I got sidetracked on the specifics of drilling and different types of drills. Currently wondering whether the Dwarves would use hand powered auger/brace type drills where you manually turn it or something else. The Dwarves have steam technology, but I don't think they've advanced enough to minaturise it, so while they definitely have the technology to make huge steam powered drills for mining I'm not sure if they'd risk their wood with those gigantic drills. They'd need more precision work, and I doubt they're advanced enough to have modern power drills.
They wouldn't need it. They could easily have treadle based systems, given they have functional gyro copters I presume they have gearing as well so they probably have fly wheels.
I'm not sure dwarves would user modern power drills even if they had the technology.
Dwarves are all about personal mastery, and power tools could be seen as being too easy, too imprecise, or just too impersonal, to be used by a proper master craftsman.
Remember, main thing holding dwarves back in technological advancment is not wanting to.
I'm not sure dwarves would user modern power drills even if they had the technology.
Dwarves are all about personal mastery, and power tools could be seen as being too easy, too imprecise, or just too impersonal, to be used by a proper master craftsman.
Remember, main thing holding dwarves back in technological advancment is not wanting to.
You wouldn't use powertools to carve anything of beauty, but if you plan to make a big hall in the mountain, even dwarfs won't care how the stone in the middle of it got removed, only the edges have to be precise and good-looking work.
You wouldn't use powertools to carve anything of beauty, but if you plan to make a big hall in the mountain, even dwarfs won't care how the stone in the middle of it got removed, only the edges have to be precise and good-looking work.
I don't remember where it was exactly, but the scene where Mathilde went to check on canal construction, the dwarves made a great show of using tools of their ancestors.
Yes, they will use what works and is needed, but they will also feel very guilty over it, because once they would have done it all with pick and shovel, and thousands of more dwarves.
Well, maybe some runes, i doubt underway was done with nothing but pick and shovel, but then maybe it was.
There was that bit where Kragg was scandalised that the master smith was using a metal mold instead of just a good hammer and anvil like the old days when making the sword. Even if they were on a time limit.
There was that bit where Kragg was scandalised that the master smith was using a metal mold instead of just a good hammer and anvil like the old days when making the sword. Even if they were on a time limit.
There was that bit where Kragg was scandalised that the master smith was using a metal mold instead of just a good hammer and anvil like the old days when making the sword. Even if they were on a time limit.
Yes. Kragg the Grim, the 1600-1700 year old Dwarf. You'd be hard pressed to find someone more old fashioned.
I'm sure there are some stodgy old Dwarves who dislike anything new, but they do eventually get along with the times. Usually, this happens after the Engineer who made a particularly revolutionary invention is kicked out of the Engineer's Guild and eventually dies, in which they are reinstituted as their invention is praised despite them not living long enough to see it.
Yes. Kragg the Grim, the 1600-1700 year old Dwarf. You'd be hard pressed to find someone more old fashioned.
I'm sure there are some stodgy old Dwarves who dislike anything new, but they do eventually get along with the times. Usually, this happens after the Engineer who made a particularly revolutionary invention is kicked out of the Engineer's Guild and eventually dies, in which they are reinstituted as their invention is praised despite them not living long enough to see it.
On the other hand Mining Clans are pridefull bunch who thinks that there is only one way to dig throught the stone and that is by the pick. There was this scene where bunch of dwarves were building scaffholds just so some more dwarves could swing their picks to the stone.
They did make concession to technology with railway carts that carried out the broken stone tough.
On the other hand Mining Clans are pridefull bunch who thinks that there is only one way to dig throught the stone and that is by the pick. There was this scene where bunch of dwarves were building scaffholds just so some more dwarves could swing their picks to the stone.
They did make concession to technology with railway carts that carried out the broken stone tough.
I dunno about that. 8th Edition not only gives you the option of upgrading your miners with Steam Drills, you can also give them blasting charges, which are explicitly stated in their description to be used for "blasting their way to valuable mineral deposits". That seems to indicate that miners have generally accepted non pick ways of mining to some degree.
Considering how long it's been since the Dwarfs made their first handguns, I think it's perfectly reasonable to believe that these charges are about as old and had a long time to be accepted by the population. Sure you still have miners who don't want to use them, like there are still Quarellers out there, but they're still being used.
I don't remember where it was exactly, but the scene where Mathilde went to check on canal construction, the dwarves made a great show of using tools of their ancestors.
Yes, they will use what works and is needed, but they will also feel very guilty over it, because once they would have done it all with pick and shovel, and thousands of more dwarves.
Well, maybe some runes, i doubt underway was done with nothing but pick and shovel, but then maybe it was.
How it was actually done is hardly relevant, the dwarfs lost a lot of their history in the Time of Woe and the War of he Beard and it was likely replaced with mythology.
Different tools for different jobs. If you're a miner digging a tunnel to get at one mapped out branch of a mineral seam, it only has to last however long it will take to mine that deposit out, and the only ones at risk are you and your crew. That's when you might muck about with newfangled time-saving gizmos, when individual Dwarves decide to accept increased danger of tunnel collapse in exchange for increased mining yields. But if you're building something for civilian traffic to pass through, anything less than perfect is completely unacceptable.
[X] Yes
[X] Magister Tochter Grunfeld
[X] Elrisse, to get to know the most recent contributor to the Project.
[X] Belegar, to discuss who has been made Loremaster after you.
[X] Panoramia, to talk about how well her project in the Eastern Valley seems to be going.
You can cast weapons. Most bronze weapons were cast and then sharpened from there.
Its mostly with steel that casting may interfere with some of the differential hardening processes to make good blades, and even then you might cast a blank as your starting point if the shape is a pain.
With dwarfs they probably favor methods which demonstrates great skill and dedication on the part of the artisan, so I'd eyeball as precision tools being favored guild secrets while anything that makes a process more accessible to the less skilled is going to be rolled out with tremendous reluctance.
[X] Kasmir, to see how partnership with Sylvania's native faith has been going.
[X] Egrimm, to celebrate his imminent promotion and gauge his reaction to it.
[X] Middenland, to see how the Ulricans are going with their new Eonir coreligionists.
[X] Belegar, to discuss who has been made Loremaster after you.
[X] Cython, to talk obliquely of what it means for a God to have offspring.
[X] Stirland, to see for yourself how the war against Sylvania is progressing.
[X] Egrimm, to celebrate his imminent promotion and gauge his reaction to it.
[X] Cython, to talk obliquely of what it means for a God to have offspring.
[X] Belegar, to discuss who has been made Loremaster after you.
[X] Elrisse, to get to know the most recent contributor to the Project.
[X] Elrisse, to get to know the most recent contributor to the Project.
[X] Panoramia, to talk about how well her project in the Eastern Valley seems to be going.
[X] Stirland, to see for yourself how the war against Sylvania is progressing.
[X] Roswita, to get a sense for who will control Sylvania after you turned down the position.
[X] Kasmir, to see how partnership with Sylvania's native faith has been going.
i was trying to find a video about building a ballista, as inspiration for Codex's possible omake... Instead, i came across a video of Jorg Sprave from the slingshot channel and the worlds biggest slingshot.
13m long and 1.2 tonnes of tension.
It was fired ~10 times, and then it failed catastrophically... Destroying the machine
Honestly, given the reference to wearing out hammers and starting from molten metal, I had pictured something a bit more exotic too.
Kragg rolled his shoulders and let out a satisfied grumbling sigh as he looked about his workshop, atop the secondary peak of Karag Lhune. Bok was over in the corner, but that was an eternal puzzle. That frustrating axe Mathilde had tossed at him was as settled as it was going to get, and he finally had time to do some with he was more comfortable with.
Something in the old style of course; something to keep the Karak secure it went without saying. Something with an edge, he thought; he'd like to work on an axe to take the taste of all those swords he did out of his mouth, and there was that new clan that the beardling king had founded- of which Kragg still had mixed feelings about. On the hammer, new clans were a poke in the eye to the idea of knowing your ancestors! On the tongs, if there were ever an event worth commemorating by sweeping up all the dross that had forgotten their ancestors and giving them a new clan to be a part of? The retaking of a Karak was it!
Besides, he decided as he hefted a steel ingot onto his anvil, casually shattering it with a single blow and distractedly sorting the chunks by grain size into different crucibles, he was doing this more for himself to relax, so he might as well take his time with doing it properly. And in a few decades when he was done, that lad that got put in charge of the sorry lot that Huzkul had claimed would have had time to mature properly. After all, it wasn't just a clan he had to head up- more important was his place as leader of Belegar's armies.
An axe it would be.
All that afternoon and into the night, the furnace blasted light and heat enough to shine out the windows of the peak in all directions. A half-dozen crucibles sweltered in the half-blocked mouth, each a slightly different alloy of iron, a few feet off of Kragg's left hand. The furnace was close enough for him to stab his tongs in every so often, pulling out a crucible, from which he would pour a trickle of molten metal onto his anvil. The hammer in his right hand never faltered in it's rhythm as it beat and swept the slowly cooling streams of steel back onto the earliest beginnings of his work's ultimate product; his left hand constantly switching between adding more material and repositioning what was there with tongs as it cooled.
Each drip and splash was flattened into the mass as he coaxed the growing grains of steel into alignment and packed them together, built up welded microlayer by welded microlayer as dense and tough as was even possible with the metal. Here and there he switched alloys, seemingly at a whim but always calculated to relieve stress and build strength in all the ways an axe needed when it was used, and the strain that would be caused by the metaphysical weight of the runes he would one day inscribe.
Slowly, properly, leaving nothing to chance or luck- Kragg sighed again, luxuriating in the motions. Perhaps in a day he'd go find food and beer, let the beginning of the heart of the axe anneal with some charcoal packed around it to replace the carbon lost to the air, but for now?
The thing with dwarves is that if they decide to spend time on something new, the new thing has to be significantly better than the traditional thing, or they've wasted all that time and effort.
Say it takes an engineer 100 dwarf hours to build a cannon. If they spend 200 dwarf hours inventing a mega cannon, that mega cannon has to at least be twice as good as a normal cannon—if it isn't, they lost the opportunity to make two perfectly good and trustworthy cannon and now the next time the throng is deployed the artillery detachment is going to be under strength, which will endanger dwarven lives.
When you start throwing the time to retrain dwarf crews, convince your Thane to deploy your mega cannon, and enlisting a gyrocopter to carry your mega cannon up a mountain—well suddenly the cost of making it becomes way too high, and people will question why you just didn't spend that time doing something that is tried and tested and most of all trustworthy.
So I'm almost finished with 6th Edition. By god it's been a long journey, because 6th Edition was chock full of books and supplements and material to go through, and man has it been ridiculously informative. I never thought I'd be learning so much about Lustria, but 6th Edition is obsessed with the place. I will say that the way Lustria is spoken about makes it feel like the writers were absolutely obsessed with Indiana Jones, and that definitely plays through in the writing. The descriptions of the natives (and I'm not talking about Lizardmen here)... it's uncomfortable to say the least.
I will mention this however. Amazons get far more mentions than I'd expected in 6th Edition. It seems that at the time Amazons were a largely accepted part of the setting, albeit one that only ever got stats in White Dwarf articles. There's a decent number of mentions of them here and there all over the place. What confuses me is how 8th Edition just seems to have disapparated them. I think there might be vague mentions of them in 8th Edition, but not nearly as much as 6th. What happened to them between Editions?
