Well fun fact about that, you can actually sharpen a wooden blade to be just as sharp as a steel one. The only issue is that the wood is terrible at edge retention so it would only be good for a couple of swings at most.
But if there was a way to mitigate this issue then a wooden blade could work.
Yeah, there are metals that have similar associations, but then you run into the hard facts of metallurgy. If you want a sword to be good as a sword, you need a certain amount of durability and an ability to hold an edge, and unless you're very lucky the handful of metals that would have associations with your wind would be working against that. Maybe mercury would have the right properties for a given task, but I shudder to think what it would take to make an entire amalgam sword. The internet tells me you could make something maybe suitable with tin and silver and copper, but Mathilde wouldn't be able to hit up PubMed via Google.
This was very likely the best and only opportunity to use it on this scale. The Citadel is probably the largest structure in the world except for Zhar-Naggarond.
This was very likely the best and only opportunity to use it on this scale. The Citadel is probably the largest structure in the world except for Zhar-Naggarond.
And yes, clearly other voters preferred the dull or dull and high risk/low reward options. That means, basically, that they were tragically misguided.
We had the opportunity to be great, but even mediocrity turned out to be too much.
Indeed it is. I look at the choices made for either the boring option or the high risk minimum possible reward option and I find my opinion strongly validated.
Bit nitpicky, but the canonical tallest structure in the world is the White Tower of Hoeth. And I doubt the citadel is actually that large. Like, it's definitely a big fortification, but I imagine that a city like Middenheim would be larger.
I used the word largest not tallest for a reason. Each individual structure in Middenheim is certainly smaller a giant volcanic plug like Middenheim is a natural feature like a mountains and so apparently doesn't qualify as a shadow.
This was very likely the best and only opportunity to use it on this scale. The Citadel is probably the largest structure in the world except for Zhar-Naggarond.
And yes, clearly other voters preferred the dull or dull and high risk/low reward options. That means, basically, that they were tragically misguided.
We had the opportunity to be great, but even mediocrity turned out to be too much.
No SV members were insulted or fictionally races advocated for genocide.
I merely mourned what could have been. Mediocrity might well be what people want for Mathilde, and who am I to judge them for it. For a Warhammer wizard, it might even make sense (not for the Explosion option though, as that should require an absolutely crazy amount of spellcasting to paper over the many cracks).
This was very likely the best and only opportunity to use it on this scale. The Citadel is probably the largest structure in the world except for Zhar-Naggarond.
Which is mitigated by it forgetting that we're pushing a lot of mercenaries into a meat grinder of a citadel with less than maximum morale and a faded Ranald blessing.
While certainly the plan would flop if significant reinforcements could reach the Citadel, the plan would ALSO flop if the push to take the Citadel wasn't hard enough. Tunnel fighting with Black Orcs will be intensely unpleasant for the average human mercenary as it is.
With regards to effects:
-On those lines, the Explosives plan would be ideal if it succeeded because no orcs are getting past that entrance for the rest of the battle, no matter what they do. Success means no orcs. Failure means nothing happens and a hot exfiltration with a civilian in tow.
-Behind that is Shadows, which has failure points if they could dispel or otherwise stop Mathilde from recasting it every few minutes, or otherwise bull through an acid bath.
-Behind that is Fire and Projectiles, which would very likely reduce and delay the number of reinforcements but would find it difficult to stop all the reinforcements.
But ordered by probability of success:
-Projectiles is the least likely to outright fail. Its a well proven, reliable, dwarfly tool. Unfortunately even if it goes perfectly theres going to be some reinforcements.
-Fire is more personally risky for those attempting it, but the Rangers are well experienced at such tactics, and possess the tools for sneaking through the camp lighting fires wherever nobody is looking. However, barring very good luck, its not going to distract greenskins from a fight forever, though it would mean whoever comes out are a little crispy.
-Then you have Explosives and Shadow, both of which are directly contested by the enemy, Explosives being a stealth vs perception as we slip over/around the Citadel with the invisible engineer/miner on a rope. Shadow being repeated casting checks against dispellers, and possibly stealth vs perception(but frankly while they're melting in acid they won't spot too good).
Indeed it is. I look at the choices made for either the boring option or the high risk minimum possible reward option and I find my opinion strongly validated.
I'm really pretty sad that Mathilde is presenting boring plan #1 and boring and insanely Rube Goldberg plan #2. Any pan that involves turning a dwarf into a balloon should be dismissed a crack because it's too dumb to exist.
Warhammer Fantasy is frequently dumb and crack and silly, it's part of the charm. The football hooligan/British chav orcs. The God of Atheists. There's a chaos mutation where your genitals say bye-bye and run off to the chaos wastes, and depending on edition/version, you may be left with either a Barbie doll crotch, or a second mouth that loudly whispers bad ideas at the most embarrassing moments. The RPG book is studded with remarks like "What's the worst that could happen?" (well, your genitals could run off to the wastelands, for one) and there's a bunch of silly names like the skaven Ratling Gun (Gatling Gun) or Graf Von Saponatheim (Once Upon A Time) scattered across the setting.
Yeah, there are metals that have similar associations, but then you run into the hard facts of metallurgy. If you want a sword to be good as a sword, you need a certain amount of durability and an ability to hold an edge, and unless you're very lucky the handful of metals that would have associations with your wind would be working against that. Maybe mercury would have the right properties for a given task, but I shudder to think what it would take to make an entire amalgam sword. The internet tells me you could make something maybe suitable with tin and silver and copper, but Mathilde wouldn't be able to hit up PubMed via Google.
That sounds like a job for an elf smith(if one would bend that far), a dwarf smith(if you could talk one into cooperating with an experiment, maybe if you got a younger smith who hadn't gotten all properly traditional yet) or a Gold Wizard to help analyze the metal.
That sounds like a job for an elf smith(if one would bend that far), a dwarf smith(if you could talk one into cooperating with an experiment, maybe if you got a younger smith who hadn't gotten all properly traditional yet) or a Gold Wizard to help analyze the metal.
Yeah, there are metals that have similar associations, but then you run into the hard facts of metallurgy. If you want a sword to be good as a sword, you need a certain amount of durability and an ability to hold an edge, and unless you're very lucky the handful of metals that would have associations with your wind would be working against that. Maybe mercury would have the right properties for a given task, but I shudder to think what it would take to make an entire amalgam sword. The internet tells me you could make something maybe suitable with tin and silver and copper, but Mathilde wouldn't be able to hit up PubMed via Google.
Yeah, I've been looking and there don't appear to be many metals or elements that associate with Ulgu very well. You get phosphorus and such, but it's just not suitable for swordmaking.
I used the word largest not tallest for a reason. Each individual structure in Middenheim is certainly smaller a giant volcanic plug like Middenheim is a natural feature like a mountains and so apparently doesn't qualify as a shadow.
The White Tower is almost certainly larger than the Citadel. The thing is more than a mile tall, taller than any IRL building.
Sure, but I seem to recall that a) the buildings being different doesn't matter as long as the shadows touch and b) Middenheim and similar cities having walls.
That's not how you word disagreement.
Like, if I went up to my coworker at work and went "well okay on call we agreed to your idea, but just so you know it is boring and dull and you do not want our project to be great if you supported it", it would...not be appreciated as just a disagreement.
Because it isn't.
Questing means votes decide what happens. Everyone knew this when they first clicked the link to this thread. If your preferred option doesn't win, please accept that without lashing out, and if that means not posting at all until you've cooled down, then so be it. I absolutely will not accept this thread turning into a place where bitterness dominates.
Remember that we don't need it to be a global association. A single ingot that has been sitting in the shadow cat by another container that was illuminated by a faintly glowing tune for the last few thousand years should hopefully
And also experimenting with metals is expensive, and aside from the Gold College, the typical Magister isn't exactly supposed to be wealthy or working with skilled metallurgists.
Depends on the college really. Celestial wizards for example have no strictures against making a fortune and tend to easily do so with their ability to see the future and grant good fortune.
There's also going to be outliers in the Colleges such as with Mathilde who owns quite the fortune. Presumably out there is a Amber wizard with a liking for gold and a Jade wizard who charges for her services.
Well fun fact about that, you can actually sharpen a wooden blade to be just as sharp as a steel one. The only issue is that the wood is terrible at edge retention so it would only be good for a couple of swings at most.
But if there was a way to mitigate this issue then a wooden blade could work.
I mean the explosion option is going to require an absolute shit load of spell casting. Loads of air walking and other shadow spells to work. It's very dangerous.
That's not how you word disagreement.
Like, if I went up to my coworker at work and went "well okay on call we agreed to your idea, but just so you know it is boring and dull and you do not want our project to be great if you supported it", it would...not be appreciated as just a disagreement.
Because it isn't.
We didn't agree. You won and I lost. Next time I will do my very best to win. I still believe you're wrong and your premises that lead to your decision are wrong, so happening to temporarily lose in this round doesn't change that. Why pretend otherwise?
We didn't agree. You won and I lost. Next time I will do my very best to win. I still believe you're wrong and your premises that lead to your decision are wrong, so happening to temporarily lose doesn't change that. Why pretend otherwise?
We're not asking you to pretend. We're asking you not to whine and/or denigrate other voters.
Anonymity means being expected to behave like an adult, even if you may have IRL issues or habits that are normally fine for you. People here don't know you or your circumstances, so netiquette ends up paramount.
