@TotallyNotEvil Our Magic went up when we mastered all the petty and lesser spells, IIRC. So it's certainly possible that, say, adding Take No Heed and one Moderate complexity spell might bump us up, if whatever learning roll Boney makes goes well.
Like... a squad of elite Greatswords being able to trigger Magic Weapon to fight some incorporeal undead Wraith, rather than ineffectually swinging and dying? Yep, that would be useful.
Damn. Motivational speech from the boss.
I was going to say that the timeline of the disappearance matched the timeline of the handler buggering off...but now that I thought about it, they're on the same chain.
Anton you bloody amazing man! If the undead ARE coordinated a flanking press would prevent the coordination from being any use. They'd have to decide which province to focus on.
And if I'm not mistaken, this is going to be very profitable for Stirland as well, as the middleman.Something tickles at the back of your mind - something Julia mentioned, in one of her fits of ambition. It never seemed all that practical for Stirland, but maybe... You know Van Hal always has his maps available at the Council meetings, and you search through them for Ostermark's and spread it out on the table, and immediately spot what you're looking for.
Right at the bottom of Ostermark, you trace a line between the uppermost reaches of the River Blut and the Stir North.
"Ten, maybe fifteen miles," you say. "Manpower from Eisental, expertise from Karak Kadrin..."
Wilhelmina sucks in a breath. "It would be hideously expensive, but if it worked... it would give them access to trade with the southern Empire and beyond without having to go through Talabecland." You glance sideways at Schultz, who is staring wide-eyed down at the map. "It would be well worth the cost."
"But it would require the upper Stir to be tamed," you say.
Van Hal frowns down at the map. "I would prefer nobler motivations," he says, "but this would give them more of a vested interest in bringing Sylvania to heel. Assuming that it is what's motivating them, of course."
"It's entirely guesswork," you admit, "but I can't think of any other reason they'd invest so much, and in the way they are."
The sweet cinnamon roll, he managed to still be an idealist after years as a councilor in one of the most fucked provinces?!
So...sounds like Anton got Asarnil by the simple deed of being willing to listen to him tell his legend in a language he doesn't understand a bit of, and then applaud at the end despite not understanding a word.
Huh, quite interesting spread of languages here. Anton could probably start learning some languages in his free time.
I'm not sure if a dragon is overkill for Drakenhof but I'm willing to find out!
Ooo, the three line cycle. But one thing that Gustav didn't mention.
At least the Moot is in favor of a Stirland Elector who prefers to kill undead than fight over their land. But this is going to be expensive.
Of these options, I'm inclined to expand the attache program. It'd be another burden on our strained discretionary budget, but we need those eyes on the ground when the invasion kicks off.
Gong Farmers. This is the only profitable expansion option and we need the funding. Badly.
Time limited. I'd like to slap Ranald's Blessing on it and see if Asarnil has some particularly useful insights in his stories. He's an ancient elf lord, its less about having the stuff at all and more about getting the right tale out of him
Get Swole for Sylvania
Get Swot for Sylvania
And we probably want Shadowcloak or Take No Heed if we are acting in a scouting element
@BoneyM, do we already know whether our master can recommend someone suitable, or do we need to write him to figure out if we need to write him? That seems like a horrific tangle of actions. Or is this basically a "don't spend an action on it now, do that either during an invasion miniturn or next turn if the invasion goes on that long"?
Wow. Unless I drastically misinterpret what Van Hal just said, he told us "stop asking me for permission or advice and just do things". That's quite a statement.
Read: he just told us to do whatever we want with the intelligence network, I'm personally more concerned with defensive intrigue, but if we can get something up in time for the Elector's Meet...well we'd be hitting foreign spymasters who've so far ignored us. Once we contact they'd push back.
Maybe I'm cynical but I read it as "I can't openly tell you to spy on people I am technically not supposed to be spying on, here's a motivational speech and enough ambiguity that only you will take the fall."
Yeah, the phrasing is kind of dumb.
Earlier on Boney said we could totally use it to burn anyone that fell under the shadow of our hueg sword.
Because Mathilde believes that, from last turns reports.
Dont sell unless we figure out EXACTLY what it is and what it does. Also selling it announces to the world that we have valuables which might be more trouble than they are wort.
We have agents in said casualties. Gustav likes glory, so he just counts anyone who got wounded as healthy as long as they can heal by the end of the year. This is important because on campaign how many people got wounded is rather important, as it determines whether you're "we're perfectly fine, another go!" to "we're fine, but bad luck will break the unit" to "we can't fight boss"
Right, going back and rereading for that.
