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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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LockedMind said:
Kovnik as a military rank sounds like GW failing their linguistics check (at least if they wanted something related to Polkovnik), because Polkovnik's root is "polk" (regiment), while "kovnik" sounds like it should mean blacksmith (root "kov" from the verb "kovat"=to forge + suffix "nik" (compare to "ohotnik"=hunter, "volshebnik"=wizard, "lesnik"=forester)). Slavic rank name comparable to a captain would be Russian "sotnik" (commander of a hundred) or Polish "setnik" (same meaning, but I'm not sure how widely it was used). For example, sotniks became captains in Russia in 17-18th centuries.
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I waas going to write the same thing, but Kovnik does sound cool, so I've let it slide this time :)

E: As far as i know PLC used Kapitan or Rotmistrz, usually the former for the infantry and latter for the cavalry. But the whole army structure was a mess of various traditions so it's hard to give a simple answer.
 
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LockedMind said:
Kovnik as a military rank sounds like GW failing their linguistics check (at least if they wanted something related to Polkovnik), because Polkovnik's root is "polk" (regiment), . . .
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Kovnik sounds like an informal abbreviation of a military rank, while Polkovnik made me think of a professional polka dancer and progressively degraded to an underground dance-fighter.
 
DragonParadox said:
  1. Well an army can move between 8 and 13 miles per day, more to the lower end of hat scale if you expect them to fight well at the end of it, so let's call it 10 miles. That is still 3 days to get to the forest after however long it would take them to muster and it's not like the fey will be conveniently waiting for them at the edge of the woods. The locals are more likely to have actual intelligence to organize a force and send it where the enemy is, any army from Kislev would first have to link up with them then start off in pursuit
  2. The power is already cut off, that is one of the things Mathilde noted as odd
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10 miles a day over good territory is the rule of thumb IIRC. Kislev at this point has crap roads, and rough territory so I'd guess 6-8. Depends how many soldiers get sent as well.

Boney said:
Kislevarin for 'Captain' according to the Wiki, which cites... page 458 of a book that only has 184 pages? Goddamn it.
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Chopak said:
It's probably from the full version of the book, which has 528 pages and includes the description of Slaughter at Volganof
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It's from the Ostland Under Seige scenario actually, but yes, the full rulebook is quite large.
 
deathofrats0808 said:
10 miles a day over good territory is the rule of thumb IIRC. Kislev at this point has crap roads, and rough territory so I'd guess 6-8. Depends how many soldiers get sent as well.



It's from the Ostland Under Seige scenario actually, but yes, the full rulebook is quite large.
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We should be able to use Rite of Way to smooth over any reinforcements path... and that one thing has made me reconsider the vote a bit. See the thing about going right to the top is that it would gain nothing but handing a vague portent of doom and then having to run right back, but with Rite of Way we would be able to get that army if army be needed into position faster.

The reason I am still holding out on changing it is that we do not really have any certainty that such an army would even be sent.
 
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I'm enjoying the more down-to-earth style of these mini-adventures. I don't want to escalate to the big leagues unless we have to.
 
I'm not going to pretend that part of wanting to get to know boris is also to get to know the very serious, and very seriously cute kid Katarin.
 
Valmond said:
For us to listen to his stories about what he did today?
Murderizing chaos sorcerers is all fine and good, but a growing child needs more than that.
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Yeah. Like hunting and killing a chaos sorcerer while they are strapped to a baby carrier on your person. It builds confidence and I can confirm this as a parent.
 
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LockedMind said:
Kovnik as a military rank sounds like GW failing their linguistics check (at least if they wanted something related to Polkovnik), because Polkovnik's root is "polk" (regiment), while "kovnik" sounds like it should mean blacksmith (root "kov" from the verb "kovat"=to forge + suffix "nik" (compare to "ohotnik"=hunter, "volshebnik"=wizard, "lesnik"=forester)). Slavic rank name comparable to a captain would be Russian "sotnik" (commander of a hundred) or Polish "setnik" (same meaning, but I'm not sure how widely it was used). For example, sotniks became captains in Russia in 17-18th centuries.
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Lampshade said:
Kovnik sounds like an informal abbreviation of a military rank, while Polkovnik made me think of a professional polka dancer and progressively degraded to an underground dance-fighter.
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Close enough for Warhammer, which garbles every language it encounters. In Kislevarin it'd be an abbreviation of 'pulkovnik', since 'pulk' is the Kislevite equivalent of an army.

(Well, sort of. Pre-Katarin, Kislev's standing army is limited to the Bokha Palace Guard of Kislev City and the Streltsi of Erengrad, as well as oddities like the Gryphon Legion who act as mercenaries when Kislev is not under threat and the Kossars, descendants of the first Ungol tribe that joined the Gospodars, who are given a number of privileges in exchange for always being ready to be mobilized. The rest of Kislev's military is made up of basically mounted militia - Winged Lancers from Gospodar communities, horse archers from the Ungol communities. A 'pulk' is the term for a number of these militia units drawn together under the command of a Boyar or a Tsar.)

silentorphan said:
Mathilde is already the magic godmother to the presumed-future-Emperor-to-be, and, uh, I think she kind of sucks at it because she almost never spends time with him. Just his mother.
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Valmond said:
For us to listen to his stories about what he did today?
Murderizing chaos sorcerers is all fine and good, but a growing child needs more than that.
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I don't write every social interaction Mathilde ever has, just the more interesting ones. And I have no idea how to make interactions with very small children interesting.
 
DragonParadox said:
We should be able to use Rite of Way to smooth over any reinforcements path... and that one thing has made me reconsider the vote a bit. See the thing about going right to the top is that it would gain nothing but handing a vague portent of doom and then having to run right back, but with Rite of Way we would be able to get that army if army be needed into position faster.

The reason I am still holding out on changing it is that we do not really have any certainty that such an army would even be sent.
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Rite of Way has sharp limitations on the number of troops it can carry. Especially if they're cavalry, which move fastest. And either the troops will be marching from a large population center, which would make it impossible for Mathilde to cast the spell to carry them the entire way, or from several smaller population centers, which would mean Mathilde could only help a fraction of the troops.

Valmond said:
For us to listen to his stories about what he did today?
Murderizing chaos sorcerers is all fine and good, but a growing child needs more than that.
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1) This is a medieval society and most children don't get a huge amount of attention from their actual parents.
2) Mathilde isn't Mandred's mother. It's literally not her responsibility to look after him unless his parents die. It's their respobsibility.
 
Boney said:
I don't write every social interaction Mathilde ever has, just the more interesting ones. And I have no idea how to make interactions with very small children interesting.
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I have found that you can get a bit of millage by using the kid's PoV and use it to get some insight about the other person, but that is more for dealing with some kind of unknown. By now I would say all of us know Mathilde quite well :V

deathofrats0808 said:
Rite of Way has sharp limitations on the number of troops it can carry. Especially if they're cavalry, which move fastest. And either the troops will be marching from a large population center, which would make it impossible for Mathilde to cast the spell to carry them the entire way, or from several smaller population centers, which would mean Mathilde could only help a fraction of the troops.
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True, but that is still more reinforcements faster than they would otherwise have which makes Boris have a bit more of an appeal to me.
 
Boney said:
I don't write every social interaction Mathrilde ever has, just the more interesting ones. And I have no idea how to make interactions with very small children interesting.
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That sounds like an invitation. Who wants to take a stab at writing a few episodes of the Adventures of Manfred and his Godmother?
 
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