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Every god, every time they see Mathilde: If I fits, I sits.
Ranald, every time that happens: Well, I can't exactly argue with that, can i?
Ranald, every time that happens: Well, I can't exactly argue with that, can i?
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Ericwinter
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I don't really think we want to find out what Drycha can do when casting from stealth, either. And that's basically garunteed to succeed if we ignore her, while the three dryads are only a possibility if we ignore them.
Also, is this the +40 one to killing high-ranking enemies?
Also, context on where this came from? Is seems like a throwaway line but I don't know lore.
With Kragg's blade we have the most outright powerful weapon on the battlefield. The one most likely to injure a Treeman. However it is also the thing most likely to one-shot Mathilde, belt and seed be damned. Plus it is an obvious threat with already being engaged by people we don't synergise with.
Probably the least of the threats, both in damage potential and value. Loosing Boris would be terrible but I'm confident he can take a Manticore.
Plus it will be a nice date for him and Nadezhda.
Potentially a very big threat and no one appears to be doing anything about them. Plus they are a comparatively soft target.
On the downside killing them won't be particularly flashy or impressive. Unless we empty the Flask at them?
Risky. And again, something that won't be as readily apparent to our allies.
If we were going to do this we should have started with the reinforcements.
I think what you're thinking of was a possible end-of-arc trait that wasn't taken.
Ericwinter
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What? I don't think we have anything like that.
What Wood Elves? As far as we know there are just forest spirits present.
Ericwinter
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Also, I don't really want to stick Mathilde in combat with three enemies, whether magical or melee. One person who doesn't expect to be found, that can be dealt with quick and easy. Three people out in the open? Mathilde could be really quick and kill them all, but it's much more likely at least one will have a chance to react, and as people say, they're pretty dangerous themselves.
Also, I'll point out that the dragon flask leaves Mathilde blind for a few moments, IIRC. Probably not the best thing to open with when there will be at least one more unoccupied enemy, to say nothing of it being a battle magic enchanted item that might draw just as much attention as anything Mathilde tries to cast herself.
Also, I'll point out that the dragon flask leaves Mathilde blind for a few moments, IIRC. Probably not the best thing to open with when there will be at least one more unoccupied enemy, to say nothing of it being a battle magic enchanted item that might draw just as much attention as anything Mathilde tries to cast herself.
Yes. Assuming the chosen engagement goes well, Mathilde will re-evaluate the battlefield afterward and what she does after that will be a new vote based on new information.
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+40 was an "Assassin" trait which we didn't take.
WRT context: Athel Loren is the forest near/in Brettonia, home of xenophobic Asrai (Wood Elves) and the spirits that attack us now. Loren Arhain is Forest of Shadows, the one we are in now (technically it is called Shirokij Forest here since we are in Kislev, but it is the same forest). The thought is strange due to two reasons - firstly it uses Eltharin (Elven) name for the Forest of Shadows, which Mathilde didn't use before and secondly Mathilde knows jack shit about which forest is friend to which.
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Well, he can try hissing and smacking them on the nose. 😾
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Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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See, that suggests he's charging rent, and that Mathilde is some sort of divine apartment or something. How many gods do you really trust to earn their deposit back?
I feel like people are underestimating Drycha when they advocate for going for the leader. Usually the logic is sound, and has been for all the times we've done it before, but Drycha is the first "big name" we've gone up against, and I really think we'll be at best evenly matched overall. And that's being optimistic.
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But Mathilde doesn't know that this is Drycha, this knowledge is 100% metagaming.
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I'd argue that taking out the three spellcasters is optimal. There's three, so they can influence multiple fights or strongly influence one. They are also grouped together, so an alpha strike with the flask could one-shot them, allowing us to quickly help elsewhere.
But isn't the manticore in the air, the spellcasters in the enemy backline, and the leader hiding outside the the battle?
We aren't fighting wood elves?
I was imagining this was them in my head, my bad. So the enemy we hear approaching us are the actual wood elves? Or are there just no wood elves at all?
Am I actually confusing the terms? Wood elves can refer to the elves that want to kill us right? Like the Drycha, the dryads, and the army attacking Kislev.
Thanks for the lore
Ericwinter
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Oh, if it came down to an actual fight, probably, but this is an assassination with her main advantage—stealth—already failing from a cursory glance across the battlefield. If Mathilde actually focuses she will very quickly know where she is, and Drycha won't know that. Because why would she be expecting someone with such bullshit Windsight to be on hand? Especially given what she thought of the Kislev forces originally.
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Kind of just want to shred the Chimera's wings with our shadow swords in passing, and let Boris finish it off while we go after the leader. Also, I kind of half-expect that any trees that the Dryads manage to wake are going to turn on them instead as invasive weeds within their forest.
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I'm torn between going for the mages (always go for the mages), or going for Drycha, before she manages to get the local greenery under some sort of control. Because I fear that if she's left alone, she might get it to cooperate, one way or another.
Here is something that is not metagaming: Mathilde is getting insight into how the forest is resisting the tree army. In spite of this, she still thinks that the dryads can accomplish what they are attempting.
The choice is essentially between chasing an unknown of unknown capabilities and dealing with a clear and present danger.
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There are probably no elves here, no.
Drycha hates them too.
Drycha is here, deciding that we should engage her while she still thinks that she is hidden instead of giving her the time to act on her own isn't really underestimating her. I just think that now would be the best chance to attack her. Once the battle starts to turn against her, she could easily try to gank Mathilde to protect her spellcasters ( or anyone else that is attacking them) or the leader of our Army to make it break.
In a battle between to Ulgu casters , I'm valuing the surprise we would get from attacking now highly. She isn't stupid, and she probably knows that she should act before our reinforcements arrive, so that she can defeat this part of our forces before her army gets overwhelmed.
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