- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Y'know, like we planned.
No need to be salty because the vote option most of the thread chose actually worked.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Y'know, like we planned.
No need to be salty because the vote option most of the thread chose actually worked.
- Location
- Utrecht
Look at it the other way round. We were underestimating Mathilde
Skill doesn't increase linearly with age—everyone has a physical peak they reach at some point. For Drycha, that appears to be in the 20-25 range. For most humans, that's the 10-15 range. For human heroes, that's 15-25.
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- Outside the Box
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- She/Her
Drycha is too busy casting her teleport to defend herself against the Dragonflask's attack - and the flask vaporizes what it's used on. If it hits, it will be lethal. With the rest of the battle having gone heavily in Kislev's favor, I think everything's lined up to make the Dragonflask the optimal option here.
This battle was a really strong example of the importance of information. Drycha's forces flubbed their scouting rolls, and then Drycha didn't know enough about Kislev to pick up that something was off. She thought that her plan was still working like she had hoped, and that she was up against either Bretonnian peasant archers or Empire huntsmen, where the presence of the Kreml Guard would have been a massive 'oh fuck' moment for anyone that knew Kislev's military. The match-up she thought she was in was one she could easily win even with the disadvantages of being so far from home and in an unfriendly forest. The one she actually ended up fighting was one that she never would have knowingly walked into.
Drycha lost this battle before it started. Know the enemy and know yourself, defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win, and all that jazz. If she had succeeded in just one of the scouting rolls things would have been very different.
No. You can cast a spell in such a way to account for the massive power increase from a power stone, but counterspells need to be constantly adjusted on the fly to respond to what the enemy is doing so you don't have the time and attention to alter your approach to take advantage of a huge rush of power.
Drycha lost this battle before it started. Know the enemy and know yourself, defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win, and all that jazz. If she had succeeded in just one of the scouting rolls things would have been very different.
No. You can cast a spell in such a way to account for the massive power increase from a power stone, but counterspells need to be constantly adjusted on the fly to respond to what the enemy is doing so you don't have the time and attention to alter your approach to take advantage of a huge rush of power.
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She managed to blind doge an invisible strike, and then almost escaped if it wasn't for the invisible attacker also wielding the greatest runesword to be made in the last few centuries.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
Man, she is probably hating herself for that right now.
Codex
Fantasy Addict
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- She/Her
Mathilde isn't one of the best counterspellers in the world unless you're talking about Necromancers. Ulthuan and Lustria are full of casters who are better than her. Even Athel Loren has much better casters.
The current situation is greatly in Mathilde's favor, but it's best not to get a big head about it.
Mathilde's counterspell/dispel bonuses only activate against Waaagh, Necromancy, and Dhar spells though. Drycha isn't using any of those, so we only benefit from our native understanding of Ulgu.
Which is still pretty high, what with magic 9 and learning 29, so I give us fair chance to win it, but we don't get any "extras" on top of that.
Mathilde actually doesn't have any general counterspelling traits, and her constact success on that front owes to her rolling really well every single time she did it (am I misremembering? Did Mathilde ever roll badly on a counterspell roll?) and if nothing else this update demonstrated that you can't count on Mathilde rolling well every time.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
Only against green skins and necromancers. We don't actually have a pure counterspelling trait.
We do, however, have really good learning, so we're still pretty good.
- Location
- Earth
Ljiljana is also right there, she presumably gets an action as well.
Might counterspell too.
Well she did not counter Evil Dumbledore that one time he almost killed her but for the fact that she was wearing a better counter than any mortal mage could manage.
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- Utrecht
Imagine drycha dying without Mathilde realising who she killed.
An ignominious death.
Like poor Gotrek.
Seems legit
An ignominious death.
Like poor Gotrek.
Seems legit
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
She was a little busy with her innards being outards there.
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- florida
WOODSMAN SMASH!!!
Mathy knows she was the leader of the force and I am betting that if we get Imperial and maybe Bretonian books on the Asrai we will find out that there is only one user of the wind of shadow among the spirits of that strange wood
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Random thought: Drycha likely has a fair few Grudges to her name, so Mathilde killing her would count as a dwarf striking off a grudge.
Lazurman
This is fine.
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- Classified
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- He/Him
Riiight... Almost forgot about that.
With him being dead, how many nasty gribbly things are gonna be left un-Slayer'd?
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Don't you have to cut down her tree to perma-kill a dryad?
Lumberjacks vs living trees—who would win?
Turns out it's the lumberjacks.
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- Outside the Box
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- She/Her
I have to mention that it was incredibly satisfying to see Mathilde's utilization of the Rune of the Unknown put into full effect here. Branulhune isn't just a sword that Hits Hard - it's a world-class weapon that can be used to fight in the big leagues proper.
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"How much would a human have gotten done in that time" is not the correct question to ask when analyzing old immortals. The same mutability and instability that is humanity's greatest weakness is also their greatest strength. Drycha is what she is, and has been for a long time.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
There's way too many butterflies to even consider anything.