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As the prong of the trident that tends to get left out of things, it's nice to see him get the chance to go ham on something.
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Thanks for the brilliant update, Torroar! I am glad that you decided to give us a view of the Nordland theatre.
Now, on to the inplications of this:
It seems that the situation in Nordland is going much better than expected. In fact, it seems that the Druchii fleet, due to being successfully baited, might be almost completely destroyed soon. This would mean that they might be able to send reinforcements to Salkalten much sooner than expected.
However, even if this turns out to be true, the questions remains, of course, if the defenders there will be able to hold on long enough, and if, probably before that, the fleet over there will be able to interfere successfully. The last part might be harder to do than expected, as there still is one black dragon left alive.
Now, on to the inplications of this:
It seems that the situation in Nordland is going much better than expected. In fact, it seems that the Druchii fleet, due to being successfully baited, might be almost completely destroyed soon. This would mean that they might be able to send reinforcements to Salkalten much sooner than expected.
However, even if this turns out to be true, the questions remains, of course, if the defenders there will be able to hold on long enough, and if, probably before that, the fleet over there will be able to interfere successfully. The last part might be harder to do than expected, as there still is one black dragon left alive.
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After hearing of the shit show that is Kislev right now I am glad to see that Nordland and Eonir seem to be doing very well, to point of taking out dark elves and their ships!
Here is hoping they can send us aid if we need it soon, and that the Empire's and dwarf's war against the Waaagh down south is going nearly as well as Nordland's.
Also hope since that since their attending fleet is being destroyed that means the high elves and dwarf fleets can sneak up to black arks and take them out too.
Here is hoping they can send us aid if we need it soon, and that the Empire's and dwarf's war against the Waaagh down south is going nearly as well as Nordland's.
Also hope since that since their attending fleet is being destroyed that means the high elves and dwarf fleets can sneak up to black arks and take them out too.
Assuming that we survive the Druuchii assault, we should commission a operatic duet for the two lovely warrior-mage spouses Natasha and Odelia, who are both major contributors to the respective battles in Salkaten and Nordland. We could call this duet the Song of Ice and Fire.
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I just noticed this, and makes me wonder what the Ostermark quest is titled, a Dynasty of Faith and Stoutness?
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So After a day to gather themselves they can steal the Dark Elf ships and together with Nordland ships set sail for us. From their if we have any luck at all Stephan will meet some Ironclads along the way and a certain High Priestess leading a fleet with a Half dozen Greatships at it's head. All to come out of the fog at the last moments to hit the Black Arks when all of their soldiers and magic users are hitting our walls. An Ambush with complete and total surprise thanks to enough magic users to block the Dark Elves from using Divination to see it coming.
Possible the High Elves too because I refuse to believe that fucker killed Eldyra.
It seems that Nordland finally is reminded again of who precisely Stephan is.
The newest update also reminds us that, while Tullaris knows certain things, he probably is ignorant about the current situation in Nordland.
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Quickly, Stephan! Salkalten Calls for Aid!
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I can tell you about the druichi quest name Dynasty of Salt and even more salt because daam this is as bad as the "iron war" in embers.I just noticed this, and makes me wonder what the Ostermark quest is titled, a Dynasty of Faith and Stoutness?
The naval forces of Ostland, mercenaries included, didn't go to Nordland, but just stayed out of range of the Black Arks, with the express purpose of attacking the Druchii in the back, once they have overextended themselves. It is an important part of the plan for the Battle of Salkalten, and probably will appear in future updates
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Probably not. He is not exactly sane, after all.
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GEEETTTTT FUUUUUUCKED! It's all well and good to be edgy evil dickheads until you start to loose to the people that can actually for alliances and realize you have no-one to bail you out.
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alright so at least the other imperial proviences are having a lighter go at things.
kill those pervert pointy ears and hurry
kill those pervert pointy ears and hurry
Whew, this was a relief and happy news. I was waiting for some kind of dramatic back-and-forth shifting in the tide of battle -- as it feels happens a lot, as that's just how the situation and dice and character toughness and buffs and circumstances turn out -- but it looks like it was just a straight and simple victory for Nordland.
Now this means that Stephan will be well-positioned to blunt the Beast-tide and/or come to our aid against the Black Arks. Or to send the Imperial Navy to us; possibly they'll get lucky and arrive at the same time as the Asur do, heh heh. Let's hope that if he does send reinforcements to us, it doesn't deprive him of too many troops; as, again, there's that whole Beast-tide thing to think about. Though unfortunately we don't know about it in-character so...
That darn Beast-tide has been full "Alfred Hitchcock's 15 minutes of suspense" all this while. Which is good! It makes us care, makes us worry, makes us go "But will we be in the right place at the right time to take the attack when it finally comes? What if X thing we do now, results in us zigging when we should have zagged?" every time we do anything military-wise. Makes for a good and dramatic story and makes it very memorable for the questers as a whole. But also kind of nervous because of that, haha.
And then the aftermath afterwards of course. Even after the Great War Against Chaos, there were many cults and Chaos Warriors and plots set up and remaining afterwards. And even after Gruber, there was that lone Plaguebearer that tried to infect bricks to mess up a rebuilding attempt found out later. But there was tons of rebuilding too. And glory and rewards and commendations for those involved.
Here and now, there're plenty of balls in the air for multiple factions, that look and feel like they can land heads or tails in how it goes; Aurelion and the High Elves at the Arcane Fulcrum, the Eonir and Asrai (because I half-feel that the Asrai will get involved when Morghur reveals himself in the Beast-tide), the Asur having chased off the Druchii from the isle and now pursuing their very Black Arks -- while the young Eldyra takes the fight to the Druchii in Ostland! -- and Kislev having its own troubles. The Empire and the Karaz Ankor having a battle against Greenskins to rival Black Fire Pass in momentousness, it feels like. The Greenskins themselves also feel like they might hold a surprise or two; the Forest Goblins were ousted by Malagor's efforts, so maybe the Goblins will sweep in to try to destroy the Beastmen for that? And the Skaven are around too. Their Cultists have tried stuff, but... who knows what was up with that. IIRC Torroar said that some of the Skaven movements and mountain tunnel collapses and stuff a few years ago, was due to the Skaven fucking up some kind of "get/make more food" project, and the aggression and Skaven activity splashing onto other places, was a result of that. So who knows what the Skaven have been up to since then, and whether they've recovered and grown even stronger since then, or whether they're teetering in trouble still, or whether Clan Pestilens launched another civil war (I forget if they're due to start one in the 2400s, or if they started one long ago and it's just been running till the 2500s in the canon timeline?). And the Druchii of course. They've taken a number of licks recently, a number of gambits of their's failing... but whose factions failed those? Was it Malekith-aligned-ish sub-factions that got their shit punched in? Or were most of these attempts, attempts by independent and ambitious Lords and Heroes to seek glory or territory outside of Malekith's domain? And thus, our achieving victories over them, meant that while we weakened the Dark Elves as a whole, we also helped prune Malekith's competitors or trouble-starters?
And those are just the things we have seen enough of on-screen -- combined with canon knowledge -- to be able to speculate about. What's going on in Tilea and Estalia, that might surprise the Old World? What the hell is up with the Necromancy attacks in Araby and... I forget where the latest huge undead army attack was, I think somewhere in the Badlands or the Dark Lands or something, but...? When a lot of the Empire's vampires or necromancers fled for the Vampire Coast (though not nearly all of them, presumably some fled to Neferata, or the mountains, or elsewhere; also IIRC torroar mentioned somebody trying to raise a bunch of the dead in the Badlands because of all the dead Orcs and Skaven, and getting quashed, back when he was running Gen NPCs) and increased Harkon's numbers, what might come of that? Where is the Marienburg pirate Otto sailing to? What will happen in Norsca? Are the Chaos Dwarves temporarily played out in resources/focus/time in trying to act against the Karaz Ankor for now (I've been wondering whether the Ghazh Kull Mag Uruk Thraka guys were a Chaos Dwarf plot, or a Black Orc escaping from the Chaos Dwarfs, or Chaos Dwarfs going "Fuck it -- he escaped, but, fine, at least he's going in the direction of the Karaz Ankor anyway! Good enough." and washing their hands of the attempt) or are they getting ready or did they get busy with something else? Are there any major Chaos plots going on, for the human side rather than the Beastmen side I mean? In the Old World rather than in Norsca I mean. What's up with the tide of Ogres hitting Karak Kadrin? Is that a butterfly effect of us hiring, using up, and taking away Hak and Pak from, the Bouldersmash (or Boulder-something-name I forget) clan during Karak Ungor? Or is it due to Chaos Dwarf machinations, or Neferata, or something else? Or just a natural Ogre migration being ousted from their lands by Darklands stuff, and just happening to hit the Dwarfs at a spectacularly bad time for us?
Are the Twins and Elspeth going to make it back to the Empire in time for the big showdown, or later, or are they going to wander into the undead and necromancy stuff we only heard in the rumor mill about, and there's a big adventure-sized adventure there? Is Morai-Wen lost like Kadon, going by a dragon-like name rather than Morai-Wen? Or will she return? Or will it depend on how the Beast-tide goes; the Asrai appearing again, Morai-Wen's sister being on the same battlefield as Morai-Wen, and rolls and drama determining whether Morai-Wen manages to snap out of it or not, or whether it's some kind of pyrrhic or bittersweet victory? Or horrible loss, if Malagor -- or Morghur -- manages to create a new lineage of Chaos Dragons, turning Morai-Wen into a new Galrauch. Because that could be a thing that Malagor is up to; trying to rouse or create or warp Dragons. ... Heck, I was recently thinking of Gotrek and Felix, and... the Goldenrod and Blackstaff guys are actually some centuries old aren't they? They might actually be alive at this time, huh. They tried to corrupt and transform a Dragon in the Dragonslayer books. I was thinking of Gotrek and Felix recently, so that's why I mused on the possibility of Malagor going for some of Galrauch's descendants, or Galrauch himself, or trying to warp new dragons, or whatnot. Or, heck, maybe he'll go for Skaladrak Incarnadine out of a sense of hubris; he succeeded with Morghur, why not go even higher?
Now this means that Stephan will be well-positioned to blunt the Beast-tide and/or come to our aid against the Black Arks. Or to send the Imperial Navy to us; possibly they'll get lucky and arrive at the same time as the Asur do, heh heh. Let's hope that if he does send reinforcements to us, it doesn't deprive him of too many troops; as, again, there's that whole Beast-tide thing to think about. Though unfortunately we don't know about it in-character so...
That darn Beast-tide has been full "Alfred Hitchcock's 15 minutes of suspense" all this while. Which is good! It makes us care, makes us worry, makes us go "But will we be in the right place at the right time to take the attack when it finally comes? What if X thing we do now, results in us zigging when we should have zagged?" every time we do anything military-wise. Makes for a good and dramatic story and makes it very memorable for the questers as a whole. But also kind of nervous because of that, haha.
And then the aftermath afterwards of course. Even after the Great War Against Chaos, there were many cults and Chaos Warriors and plots set up and remaining afterwards. And even after Gruber, there was that lone Plaguebearer that tried to infect bricks to mess up a rebuilding attempt found out later. But there was tons of rebuilding too. And glory and rewards and commendations for those involved.
Here and now, there're plenty of balls in the air for multiple factions, that look and feel like they can land heads or tails in how it goes; Aurelion and the High Elves at the Arcane Fulcrum, the Eonir and Asrai (because I half-feel that the Asrai will get involved when Morghur reveals himself in the Beast-tide), the Asur having chased off the Druchii from the isle and now pursuing their very Black Arks -- while the young Eldyra takes the fight to the Druchii in Ostland! -- and Kislev having its own troubles. The Empire and the Karaz Ankor having a battle against Greenskins to rival Black Fire Pass in momentousness, it feels like. The Greenskins themselves also feel like they might hold a surprise or two; the Forest Goblins were ousted by Malagor's efforts, so maybe the Goblins will sweep in to try to destroy the Beastmen for that? And the Skaven are around too. Their Cultists have tried stuff, but... who knows what was up with that. IIRC Torroar said that some of the Skaven movements and mountain tunnel collapses and stuff a few years ago, was due to the Skaven fucking up some kind of "get/make more food" project, and the aggression and Skaven activity splashing onto other places, was a result of that. So who knows what the Skaven have been up to since then, and whether they've recovered and grown even stronger since then, or whether they're teetering in trouble still, or whether Clan Pestilens launched another civil war (I forget if they're due to start one in the 2400s, or if they started one long ago and it's just been running till the 2500s in the canon timeline?). And the Druchii of course. They've taken a number of licks recently, a number of gambits of their's failing... but whose factions failed those? Was it Malekith-aligned-ish sub-factions that got their shit punched in? Or were most of these attempts, attempts by independent and ambitious Lords and Heroes to seek glory or territory outside of Malekith's domain? And thus, our achieving victories over them, meant that while we weakened the Dark Elves as a whole, we also helped prune Malekith's competitors or trouble-starters?
And those are just the things we have seen enough of on-screen -- combined with canon knowledge -- to be able to speculate about. What's going on in Tilea and Estalia, that might surprise the Old World? What the hell is up with the Necromancy attacks in Araby and... I forget where the latest huge undead army attack was, I think somewhere in the Badlands or the Dark Lands or something, but...? When a lot of the Empire's vampires or necromancers fled for the Vampire Coast (though not nearly all of them, presumably some fled to Neferata, or the mountains, or elsewhere; also IIRC torroar mentioned somebody trying to raise a bunch of the dead in the Badlands because of all the dead Orcs and Skaven, and getting quashed, back when he was running Gen NPCs) and increased Harkon's numbers, what might come of that? Where is the Marienburg pirate Otto sailing to? What will happen in Norsca? Are the Chaos Dwarves temporarily played out in resources/focus/time in trying to act against the Karaz Ankor for now (I've been wondering whether the Ghazh Kull Mag Uruk Thraka guys were a Chaos Dwarf plot, or a Black Orc escaping from the Chaos Dwarfs, or Chaos Dwarfs going "Fuck it -- he escaped, but, fine, at least he's going in the direction of the Karaz Ankor anyway! Good enough." and washing their hands of the attempt) or are they getting ready or did they get busy with something else? Are there any major Chaos plots going on, for the human side rather than the Beastmen side I mean? In the Old World rather than in Norsca I mean. What's up with the tide of Ogres hitting Karak Kadrin? Is that a butterfly effect of us hiring, using up, and taking away Hak and Pak from, the Bouldersmash (or Boulder-something-name I forget) clan during Karak Ungor? Or is it due to Chaos Dwarf machinations, or Neferata, or something else? Or just a natural Ogre migration being ousted from their lands by Darklands stuff, and just happening to hit the Dwarfs at a spectacularly bad time for us?
Are the Twins and Elspeth going to make it back to the Empire in time for the big showdown, or later, or are they going to wander into the undead and necromancy stuff we only heard in the rumor mill about, and there's a big adventure-sized adventure there? Is Morai-Wen lost like Kadon, going by a dragon-like name rather than Morai-Wen? Or will she return? Or will it depend on how the Beast-tide goes; the Asrai appearing again, Morai-Wen's sister being on the same battlefield as Morai-Wen, and rolls and drama determining whether Morai-Wen manages to snap out of it or not, or whether it's some kind of pyrrhic or bittersweet victory? Or horrible loss, if Malagor -- or Morghur -- manages to create a new lineage of Chaos Dragons, turning Morai-Wen into a new Galrauch. Because that could be a thing that Malagor is up to; trying to rouse or create or warp Dragons. ... Heck, I was recently thinking of Gotrek and Felix, and... the Goldenrod and Blackstaff guys are actually some centuries old aren't they? They might actually be alive at this time, huh. They tried to corrupt and transform a Dragon in the Dragonslayer books. I was thinking of Gotrek and Felix recently, so that's why I mused on the possibility of Malagor going for some of Galrauch's descendants, or Galrauch himself, or trying to warp new dragons, or whatnot. Or, heck, maybe he'll go for Skaladrak Incarnadine out of a sense of hubris; he succeeded with Morghur, why not go even higher?
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That is one bigass deer.
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They had Sorceresses, just not High Sorceresses.
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This is missing the end of the sentece.
If you remove the examples as so:
The Druchii had only ever been driven off in the entire history of the Empire
It is incomplete.
For the end: a handfull of times.
Edit: just finished reading the update and that was awesome way to go stephen.
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No, it's saying that they've been driven off, as opposed to defeated entirely. The sentence works fine even if it's a touch awkward. Could be restructured as 'The Druchii had never been defeated in the entire history of the Empire, only driven off.' I suppose.
This was brought up in Marienburg, it's not that the elf ship technology is so much better, it's just that they have better materials and better sailors. So we can't adapt anything from this unless we figure out how to magically grow giant starwood trees into the shape of a ship.
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That works even better.
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I'm not seeing it, it's fine to me.
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Great Stag are like that, and something only important wood elf lords can ride.
MrRobot
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Not really, Elven sailors are the thing that made the diference, tech wise they are just basic stuff but very well made our current ships work better for us, and the possible paddle ship would work even more since would be aproaching the dawi.