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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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racnor said:
[X] Leave a garrison; it is now de facto Stirland, not just de jure.
-[X] Small Garrison with artillery- 4k men, 10 organ guns.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.

Shouldn't we have all the cannon with us for bombarding the castle? instead, we should have the anti-unit artillery, the organ gun, in the garrison.
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Sure, if it was a meaningful amount of cannon. It's kind of not.

The difference between 50 empire and 40 dawi cannon + 20 grudge throwers + 1 Dragon VS 70 empire +40 dawi + 20 grude +1 Dragon, well, it's not terribly big. And the cannon are for defense of the town from outside, not within. Plus, since we will be down on manpower we need the organ guns. Oh, also, we can't order the dwarves to stay out of it and garrison our town because that's not how alliances work and those aren't our organ guns.
 
At this point, I've come to the conclusion that Mathilde is the only competent wizard around. I mean, sure, actual competence has nothing to do with it, but the rolls have made wizards monumentally useless.

How much failure can Mathilde tolerate from her own colleagues before coming to the conclusion that the College of Magic and the wizards it churns out are ineffectual? A bit more of this and she's likely to have her own crisis of faith modifier, just about other wizards instead of a god.
 
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[X] Leave a garrison; it is now
de facto Stirland, not just de jure .
-[X] Medium Garrison - 6k men, 20 cannon.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.

let it all burn
 
One thing I am interested in is our Reputation and Legend after this, assuming we succeed with demolishing that bloody castle. Because lets be honest we are really scary and if we come out of this we will be the only wizard who came back from this campaign.
 
Exmorri said:
@BoneyM , roughly how far is it to Castle Drakenhof? Would we be besieging it later this same day, or the next day, or what? The maps posted in thread have five-mile-wide icons so there's quite the margin of error in trying to judge that on sight.
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Leave at first light and arrive in time for a late lunch.

Chronic said:
I am pretty sure that Deathfang is a Green Dragon. They don't do fire, only super-acid.
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He's a dragon that is green, but he's not a Green Dragon. He's one of the Ulthuani varieties, probably a Star Dragon.
 
-[X] Medium Garrison - 6k men, 20 cannon.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.

By his memory, Drakenhof will fall. And the last thing we want is for a sneak attack into our rear. The town will be of use in the future, so enough men and cannons that any attempt to backcap will at least be noticeable. As for the necromancer, we need to raise morale and the necromancer will serve a purpose in helping us do so.
 
[X] Leave a garrison; it is now de facto Stirland, not just de jure.
-[X] Medium Garrison - 6k men, 20 cannon.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.

Karnax626 said:
Hopefully Kasmir survives the campaign, too many have died already and he's definitely grown on me as a character since his first introduction (plus I don't necessarily blame him for Sigmar's apparent in attentiveness).
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So long as he doesn't become a cultist or a flagellant, he'll probably be the most moderate but knowledgeable sigmarite priest around
 
[X] Leave a garrison; it is now de factoStirland, not just de jure.
-[X] Small Garrison with artillery- 4k men, 10 organ guns.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.

Sunk cost is much too high to turn away now, and Mathilde getting counselling from stone is worrying.
 
After this campaign and as soon as we have a chance we need to take a break just to deal with all the stress and grieve.
 
[X] Leave a garrison; it is now de facto Stirland, not just de jure.
-[X] Medium Garrison - 6k men, 20 cannon.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.
 
[X] Leave a garrison; it is now de factoStirland, not just de jure.
-[X] Small Garrison with artillery- 4k men, 10 organ guns.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.
 
Exmorri said:
[:V] Check Liber Mortis for a section on How To Dispel Good.
The Patriarch is down and the Amethyst Wizards MIA, no one to look over our shoulder, but also a much greater need for us to become sudden countermagic expert! :wink:
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You joke, but I am genuinely tempted. By charging for Castle Drakenhof we are setting ourselves up for Mathilde to be the only dispel support between the army and the greatest hotspot of vampires and necromancers in Sylvania. If there are a half-dozen decently competent casters on their side we could just be straight-up fucked and then they have an army of undead dwarves and soldiers that they can use to march on Stirland.

Well, Kasmir might be able to help dispel things. Maybe. Priests can learn Dispel. If he can that would be much better as it would literally double our spell defense prowess. Unless he can then I am desperately wondering how we can prevent this from turning into a horrific slaughter and the Liber Mortis is right there.
 
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.

DarkLight140 said:
You joke, but I am genuinely tempted. By charging for Castle Drakenhof we are setting ourselves up for Mathilde to be the only dispel support between the army and the greatest hotspot of vampires and necromancers in Sylvania. If there are a half-dozen decently competent casters on their side we could just be straight-up fucked and then they have an army of undead dwarves and soldiers that they can use to march on Stirland.

Well, Kasmir might be able to help dispel things. Maybe. Priests can learn Dispel. If he can that would be much better as it would literally double our spell defense prowess. Unless he can then I am desperately wondering how we can prevent this from turning into a horrific slaughter and the Liber Mortis is right there.
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I'd be down for it. At the very least dispelling isn't the kind of magic that should stand out as being form this particular book to anyone, so if it's covered in the book it should be relatively safe to adapt for our own purposes.
 
primemountain said:
Sure, if it was a meaningful amount of cannon. It's kind of not.

The difference between 50 empire and 40 dawi cannon + 20 grudge throwers + 1 Dragon VS 70 empire +40 dawi + 20 grude +1 Dragon, well, it's not terribly big. And the cannon are for defense of the town from outside, not within. Plus, since we will be down on manpower we need the organ guns. Oh, also, we can't order the dwarves to stay out of it and garrison our town because that's not how alliances work and those aren't our organ guns.
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Makes sense, vote switched.
 
[X] Leave a garrison; it is now de facto Stirland, not just de jure.
-[X] Medium Garrison - 6k men, 20 cannon.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.
 
DarkLight140 said:
You joke, but I am genuinely tempted. By charging for Castle Drakenhof we are setting ourselves up for Mathilde to be the only dispel support between the army and the greatest hotspot of vampires and necromancers in Sylvania. If there are a half-dozen decently competent casters on their side we could just be straight-up fucked and then they have an army of undead dwarves and soldiers that they can use to march on Stirland.

Well, Kasmir might be able to help dispel things. Maybe. Priests can learn Dispel. If he can that would be much better as it would literally double our spell defense prowess. Unless he can then I am desperately wondering how we can prevent this from turning into a horrific slaughter and the Liber Mortis is right there.
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We would have a few hours, thanks to our Shadowsteed.
If we find something in that short time and roll high enough to understand it in that short time we could try.

But no half-assed casting if we didn't do well in the short time.
 
Shouldn't the necromancer be interrogated, especially about what is underneath the tunnels that killed the patriarch?

Would shadow mage girl have to inform the other wizarding orders how a team of wizards dissapeared? Or the fact that all the wizards are working together and left Mathilda out of the loop? Would she have to finish whatever task they were expected to perform later?
 
[X] Leave a garrison; it is now de facto Stirland, not just de jure.
-[X] Medium Garrison - 6k men, 20 cannon.
[X] Execute him publicly, in the traditional way. Burn him at the stake. (+morale)
[X] Nothing has changed. We have cannon, we have dragon. Castle Drakenhof falls.
 
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