Can someone post the Casting Values of the Ulgu Battle Magic? BoneyM has mentioned that we might be able to swing one or two Battle Magics before becoming Wizard Lord, with Favor costs equal to their Casting Values. Also,
@BoneyM what's the favor cost of learning Smoke and Mirrors, since it doesn't have a Casting Value in the tabletop?
That's for enchantments. Whether you're trusted enough to be taught Battle Magic is not a matter of favour expenditure.
Then BoneyM probably shouldn't have the Casting Values as the costs. It's a bit farcical to have the costs be unpostable...
Frankly, we could probably do with getting a big "this is what makes certain buff spells mess you up, the ones in list A are fine, those in list B will kill you" post in informational, to cut down on people asking whether this or that spell will kill us if we try to slot it in our repertoire.
I'd ask that people spend a moment to think before they suggest that the QM spends several tedious hours compiling a spreadsheet as a universal panacea to player inconvenience.
If anyone is willing to go through the Lores and compile a list of converted favour costs and summaries of their general effects, that would be safe from the gaze of GW.
Hmmm. Something I've been wondering
@BoneyM related to our ever expanding armory of magical MacGuffins, if we got an item of The Speed of Light would we have to take off the Belt or Armored Robes depending on the form it took in order to use the battle magic item and would there be any similar slot issues if we wanted to use a different item with Bound Ulgu Battle Magic spells like Smoke And Mirrors or Pit of Shades instead?
How is "you can't cast Ulgu while this (absurdly powerful) Hysh spell is active" a "drawback" as opposed to a "limitation"?
We can just... not activate it, or turn it off, when we want to cast.
In any case this is all based on my wild speculation and can easily be overturned by word of
@BoneyM .
This discussion is getting dumb, let's ask the QM.
@BoneyM I know that you have already said that the problem with an Item with Speed of Light is that it can only be active for a short time and that the recharge time is long, but the thread is speculateting too much. So better to have your answer on this.
If we use magical item with speed of light, would it prevent us from casting Grey Magix, or from having have also active Aetheric Armor and/or Dread Aspects?
Speed of Light would clash with any other
internal buffs when used, to the detriment of all spells involved, and make it harder to cast spells while it's active because the parts of you that normally channel
Ulgu are filled with a different Wind. I can't see many scenarios where you punch the 'maximum murderblender' button and then decide to take a time out to cast some spells instead though, and the spell version only lasts a single round - this isn't an 'entire battle' deal.
The same applies to any other buff that improves the internal workings of your body. Mathilde's standard battle spells are Aethyric Armour and Scary Murdershadows, both of which are external.
@BoneyM what would be the cost of filling up an armoury with a variety of basic Dwarven Weaponry such as to resemble the above? Dwarven Journeyman tier basically.
Factoring rep and bulk discount, five gold coins per weapon, multiplied by however many weapons makes an armoury.
Air wolf was a helicopter, not actually a flying wolf.
Edit: Actually
@BoneyM can we name the Gyrobomber we use, or did the dwarves beat us to that?
It's a gyrocarriage, but once the Eight Peaks Air Corps starts expanding you might be able to claim one for your exclusive use.
BoneyM says that greenskins by default count, same as beastmen.
Orcs specifically, not all greenskins.
@BoneyM
Given the bonus for fighting in narrow spaces from our style is described as;
Could we get that bonus while fighting in center of the front ranks of a relatively tight formation? I understand if you don't want us to try and rule lawyer this, but it seems like a sort of situation which might play to her style's strengths surprisingly well.
I considered explicitly adding that, and it would have definitely been in with a solely Greatsword style, but for what Mathilde has I decided against it. It's simpler to fight with walls on both sides than with moving, bleeding, fighting allies.
Hey,
@BoneyM, is our connection to Wolf purely magical, or is it partly spiritual? I mean, in the sense that it either does or doesn't require a direct connection to the Warp/Aethyr.
The reason I'm wondering is because it sounds fairly straightforward for a normal wizard, and they'd never have to worry about it, but seeing as how you've confirmed that Mathilde was secretly a vampire all along I'd like to know if there were any difficulties due to her lack of connection to the warp.
The line between the two isn't so clear-cut. Magic and souls are both forms of warp energy.
@BoneyM how big of a scandal would it be if the Empress was found to be a Ranaldian priestess? Would it cause a religious shitstorm if it's found out she's got Shallya's blessings too?
EDIT: How about her real age? Would it cause issues despite the fact that she's clearly fertile?
If it was somehow proved, both would cause unrest and discontent, especially among the Sigmarites. Mere unsubstantiated hearsay wouldn't, it's the constant price of fame and power.
@BoneyM should we take this as really meaning "in perpetuity"? because there are a
lot of vampires...
It could definitely be interpreted that way. Perhaps it will remain in force forever, perhaps it would be until every known Vampire is stamped out and the Witch Hunters give the all-clear, and a second decree would be made stating the fulfilment of the first.
It's specifically exempted in the 13th Amendment. Slavery's abolished in the United States except when it comes to prisoners, which is incredibly skeevy IMO. That's the last line that an exemption should be found in.
This is not the place for this discussion.
On that note,
@BoneyM how does EIC deal with debtors? Does it do debt prisons or will our "Common Good" ethos thing make the directors go for structured repayment plans?
EDIT: Can we get the EIC to set up its own banks? Might do the Empire tons of good to do micro-loans.
This is several layers below the level of granularity the thread decided to keep on-screen, so I'm not going to go anywhere near the minefield of duelling economic policies.
