Absolutely not. C'mon man. You're joking me, yeah? In case you're not: NO. I use a dang ARC Trainer, jeez.
Joking? To an extent. Obviously I don't think you go for hard drugs, but ever sinse you described you attitude toward training as "punishment for your body" I have been worrying about you training being unhealthy.
 
Joking? To an extent. Obviously I don't think you go for hard drugs, but ever sinse you described you attitude toward training as "punishment for your body" I have been worrying about you training being unhealthy.
Running is absolutely punishment for your body. It's just that if you push through the initial hump your body starts to fill you up with happy chemicals because it assumes you are running for a darn good reason and it wants you to know it isn't mad about the work you are making it do.
 
Well let's be clear here, all that would be a LITTLE extreme. 'What she wanted' in that case would have to be, like, a sure shot 100% guaranteed victory over Ulthuan, and probably also getting Aenarion to admit he loved her the most somehow.

In this case, it's effectively:

Informant: My lady, the Barbed Soul Coven has accepted the commission of the Witch King! They have joined with the Supreme Sorceress Haeletha and El'tha and their own Covens as well!

Morathi: Wonderful. Slave, mark down in my calendar a note to increase the wards on Ghrond again. And you, my informant, shall watch for those who shall rise to take their places after they're gone.

Informant: ...my lady?

Morathi: Of course most will wait until the crater is filled back in with snow, but there's no reason not to be proactive about it.
heh, ok fair enough.
 
Running is absolutely punishment for your body. It's just that if you push through the initial hump your body starts to fill you up with happy chemicals because it assumes you are running for a darn good reason and it wants you to know it isn't mad about the work you are making it do.

Body: what do you mean we're not running from a big cat/pack of wolves/insert predator here?! Running for fun?! Bullshit! 😜
 
This time, it appeared it would be no different, for Naraiel drew a finger across her throat just before the Great Stag slammed into the mobile altar and knocked it onto its side.
I wonder how rare the Cauldrons of Blood are? Sources state Morathi knows their innermost secrets and was the one to reveal them, so if she knows how to make more she probably keeps it strictly controlled.
 
Considering there are two whole Black Arks here but only two Cauldrons at Salkaten, probably not as rare as Arks, for example, but not exceptionally common.
 
Currently listlessly staring out a window with blank eyes in a proper lady's dress, her wargear gathering dust in a chest thrown into a basement inland, her body thinned from lack of appetite and resulting lack of nutrition.
Hope Mena is handling her depression as well as she can and family being loving is helping.

Either way hope after this event is over, ideally with as little people dead in families as possible, heirs can get together to talk and hang out while talking reconstruction.
 
The problem is that the black arks are the fastest ships in the sea. He's chasing them. This is a losing strategy. The only time anyone manages to actually do anything about a black arks is when they can catch it pinned down doing something. Two in open water? They can simply sail away faster than he can hope to chase them.

Asilin has caught Black Arks at sea before and even sunk one himself If I remember correctly. The Druchii navel forces are retreating thus they will not be as effective as they normally are a preventing the Dragonships from getting clear attacks on them.

Their it a chance he could destroy one of them before they managed to get back to safer waters.
 
Asilin has caught Black Arks at sea before and even sunk one himself If I remember correctly. The Druchii navel forces are retreating thus they will not be as effective as they normally are a preventing the Dragonships from getting clear attacks on them.

Their it a chance he could destroy one of them before they managed to get back to safer waters.
You don't need to be faster to catch them, just cleverer or luckier to be in the right place at the right time. Being faster means if you find them catching them becomes inevitable. This isn't the case with black arks, as they seem to be able to disengage at will.

But yes. Here and now they can be caught. They are trapped in the Sea of Claws too, with the enemy navy between them and open ocean. The Sea of Claws has only one entrance and exit. Right now, at this moment, they could be caught unable to just sail away.

I was referring to the Asur navy trying to run down Black Arks on open water like they seem to be doing.
 
You know, come to think of it, if we do the cannon barrage followed by flagellants followed by calvary charge we are literally implementing Faith (flagellants), Steel (Calvary charge), and Gunpowder (Cannons) at a tactic.
I hope that gives us some kind of bonus for the rolls
ou don't need to be faster to catch them, just cleverer or luckier to be in the right place at the right time. Being faster means if you find them catching them becomes inevitable. This isn't the case with black arks, as they seem to be able to disengage at will.

But yes. Here and now they can be caught. They are trapped in the Sea of Claws too, with the enemy navy between them and open ocean. The Sea of Claws has only one entrance and exit. Right now, at this moment, they could be caught unable to just sail away.
If we catch the Black arks while there still grounded on land then we can totally take them assuming we've dealt with the dark elven army

but if they make if back out to sea then I don't see a way for us to deal with them on our own as even if we catch or ambush them actually damaging them meaningfully before they blow through our forces like they did our walls as they run away is not within our ability , now if a high elven fleet with dragon ships shows up then that is a different matter as those arks with their escort fleet gone and garrison depleted won't stand a chance , mind you if the dwarf iron clade shows up I would give them even odds of taking on the arks before they get away
 
I hope that gives us some kind of bonus for the rolls

If we catch the Black arks while there still grounded on land then we can totally take them assuming we've dealt with the dark elven army

but if they make if back out to sea then I don't see a way for us to deal with them on our own as even if we catch or ambush them actually damaging them meaningfully before they blow through our forces like they did our walls as they run away is not within our ability , now if a high elven fleet with dragon ships shows up then that is a different matter as those arks with their escort fleet gone and garrison depleted won't stand a chance , mind you if the dwarf iron clade shows up I would give them even odds of taking on the arks before they get away
No! If they take off to sea I am voting to scoop up our wife and lead a calvary charge across the water as she freezes us a path like the fricken hardcore Disney princess she is. Once we set our stubborn feet on one of those blasted floating rocks there is no way, hell or high water, that they are getting us off again until every Druchi is dead.
 
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Even if the Black Arks stay grounded we may not be able to take them, because they're basically giant fortresses that we'd have to reduce with an artillery bombardment (many of our guns and artillery crews are lost and we only have so much powder and shot), and that would take quite a pounding to bring down... and if the pounding goes on long enough, the surviving operators will be able to get them up and floating again.
 
Even if the Black Arks stay grounded we may not be able to take them, because they're basically giant fortresses that we'd have to reduce with an artillery bombardment (many of our guns and artillery crews are lost and we only have so much powder and shot), and that would take quite a pounding to bring down... and if the pounding goes on long enough, the surviving operators will be able to get them up and floating again.
This post ALSO lacks Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder. Come on guys. If we want to do this we have to BELIEVE!

FAITH! STEEL! GUNPOWDER!
 
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Even if the Black Arks stay grounded we may not be able to take them, because they're basically giant fortresses that we'd have to reduce with an artillery bombardment (many of our guns and artillery crews are lost and we only have so much powder and shot), and that would take quite a pounding to bring down... and if the pounding goes on long enough, the surviving operators will be able to get them up and floating again.
we don't need all our cannon to take on a Black ark , we only need enough to blow open its gates so as to storm it , after all reducing the ark to ruins means we won't get as much loot
 
we don't need all our cannon to take on a Black ark , we only need enough to blow open its gates so as to storm it
I remain convinced that all we need to do is GET to those gates and be ANGRY enough! We have a bit of dwarf in our soul. The grudge sings to us a song of rage! They wrecked our walls! We won't be satisfied until we wreck ALL of their walls right back!

(Besides, in Warhammer Total War hero units absolutely can just punch their way through gates. It's not even against the lore!)
 
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Even if the Black Arks stay grounded we may not be able to take them, because they're basically giant fortresses that we'd have to reduce with an artillery bombardment (many of our guns and artillery crews are lost and we only have so much powder and shot), and that would take quite a pounding to bring down... and if the pounding goes on long enough, the surviving operators will be able to get them up and floating again.

But that doesn't account for our fleet and Barak Varr's sailing in to snap the jaws of the trap shut. Most likely, they'd be the ones to finish the job and take them down, should that comes to pass.
 
Even if the Black Arks stay grounded we may not be able to take them, because they're basically giant fortresses that we'd have to reduce with an artillery bombardment (many of our guns and artillery crews are lost and we only have so much powder and shot), and that would take quite a pounding to bring down... and if the pounding goes on long enough, the surviving operators will be able to get them up and floating again.
When it comes to trying to take a Black Ark, there is one factor working in our favour when compared to trying to storm a regular fortress: namely, that regular fortresses haven't normally just deployed and exhausted most of their troops in a ruinous battle literally immediately before you attack. Granted, we'd also have taken a ton of losses too, but fortifications are a huge force multiplier- every soldier manning a wall is worth multiple attackers, so losing defending forces in advance of the battle is disproportionately impactful.

Now, do I think this means we could actually successfully pull it off? Not really. We've already lost most of our mercs and taken a bunch of miscellaneous damage, we're about to face the enemy's main force and get chewed up even more, and we'd still need to actually have a way in (blast a hole, scale the walls, etc). But it does bring the task down from 'impossible' to merely 'very very difficult'.
 
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