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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney announcement right before I head to bed. This is great, I'll have something to look forward to when I wake up!
 
You know. While we rolled low for magesight, it's arguably one of our best stats and bonus rolls outside of countering necromancy.

So we still probably got around a 70 and that roll.
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
You know. While we rolled low for magesight, it's arguably one of our best stats and bonus rolls outside of countering necromancy.

So we still probably got around a 70 and that roll.
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It tends to use Learning with a +10 for having Windsage. That roll should have come out to 78 if I'm counting right. Which is pretty good.
 
Whatever it was for, the battle is almost certainly done now. Everybody else has basically been curbstomped, and even if Drycha survived she knows we can see her now. She'll probably just cut and run.
 
You thought Kislev was a steppe because of the climate? It's a steppe because every random peasant can slaughter every single tree within their borders!
 
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Boney said:
Boney threw 100-faced dice Reason: R5: Kreml v Treeman Total: 102
Woodcutters 84: Trees 18
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(I wonder who's magesight was rolled for there, Mathilde or Drycha)
Edit: Are the Horse Archers the Tzar's group? I hope they are so that he gets to have fun with that 99. Him not getting to fight would be unfortunate for diplomatic hopes.
 
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You know, now the only risk is that Mathilde looked too alarmist, calling the Tsar in for nothing, the wood spirits were stomped so hard…

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Edit: Are the Horse Archers the Tzar's group? I hope they are so that he gets to have fun with that 99. Him not getting to fight would be unfortunate for diplomatic hopes.
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Probably the scouts Mathilde had outpaced on her way back to the battle field.
 
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Well, his son got a prestigious Manticore scalp and the Kreml Guard performed well. Same with the Witches, and the additional weight of numbers made it an even battle. Boris' potential future-history with those parties remains intact.

It was the Tsar's city rotas that were possibly more superfluous.
 
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Alratan said:
You know, now the only risk is that Mathilde looked too alarmist, calling the Tsar in for nothing, the wood spirits were stomped so hard…
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Yeah, what Byzantine said. She just said there was a forest spirit army, which there was. They decided that meant they needed to call everyone. And to be fair, it was the people Mathilde brought who really evened things out. Without a trio of ice Witches, the Kreml guard, or Boris around to keep the tree man, Drycha, and the manticore busy, those woodsmen probably would have had a much harder time.

Not to mention whatever the hell those branchwraiths were doing before now.
 
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All Mathilde said was that it was something from Athel Loren making a fuss.

Kislev responded in the appropriate way and brought out absurdly overwhelming force. Because fuck Athel Loren.
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Not just that, Kislev responded the way it did thanks to the sheer nonsense and shenanigan's Athel Loren"s force has being up too during their stay, especially with them having the impression that visits from them are very much not pleasant to deal with and also the fact they hate incursions immensely. Seriously the issue of the Villages is just one nonsense we know off they have being dealing with thanks to Athel loren.

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Ljiljana must have really talked you up to her fellows. "The force moving through the Shirokij is using magic to shield itself from direct observation, but I have been able to pierce it for long enough to identify their origin. It is a warhost from Athel Loren."

The Boyar has no response to that, but from her grimace Milica recognizes 'Athel Loren'. She mutters something to him and recognition flares in his eyes. "The forest of Daemon-Elves and maddened spirits in the land of horses in bunting?"

Perhaps one could find a few technical faults with that description, but that phrase does capture the essence of the children of Athel Loren. "The very same."

"What purpose could they have in Kislev?"

"They are unpredictable. When they have appeared in the Empire, it has always been to bring destruction. Sometimes to us, sometimes to some threat within our borders we were not yet aware of."
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"The ataman says that the Shirokij villages are besieged by some unknown force, it kills any that try to venture outside the walls, some have been killed in their beds. Only by sending multiple messengers at once was Ryazan able to get word through."
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After Loza translates that, Milica begins to speak with even more firmness in her tone than usual. "This is not the Empire," Loza relays. "We do not have islands of civilization in an ocean of trees and beasts. We do not accept entire realms of enemies within what we call our borders. This is our land. All of it, our land. They must die for stepping upon it."

"And the Tzar has never backed down from a fight in his life," Kirill says, pride and exasperation warring in his tone. "So yes. There will be a red day before this week is out."
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Another thing to keep in mind is that Kislev knows that Drycha's forces were likely expecting to fight a much smaller/less well equipped force. The whole "They set a trap but caught a bear" thing and all that.
 
…On a completely unrelated note, man is Ljiljana is going to be smug as fuck after this battle. Because she was right to talk up Mathilde like she did.
 
I do hope that this entire incident helps Nadezhda with her desire to ride Boris. Hopefully the post-battle celebrations will grant her that desire.
 
There is one positive for Drycha's side here: given the tree massacre that just occurred it should be obvious now that Kislev is a dwarf-puppet!
 
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Chop Away at Your Heart
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