Taking Salkaten will be a bloody slog even if we lose. Ostland has another army, and the Arks have driven themselves hundreds of meters into solid rock which will take a while to undo. Barak Varr is coming. The Dawi will catch two grounded and depleted Black Arks.
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Well yeah, they are at sea with rest of fleet waiting for chance to strike well since can't face black ark directly.
How ruthless we talking here? We have a percentage of merc causalities or something? I know no hard numbers due to chaos of fighting, just curious.
Home Fighting Cocks are alright since they are best in ranged support and are my favorite mercs.
This is very important. Even if we're forced to retreat, the Army of the Forest is still completely intact; if we manage to pull back with at least a good chunk of our forces, we'd still have a force greater than the one present in Salkalten at the beginning of this battle; and while we wouldn't have its great fortifications, the Druchii have also suffered a lot of casualties, incluiding some of their best elites, and will likely lose more. And if they move too inland, they will have to let some of their troops to guard the Arks. That's not even counting the Dwarf fleet.
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Yeah, but you think Long Drong hasn't got some Jack Sparrow grade shenanigans up his sleeve?
Doomed Wombat
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Yeah, though I was considering it given how Freddy was present (and helped to cause) Morathi to loose her grip on Ariel. We know she reacted to that OOC.
Of course that probably means at most that she supported this mission in some manner, since she is if nothing else an incredibly petty person, although I imagine she also likely doesn't care too much about Fred.
Still...I do worry that we've probably made an enemy of Caledor for life. And possibly a few generations after.
Now they can't avenge their pride
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Yeah, though I was considering it given how Freddy was present (and helped to cause) Morathi to loose her grip on Ariel. We know she reacted to that OOC.
Of course that probably means at most that she supported this mission in some manner, since she is if nothing else an incredibly petty person, although I imagine she also likely doesn't care too much about Fred.
Still...I do worry that we've probably made an enemy of Caledor for life. And possibly a few generations after.
Now they can't avenge their pride
On the flipside?
Maximum flex next time we see Kharanos.
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Great update! Distressing that arguably the most important part of the battle was going poorly, but Anna ablating our losses into the mercenaries is a grimly decent outcome.
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and how do you know that
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Part of the bastard's fluff, he crossed swords with Tyrion and Prince Eldyr about a half-year after Finuval Plain in Nagarythe, during the search for an artifact. He killed the latter brutally.
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Yeah that is the upside.
Shame we probably can't make anything useful out of a black dragon, probably filled with Dhar and ickyness.
Well that's probably going to tank our rep with mercenaries forever. Even if there's the expectation they might be more expendable (which I'm not sure of) and this was going to be a bloody battle, historically at least mercenaries don't like people who expect them to die. Bad for business.
Guessing, but they might think ninja'd
I can't find anything to corroborate this, but Eldyr was killed by executioners, and it might have been expanded to him specifically.
In case anyone cares, the music that played the most while writing the majority of this was the metal remix of Magic Spear/Daredevil from Ace Combat by the Tiberium Sons. You know, intense aerial combat involving lots of flips/spins/dives/ascensions.
View: https://youtu.be/mGXril3LNqs
View: https://youtu.be/mGXril3LNqs
hey hey hey we will instead have a influx of slayer merc contracts .
or orcs....
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Oh, that was worth every bit of the wait! I knew we'd be just fine with Maranith, he went down like a bitch hahaha! I think this is the first time I've ever read someone violently castrate a dragon, but damn, if any dragon deserved it it was a Drucchi's black dragon. Honestly we're in a pretty good place for battle right now. The Flagellants won't be wasted on their chaff anymore, and we didn't necessarily lose anything that can't be replaced, besides the mercenaries. It hurts now of course, but when we win this battle (and I'm gonna say when unless something horribly catastrophic occurs) we won't be in too terrible a position if we ignore the Beasttide OOC horror. Also, I can't say I'd trust the word of any Drucchi except Malekith when they're claiming they murdered someone we love, unless they have their head/peeled off face, as those savages are wont to do.
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Lexicanum, his entry specifically. https://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tullaris
Torroar tappin' dat DEEP lore right now. Love it when it's something clever like this! Absolutely fucking brilliant, @torroar !
Torroar tappin' dat DEEP lore right now. Love it when it's something clever like this! Absolutely fucking brilliant, @torroar !
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It doesn't really work that way dude, the Light of Summer just rolls and if it rolls well enough Freddy heals. Fatal wound healing needs time to recover but it recharges itself if given enough time.
I mean, this is WHF world, pretty sure most mercs expect clients to use them to avoid their own actual troop causalities when possible.
Also, all things considered Freddy has been a great employer for most of them, keeping them on contracts for years with constant pay and mostly just doing patrol work. This is a first real huge battle since the Blood Fane where merc companies have actually totally died in process.
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Maybe, kinda hard to say considering fighting two black arks is suicide to begin with and you have to have survivors to tell tales.
Damn I hope it chafes.
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Elves so probably not. Smug bastards.
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The ones who served Maranith at least probably aren't feeling as smug as the others right now!
Yeah, but we may not have enough time before we end up fighting something scary again. Hence the question.