue both objectives. We need to stem the tide, we need to take the rallying point, we can't allow the druids to be reduced in number, nor can we their fighting strength. What I don't know is if Magnus is better suited for the stones or for the castle.

Who dyou guys think was most effective? To me the obvious split is Magnus + Reinhardt and their parties to one objective, and then Mena and the Blue Wolves to another.
 
So! Spooks about what might or might not happen next aside, thoughts, reactions, on the Gods/Boudicca/Tribes information offered in the chapter? It was fun writing it out. I find I enjoy a bit of culture/history world-building, but then again that's probably obvious after the work I did with the Cathay stuff, heh. Nevertheless, eh?

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"Prophecies are not always correct, Mena, even in the Cult of Morr they acknowledge that Doomsayers are not always correct - we are but fallible peoples attempting to ascertain truth from the signs and messages of the Gods," Reinhardt chided, "So it goes even for the Celestial Wizards, they see much, but not all is always clear."
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Really like the lore aspect, bitter sweet learning about boudica but it was cool learning about the gods though

also @Fayhem convinced that mangus need to go pillar with beefier wizards maybe with mena and rest head south not sure on composition except on mangus
 
torroar said:
So! Spooks about what might or might not happen next aside, thoughts, reactions, on the Gods/Boudicca/Tribes information offered in the chapter? It was fun writing it out. I find I enjoy a bit of culture/history world-building, but then again that's probably obvious after the work I did with the Cathay stuff, heh. Nevertheless, eh?
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It was great! Learning about their queen and getting other info while hearing story over course of reclaiming stones.

I love how unlike say Sigmar and such she wasn't born anything special but made herself so through hard work and her relentless nature like Freddy, and I really feel the Albionese's pain from losing her.
 
Also, as a fun note for anyone with some free time, it's probably not going to be too hard to figure out which of the Old Ones the Albionese were talking about in terms of their own worship, if you track profiles/domains along with a bit of purposeful degenerated naming sense, eh?
 
torroar said:
Also, as a fun note for anyone with some free time, it's probably not going to be too hard to figure out which of the Old Ones the Albionese were talking about in terms of their own worship, if you track profiles/domains along with a bit of purposeful degenerated naming sense, eh?
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Yup! Best I can tell...

Hext = Chotec
Unkis = Tzunki
Anchyr = maybe Xhotl
Tlang = Tlanxla
Etli = Quetli
Atli = Quetzl
 
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