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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BungieONI said:
The Waaagh is fighting in Karag Ryhn, so we know that there is a battle going on. They might be busy, but it would be good to have fortifications in the entrance to the Trench, just in case routing greenskins come knocking.
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That's not the Waaagh, it's still far away. Unless you simply meant the Greenskins that were already there.
 
BungieONI said:
Unlikely, Mors and Eshin in Yar are down to the knife with each other and its quite possible they will mutually suicide.
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That battle is going to go to whoever rolls well next. Guess it may depend on if Eshin brought or can create breeders, to turn 150,000 dead Skaven into food into a new flood of young Skaven.
 
BoneyM said:
There's a distance where the velocity of a jezzail round will overcome even Dwarven steel, and you've done your best to estimate it. Through gaps in the lines humans march at double time, pavise shields before them, freshly reinforced with the strongest steel Karak Azul can provide. Perhaps having some premonition of the future, perhaps merely preferring a larger target, the jezzail rounds concentrate on them only to ricochet off. They reach their preferred range and with a percussive chorus, the shields slam down upon stone, and then a second chorus sounds as cunning Tilean devices drive steel rods into the stone below. One of them are unfortunate enough to catch a jezzail bullet in the fraction of their head that is visible over the top of the shield, but a second shot of warp lightning grounds harmlessly against a stone wall instead of interfering with them, and a moment later Braganza's Besiegers demonstrate just how they got their name. Any unit of crossbowmen can pull their weight when defending a fortified position, but it takes something special for one to make a name assaulting them, and with utter discipline the crossbowmen begin to fire, not as a volley but as a constant rhythmic pattern to prevent any wasted shots on already-doomed targets. Jezzail snipers scream and gurgle, Fangleaders foolish enough to wear the plumes of their rank topple over, and with a shattering of glass the Underway is plunged back into darkness. The Dwarves march on.
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These men are worth every ounce of gold Belegar is paying them.
 
Alectai said:
Okay, now that it looks like we've gotten the Skaven by the balls, it's time to turn our attention to what the fuck is going on throughout the rest of Eight Peaks.

I'd say Rangers to support the Caldera warren fight, and the rest to get eyes on Karag Rhyn and either Karag Yar or the Underway.
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I'd say under-Caldera for sure, but Yar can wait a turn. Under-Zilfin? We should find out what the hell is going on with the dragon who started this all.
 
If we time it right and strike right after Yar skaven infighting is finished, Skaven will take their "literally dying from hunger" debuffs in battle, too, and with their numbers so reduced... man.

Anyway, concerning this battle, let Mathilde do what she did at Und Uzgar. This is a battlefield where an intangible monster of hungry shadows is going to be a battlefield-shaping power on her lonesome.
 
I think we need rangers watching for how the Skaven pit fight is going. I'm all for throwing the normal mercs into the fray too. Let them die instead of Dwarfs. Not sure about sending in the Besigers though-tunnels aren't where they want to be.
 
Alectai said:
Okay, now that it looks like we've gotten the Skaven by the balls, it's time to turn our attention to what the fuck is going on throughout the rest of Eight Peaks.

I'd say Rangers to support the Caldera warren fight, and the rest to get eyes on Karag Rhyn and either Karag Yar or the Underway while our main force clears the Under-Caldera out.

How much fortification has been done at Under-Karagril so far by the way?
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I think we can let Yar sit for a turn, but I want eyes on Under-Zilfin. Suddenly Dragon is not something I look forward to.
 
The best thing is that the skavan v skaven action of the thunder dome has turned into a knife fight that is climbing up the mountain. This could cripple them both. We might just remove the skaven from K8P. This is so exciting. The dream is getting closer step by step.
 
Quest said:
So what you are actually saying is that we'll be invisible, intangible and have a gas of confusion that will cause them to fight among themselves. :thonk:
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I mean, when you think about it, actually being in the darkness means that they can't see the cloud either; we wouldn't just be an evil, invincible shadow monster, the only thing they'd detect us as is a dark wind that engenders madness. We wouldn't even need to stab Skaven, they'd do all the stabbing themselves.
 
BoneyM said:
Clan Mors' forces in Karag Yar remain blissfully unaware of your actions, and now will remain so until they return here in person and discover matters for themselves, but from the report of the Rangers that won't be any time soon. It seems that Eshin recovered enough to set things near-equal, but then a set of near-simultaneous blunders put Mors and Eshin on the back foot at the same time and the two sides simultaneously routed, and then both realized that the other had run and thought they were about to miss out on victory and turned around once more. Now they're locked in a completely disorderly mess of a battle through the entirety of Under-Karag Yar and some of the mountain above too, and the only way to disengage anything but the smallest fraction of either force is the complete extermination of the enemy. The Rangers estimate that both are no better than half strength, and rapidly dropping as exhaustion and the Black Hunger take their toll.
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Ranald really doesn't like the ratties.
 
Ganurath said:
So... are there still communications left to cut, at this point?
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Nope. Specifically mentioned in the update.
spiritualatheist said:
I think we can let Yar sit for a turn, but I want eyes on Under-Zilfin. Suddenly Dragon is not something I look forward to.
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Agreed. Though the map provided last turn listed over-Zilfin as the place where the Dragon vs. Skryre fight was happening. @BoneyM, if we want to scout the progress of that conflict, I assume we select [ ] Karag Zilfin rather than [ ] Under-Karag Zilfin?
 
Guile said:
That battle is going to go to whoever rolls well next. Guess it may depend on if Eshin brought or can create breeders, to turn 150,000 dead Skaven into food into a new flood of young Skaven.
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And whoever wins will be badly mauled which we can deal with if we fortify up top here. And Breeder creation from what we know is expensive in warpstone, and costly in time. They can't just summon them out of the ether in a few days.

They may have breeders here, but Eshin is probably the one of the worst clans in terms of sustaining the thing that makes them special when it comes to the act of replacing their numbers. They can pump out new clan rats easy if they have breeders, but Gutter and Night Runners and Assassins take quite a bit of training and investment.
 
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picklepikkl said:
Nope. Specifically mentioned in the update.

Agreed. Though the map provided last turn listed over-Zilfin as the place where the Dragon vs. Skryre fight was happening. @BoneyM, if we want to scout the progress of that conflict, I assume we select [ ] Karag Zilfin rather than [ ] Under-Karag Zilfin?
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Since things have devolved into chaos, uh... everywhere, I've removed the Under-vs-Above distinction. Just pick Karags.
 
Blessed are the dice! I wanted to go back and find a way to keep the fight between Eshin and Mors going a while longer, but that no longer seems necessary.

I say we take "Sow Terror", they have defenses down there, choke points, gun emplacements, ambushes.

We are much more useful infiltrating than leading this time.
 
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