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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Deathbybunnies said:
A gyrocarriage's engines are extremely loud. This was not a stealth insertion. If anything was there to object, they'd have shown up when Mathilde had Adela fly one into the heart of the clearing. And burning a bigger hole would hardly be a problem with Adela there. A Nexus is, as described multiple times in the update, just a big rock really. A team if dwarves could have it hitched up securely in less than an hour - more than long enough when a Waaagh has pulled every goblin in earshot away to attack the beastmen.
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I think the big rock might be a little too heavy to be pulled up via gyrocopter at all.
 
Parabola said:
If Bretonnia signs the Bokha Palace Accords, they'd be obliged to reveal their controlled nexuses, so in fact it's probably not much of something we'd need to negotiate - if they want waystones, they will sign. It's practically guaranteed.

Negotiations would be for stuff beyond that... which could end up being 'help us retake X nexus'.
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Just to note, signing the Accords is not necessarily a straightforward thing. It requires unanimous agreement from every existing signatory before Bretonnia could do so. Perhaps, as a condition for waystones, they could be required to be bound by the Accords before they actually become signatories (with the implicit possibility that they never become signatories), though I suppose it's also possible that as part of preparing for negotiations with Bretonnia, Mathilde could get from all of the current signatories what they would want from Bretonnia in exchange for allowing them to join.
 
Deathbybunnies said:
For a very long time, a great deal of the Badlands was ruled by human tribes, who were vassals to Nehekhara. They'd have directed the flow South to Nehekhara - a much more logical way of drawing resources down than just tearing out the nexuses, when the whole point of these things is to be pulling magic in. Especially when, again, Nehekhara had its own version of the Waystone network in its pyramids.

A gyrocarriage's engines are extremely loud. This was not a stealth insertion. If anything was there to object, they'd have shown up when Mathilde had Adela fly one into the heart of the clearing. And burning a bigger hole would hardly be a problem with Adela there. A Nexus is, as described multiple times in the update, just a big rock really. A team if dwarves could have it hitched up securely in less than an hour - more than long enough when a Waaagh has pulled every goblin in earshot away to attack the beastmen.
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There was no nexus to direct the flow of energy to in Nehekhara. Nehekhara could not have any nexuses without taking those nexuses from somewhere, like the Badlands. Nehekhara's network put the magic into the rivers. It did not use leylines. Nexuses are purely for networks that use the leyline transmission method. The Badlands were fought over between the greenskins and humans ever since the War of the Ancients ended. The first to take the badlands seem to have been the greenskins, who then got pushed back by Nehekhara and back and forth.

Note how Boney described moving a waystone in the last quote. Waystones are infinitely more replaceable and seem to be much smaller than nexuses. You are also going to have to convince dwarves to use this strange exotic method of getting the nexus that heavily risks destroying the nexus when they could just use the traditional method instead.

It was not a stealth insertion, yes. It was a rapid insertion. Mathilde got in, and got out instantly. Additionally, imagine those goblins coming back to a hole burnt in their canopy. They aren't morons. Mathilde couldn't have done it then, if I assume that it is possible in the first place, she only had her gyrocarriage. She would have come back, to goblins aware that someone baited them away to investigate their most holy shrine. That calls for the goblins to be brutally cunning in preparation for the next attempt.

Boney said:
That is, after all, the ultimate example of this technique, both that it's possible and of the inherent problem with it. Nehekhara was built atop the Great Vitae River and was incorporated into their version of the Waystone Network, which worked great for fueling about two and a half golden ages, but then stopped working great.
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Boney said:
Do the people on this project with more knowledge of Nexuses have reason to believe that rivers will need constructions on a similar scale as nexi to handle a Nexus-level of energy?
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Probably not. A leyline between nexuses is carrying all of that in a single 'pipeline'. The riverine methods use the flow of water (and we're talking about an absolutely mind-boggling amount of water) to do most of the work and are just using an artificial 'pipeline' for the Dhar.
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Boney said:
moving a [waystone] that would weigh dozens of tons without damaging it even slightly when the cutting edge of transportation technology goes 'neigh' is likewise not the sort of job anyone would be rushing to volunteer for.
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Parabola said:
It takes way more for something like that, I think. If it were as simple as being hero-worshiped, Magnus would be a god himself, wouldn't he? Even if it was just a minor one subordinate to Sigmar.

Mathilde is still several steps below that.
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Boney said:
For better and for worse, Warhammer Fantasy is a setting where there are exceptional individuals who can achieve things that are impossible under normal circumstances. The fundamental metaphysics of the setting bend around the existence of Lords and Heroes who can individually change the fate of entire battles.
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I think that what I am asking, is not if Matilde is already a deity, but if these resonances in the warp have meaningful effects in the creation and augmentation of these hero units.

Speaking of Magnus, didn't Magnus do a lot of things that were both improbable, and possibly could have been strongly helped by a gathering chorus in the warp around the individual "Magnus."

I am wondering if being actively worshipped like this, or having been the inspiration for a legend or whatever, has narrative effects.

Fear of Cavalry spawns Red Riders. What does a common belief in a grey rider that fights evil and gives benefits(not sure what they believe) create?

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Maybe that is a potential post facto explanation for (often somewhat supernatural) traits that come at the end of a campaign or long segment.
 
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