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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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deathofrats0808 said:
Air superiority would have allowed the US to flatten the Viet Cong and the Taliban if they'd been willing to commit atrocities to do so. But the strategy of hiding among the populace is much much less of a thing at this srt of time period, and the reaction of just killing everyone civilian and guerilla alike far more practiced.
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The Ulthuani Air Force has much less firepower than the US one, comparatively speaking. Your great eagle or falcon charioteer won't do you much good to attack people hiding in the woods.

deathofrats0808 said:
And the Elven skimishers would be less outnumbered than you think. The Empire has Outriders, Pistoliers and Hunters, and that's kind of it for suitable skimishers. The Asur have Shadow Warriors, Ellyrian Reavers, Skycutters, Phoenixes, Great Eagles and arguably White Lions.
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In the case of an Asuryani invasion of the Empire, it wouldn't be just the regular imperial soldiers that would fight, but all the militias motivated by priests preaching about heathens invading Sigmar's sacred land.

Also, the number of different kind of troops has not much effect on the number of soldiers total. It doesn't matter if there's 10 different elvish types of units if the total number of human ones outnumber them 10 to 1.

NavySeel said:
To be honest I'm not really getting the sudden paranoia over Ulthuan sure they might not like the project, but it seems much more likely they would try diplomacy before attempting assassination or war.
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I completely agree with you, no one is saying that Ulthuan will invade the Empire any time soon. It's just fun to theorise a bit 🙂

NavySeel said:
Trying to hide the project from Ulthuan seems like the worst thing we could do to be honest, in their minds they're the defenders of the world, so why would the Empire be hiding this?
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Because of their reaction.

NavySeel said:
Which is why they trust the human residents of Albion with so much control over arguably the most vital part of it?
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Probably because they couldn't do much about it, even the Asur can't cross the mist. Also, it's possible those humans were taught by the OO.


NavySeel said:
And with out the old world do you think the Vortex would work? Or Ulthuan would be able to keep afloat?
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If Ulthuan stops floating, the mother of all tsunamis will devastate the coasts of all the nations bordering the Great Ocean. Half of the Empire will be wiped from the map, so it's not really a good bargaining chip.
 
LightLan said:
We don't have enough CF.

We need 40 for 8 power stones.

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We don't need to keep the power stones; we just need to borrow them, then we can return 7 orbs of sorcery for their trouble. And keep the Ulgu one for ourselves, of course.

Speaking of, what does having an orb of sorcery do for your ability to cast spells?
 
I think my favourite part of revealing the Orbs once they're made is that Mathilde will have to explain the Snake. Which is just a beautiful sucker punch. Going right from ORBS to "Oh yeah I trapped a daemon snake between life and death in a mirror box... huh? No? I did this years and years ago. Back in Stirland."
 
I love Cython, and it likely has the competence for this, but I don't think its interest in a library would line up that much with our intent for the library, and its quite callous.

I unfortunately don't think I'd trust it with this.

I'm leaning most heavily towards Spideys right now, but I'm still thinking.
 
LadyLynn said:
I love Cython, and it likely has the competence for this, but I don't think its interest in a library would line up that much with our intent for the library, and its quite callous.

I unfortunately don't think I'd trust it with this.

I'm leaning most heavily towards Spideys right now, but I'm still thinking.
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Yeah, I agree. Dragon Librarian is a rad idea, but I don't think it's actually a practical one.
 
Personally, I am thinking orphans.

Good deed + fanatical workforce, which is Good for operational security. Security is mostly handled by being in the Kharak, so a staff inclined to protect Mathilde's secrets sounds like a nice thing to have.

Personally, I think that the spider librarians would be a very hard sell for potential visitors.
 
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LadyLynn said:
I love Cython, and it likely has the competence for this, but I don't think its interest in a library would line up that much with our intent for the library, and its quite callous.

I unfortunately don't think I'd trust it with this.

I'm leaning most heavily towards Spideys right now, but I'm still thinking.
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Agree re the dragon. I am initially thinking that we train the K8P residents, but am willing to be convinced that the spiders are better.
 
In any case, if we wanna make these orbs of power, I think for the purposes of this Mathilde can take a loan on her College Favour if she explained what she was doing to her bosses. Yes, it'd mean Mathilde would have to give up the delicious look of confusion on their faces from her galaxy-sized flex, but sometimes personal satisfaction has to be sacrificed for affordability.
 
Boney said:
Nobody's tried it, but it'd probably be something like 'caster can cast one Cataclysm spell, it's impossible to counter, and then they die because they just consumed an energy ball the size of their head'. Their use in enchanting is generally what's focused on.
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Ulgu would be totally fine then because we'd be inhaling it... right? :V
 
Execute/Dumbo said:
In any case, if we wanna make these orbs of power, I think for the purposes of this Mathilde can take a loan on her College Favour if she explained what she was doing to her bosses. Yes, it'd mean Mathilde would have to give up the delicious look of confusion on their faces from her galaxy-sized flex, but sometimes personal satisfaction has to be sacrificed for affordability.
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My current idea is there'd be a 'use CF to do it and have the Orbs of Sorcery to do with as she will' option and a 'explain what the plan is to the Colleges, get them all to chip in a power stone, and then rewards (if it all goes according to plan) but no galaxy flex moment' option.
 
You know if we just show up with Orbs of Sorcery as some are proposing the Colleges might think the elves gifted them to us or something. After all if Teclis can make them then it stands to reason that other elves might be able to as well.
 
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