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- Brazil
That's perfect.
Due the short time they should take, can we have a single action to ride up Karak Azul to buy a rifle and train with it?
I imagine their stuff is a cut above Zhufbar's.
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I imagine their stuff is a cut above Zhufbar's.
It's likely to be a possibility in the not-too-distant future, but Zhufbar is the cutting edge when it comes to gunpowder. Karak Azul is foremost in more traditional weapons.
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Gyrocopter shopping trip then? 
Edit: Where is the East Valley? It is the general area between the Citadel/Lhune/Nar/east gates, yes?
Edit: Where is the East Valley? It is the general area between the Citadel/Lhune/Nar/east gates, yes?
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What's with all the interest in wanting to become an engineer?
I don't really understand the point in it, Mathilde's skill set is being a wizard, spy and knight. Spending years learning engineering seems kind of pointless since we're hardly going to be sitting around trying to build and use cannons. Better to use that time becoming a better wizard.
I don't really understand the point in it, Mathilde's skill set is being a wizard, spy and knight. Spending years learning engineering seems kind of pointless since we're hardly going to be sitting around trying to build and use cannons. Better to use that time becoming a better wizard.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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I think it's just one person that wanted to be Gandalf.
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- Somewhere, probably Earth
Well, we DO need a new Greatsword...
best way to get to enchanted cannons for the empire?
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- Aotearoa
Greatswords are anything but traditional for dwarfs.
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- some computer lab
best way to do that is to make sure our gold jouneymanlings don't die, us becoming an engineer is an incredibly large time commitment.
Umbrinark of Ulgu sounds fun though.
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- Berkeley
Engineer means we'd be trained enough to be able to do functional mechanical enchantments on guns (like using Substance of Shadow to possibly simplify reloading and silencing the thing) as well as be able to easily destroy structures on sabotage missions. Also, any buffs to our Learning stat improve our casting abilities.
Not the highest immediate RoI thing on the table, but if we want to be a one-woman demolition team to take out Sylvania it would be quite handy.
DarkLight140
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"But what did you enchant it to do?"
"Instead of a carriage mount, it's on a shadow mount. What the Empire really needs for its artillery corps is the ability to move over rough terrain at a gallop for twelve hours a day, you know?"
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We'd need an Orb of Sorcery or a good number of Power Stones as the main component for that, and that's not down the engineering path.
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Pretty low RoI really, because that sounds like things we'd be much better off buying the services of the Gold College than to independently learn a whole new branch of skills for that one not even particularly neat trick.
If we give a cannon a name does it count as an individual?
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Also I think intentionally learning engineering so we can boost learning and thus get a buff to casting magic feels like an abuse of game mechanics. I'd be against doing so.
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Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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A cannon can't mount a horse.
Challenge accepted
It's a good thing nobody remembers to ask about the mindhole mortor.
How about a shadow camel then?
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- Berkeley
I view the personally made enchanted rifle as being the side benefit and the ability to do professional-grade demolitions in the enemy base as the main attraction.
Mopman43
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I don't think we can carry around a keg of gunpowder.
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- some computer lab
and even if we could carry a keg of gunpowder, it wouldn't take engineer training to know fire+ gunpowder = boom
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Keg would be tricky, but something capable of making a reasonable quantity of boom should be feasible. There's also the option of appropriation of local resources too...
Plus, we do have shadow magic to fall back on. It'd take a while for our burning shadow thing to get through a support and the shifts to Substance of Shadow make it tricky to use for demolitions, but that's far from being impossible.
The whole deal on training isn't about knowing how to make boom, it's about knowing where to put a given quantity of 'boom' to cause the best quantity and quality of 'crash'. You know, identifying key supports weak points, etc.
Grey wizards don't tend to gel well with carrying significant quantities of explosives. They're antipersonnel infiltrators, who can take opportunistic antimaterial damage, but generally speaking if you're destroying more than an object the size of a person you can only get the one. And we'd need to carry it till the end of the run because explosives are hard to conceal.
Unless you're Skaven, the high density explosive just isn't there at the needed portability.
If you want a sneaky saboteur you'd be better off with a dwarf ranger, they can carry more shit.
For Mathilde the shortest path to being an effective saboteur?
Unless you're Skaven, the high density explosive just isn't there at the needed portability.
If you want a sneaky saboteur you'd be better off with a dwarf ranger, they can carry more shit.
For Mathilde the shortest path to being an effective saboteur?
Shreds clean through any nonmagical object, scales directly in yield to our magic stat, deals damage silently, and we can let the target snap once its stressed while we're far away.
Battle magic is no less destructive and easier to carry around.