They don't smell like a Skaven. No seriously, Skaven senses of smell are super strong, and part of their inter-species communication is based around whatever kind of musk their secreting. You can walk like a Skaven, talk like a Skaven, kill like a Skaven, but if you don't smell like a Skaven, you aren't one.
There wan't anything that was blindingly obviously a Grey Wizard specifically, and there's no guarantee that whoever saw it would spread that information, much less that their leadership would believe and incorporate it into their strategy. They additionally possess no means of confirming of the existence of a Grey Wizard, much less that they would waste such an asset on an improbability when their in the middle of open conflict.
I'm not sure which argument you are referencing exactly? Can you expand on this please?
You are basically saying that the option can't fail and I can guarantee you that isn't true. There are failure modes, and those failures modes do not boil down to 'skaven showed up and beat the spider what good,' it's simply too restricting from Boney's point of view. If we fail the roll, we will have failed the roll and Boney will come up with a justification. Justifying by having Mors, currently pressed on three sides, jumping on us seems the least likely in general (though not if we also catastrophically fail rolls on the action with Johann) while failure to adequately find/choose/prepare an appropriate location seems much more likely. Probably there are other options that I haven't considered but unless they are directly related to Skaven attacks the proposed synergy still fails to be.
I actually didn't know that. My bad.
Nonplussed at the claims that the poke mission can be both stealthy and unlikely to impact Clan Mors and also at the same time be disrupting Clan Mors to help the spiders resettle Action succeed.
Oops, I misremembered what I actually voted for. I have now edited your plan into my vote.
Sure. I won't continue this line of conversation after that, though.
I mean, they don't have a pure predator/prey conception of relationships. They have the concept of cooperation with other beings like them. We have persuaded them that we are beings like them, despite not being spiders.
I am way, way more worried about dwarves and humans exploiting them than I am about them turning on us. They seem to think of us as other-We, but I think it is very unlikely that dwarves will think of them as other-dwarves, with the rights and respect that entails.
Does Mathilde even know that Warpstone slowly transforms into crystallized Dhar? Unless it gets covered in the Liber Mortis, I don't see Mathilde ever researching Warpstones beyond how to dispose of.
I mean, I don't see the risks? What specific dangers are you worried about?
We just picked up an extensive collection of books on Warpstone for the library last turn. I'm betting Mathilde reads at least some of them at some point.
If I was a Skaven hiding myself from other skaven the first thing I would do would be hide my scent somehow.
Yes, and during first battle (for Karag Nar) we weren't even seen.
Yes, my concerns are maybe only 20-30% OpSec, and 70-80% Path of Civilisation type stuff.
So that people can communicate with then and they can learn more about more complex relationships than predator/prey. For example, if their silk turns out to be valuable, we could maybe trade it for goats that they can eat. This would open up possibilities for long-term cooperation, even after Karak Eight Peaks will hopefully be cleared of Skaven and Greenskins.
