It's going to take Y E A R S to reclaim all of Karak Eight Peaks. If we stay now, we're going to stay until the job is done. Leaving later, for any significant length of time, would be like leaving a job half-finished.
I don't WANT to stay here for the next couple of years.
Not that past results are proof of future performance... but you do realize at the current rate taking the peaks will be around half a week of battle followed by months of sitting around waiting for reinforments?
More like Fall of Poland than Fall of France, really
Poland got squished between the over powered Nazi war-machine and an infinite number of communist monkeys... and still managed to generate a tale of defensive awesomeness with like 3000 guys versus 150-200 thousand... meanwhile France only lasted as long as it did because it took so long to cross it.... also the world was reeling over the inexplicable true that Belgium had an army in the first place... then France made them look like gods of combat.
We didn't manage to purchase the enchanting equipment for our lab until turn 9. At which point the campaign to clear the hills was rapidly approaching. We had a lot on our plate.
*suddenly dozens of paniked Tzechian mages storm the 8 peaks from all the wrong directions in an attempt to stop the growth of the bring of war goes faster. Planning fast enough to slow her down is attrition incarnate*
I honestly love that, both the idea, and the catch phrase. I wonder if a human has ever experimented with literally magical alcohol before?
This just makes me think MC ends up brewing a snek juice laced booze that give you ablative magic resistance when drunk... but also causes your hair to do its best to poof up in an afro that is moving psychedelic yawn colored and colored based on the local prevalent mystic Winds. The real issue is hats and helm tend to fly off if your hair is too long.
Well, there was that plan to marry lots of wizards into the nobility. We could revisit that
Yeah that? That sounds like a way to end up with a lot of random ex-nobel mages in the future. I expect that to go about as well as ditching spare nobels into the priesthood of the Catholic Church... AKA a ban on mages having kids so entiled twits can't donate all the Colleges stuff to their offspring.
Correction: Having her journeymanlings write a paper. And frankly, I think that's hilarious.
Its only really a good idea if MC makes a separate research paper on the effects of randomly chosen vaguely worded advice on the paper writing abilities of mages of other winds.
I hope you're wrong. France was on the winning side, after all. And the idea of a successful Orc Résistance is hilarious but also horrible.
You never see a purple Orc...
That would involve 85-90% or the orcs trying to become dwarves or humans while 10-15% of the orcs form the resistance and are supported by outside orc groups. After that whole only Gork thing they are going to get purged for being insane.
Somebody pointed out that some contributors lost upwards of 20% of their forces, a figure that would absolutely destroy a historical real-world army.
Warhammer, and especially dawi, are made of sterner stuff I suppose.
In addition to what vsm said, that doesn't include is was 20% loses AFTER four different conquests. So its 1/20(5%) loses the first battle and 1/19(5.3%) then 1/18(5.6%) then 1/17(5.9%)... assuming the loses are averaged out. Considering the other side was basically completely obliterated on each of those battles, that was some insane Kill-to-Death ratios going on.
Though the tactical implications of 'Grey wizard unitnentionally offs the a war boss and makes them ineffectual at the leading' I'm not sure the tactics books can really add much new from these battles.
