Out of all possible solutions, I'm reasonably confident that "yeet some knights at the problem" would be the most likely for the Bretonnians themselves to attempt. I imagine we'd have to supply rather a lot of them to move the needle on that front.
This might be premature as we haven't even bought the books yet, but...conditional on the books being very promising, I do think there's a place to consider recruiting the Damsels now. Mind you, I'm not saying it's a slam dunk, and I've gone over the reasons why not in my post - and the comments by the Damsel do seem to mostly confirm what I suspected regarding the terms of the Damsels - however: If it is true that the Damsels want our help with unrelated issues OR a show of results, and if the Father does work, then...would literal divine intervention count as something more tangible than dreams? I think it very well might. Trust and faith is the description of the coin. Trust implies taking Mathilde at her word, but faith implies believing that Mathilde can actually deliver on promises.
They have also probably tried overwhelming magical might.
It's possible the problem they're facing is not one that can be solved by their standard military doctrine. Mountain warfare is a bit difficult for horses, to say the least.
Yeah pretty much. While their knights are still powerful combatants on foot, there probably isn't all that many of them and the "chaff" of their classic attending army is just not equipped to deal with heavily armed and armored Orcs. Who have chaos powers to boot.
A crack squad of Dwarven commandos leading a regiment of Carcassonne Shepherds using guerilla tactics with Mathilde as the leader of the operation might do the trick, but it requires some significant investment.
Wait, what? Where did them dealing with Chaos Orcs come from?
It's in the update where we go to Carcassone to ask them about hosting the WP. Dealing with the Choas Orks was the price they asked for.
Iron Orcs are Black Orcs except Chaotic:
Unlikely. The whole point of a machine gun is that you don't really need to aim, you just point the gun in the general direction of the enemy, and throw enough bulets that they die. A dwarf might be a better shot than a human gunner, but that's irrelevant because the design of the weapon is to remove human ability from the picture as much as possible.
Sure, but it's still going to hurt, it's still will need less manpower to use them, and orcs come in big blobs. They won't have the discipline to spread out and advance carefully.
On the other hand that very toughness and tendency to just keep coming may actually lead to more Orc casualties.
Oh, I wasn't saying there aren't advantages to using machine guns against Orcs, just that using less bullets than IRL is probably not one of them.
That's usually the Winged Hussards that come down the mountainside 😏
