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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Th3Saints said:
Next up are the important things like cleanup and declaring a grudge on Thorgrim.
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How about a 'no' on that last part, thought we were trying to fix that part of Dawi culture, and at least hold off until we know Thorgrim has a cause for his actions or if he was just being beligerent and spiteful which I find hard to believe....but then again if we were in a Thorgrim Quest, we'd likely also have voted against 'Send entire Aircorps to die in futile doomed battle to help that guy we hate'.
 
Andmeuths said:
So we get the opportunity to decimate a second Greenskin tribe in under 24 hours? That would be insanity, and would probably make the Eight Peaks one of the few places in Mallus where four Greenskin tribes were destroyed in the space of 48 hours.
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Forces of Destruction Grand Strategy Roleplaying Thread Players: This is BULLSHIT.
Game Master: Look, you let me add one Protagonist! Character to the Forces of Order-
FOD Players: REEE-
 
Durin said:
masses of snotlings are pretty much a non issue, remember clearing out the snotling town in the Underway. Barring the Squigs it was not a fight, it was pest control
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They're definitely not the worst thing to be dealing with, but in such huge numbers it's at the very least gonna take quite a while to clean up, potentially long enough for them to do weird orc things in their tunnels.
 
B_omega said:
As the western gates are not an issue, i assume the marauding Goblins now will enter K8P as well if they chase their sworn enemies?
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Nah, the goblins were raiders/skirmishers who were using a rare opportunity to take potshots at orcs while they were marching towards Eight Peaks.

That they were wildly successful in doing so doesn't change the fact that they are extremely unlikely to assault a concentrated Orc Waagh (if they are unaware what Eye of Gazul just did) or to risk certain death via hellfire (if they are aware).
 
Andmeuths said:
So we get the opportunity to decimate a second Greenskin tribe in under 24 hours? That would be insanity, and would probably make the Eight Peaks one of the few places in Mallus where four Greenskin tribes were destroyed in the space of 48 hours.
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Unfortunately, even if we wiped out the Waagh entirely, Karak Drazh is not empty of greenskins.

But it is terribly reduced, so maybe we should prevail on Thorgrim to try and redeem himself by making it dwarf again.
 
So i'd like to play devil's advocate and argue that if we truly got the entirety/majority of the Waaaagh's shamans it might be best if Mathilde press on and start dishing out the magical hurt along with the other wizards in support of the dwarfs. With no one on the horde side able to effectively counter-cast, the wizards are in the relatively rare position of being able to go absolutely postal on their opponents and act as significant force-multipliers on their chosen battlefronts.

Of course this is assuming Mathilde isn't too drained.
 
Neshuakadal said:
Is this... The throne of Karag Drazh? I don't know why the orcs would otherwise haul a stone throne around.
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Man, if it is, that would just be an amazing thing to haul over to Thorgrim. I don't even want to spite Thorgrim but damn that would be excellent.

Gul Damar said:
That's clearly not how Quests work, obviously at this poin the Orc PC would have killed Mathilde with a Brain Bursta casted from his left hand and propa krumped Belegar with the Daemonic rune gromil choppa in his right.
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My kingdom to be able to rate this both Funny and Insightful.

BoneyM said:
More Orcs than Snotlings.
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Oh fuck the hell yes.
 
Well, that was a chapter.
BoneyM said:
baerings
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bearings
BoneyM said:
(one, brooding and angry and indecisive, has a fraction of His attention here, but in the same way that a fraction of your attention might linger on the throb of an old scar)
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Some thoughts about the options:
  • I don't think this is Grungni. It would make sense from the scar perspective (remember, the Temple of Grungni in Karag Lhune had been defiled), but Grungni isn't really brooding/angry/indecisive.
  • It might be Grimnir. He's the god of resolving grudges, among other things, so the grudge as an old scar would make sense. He's also definitely the brooding, angry type. But indecisive? Grimnir is extremely decisive.
  • I think it's likeliest to be the Horned Rat. The personality fits, and the second line isn't saying that this place is an old scar, but rather that it causes the same sort of dull twinge of pain to the god as an old scar might.
BoneyM said:
Because for an instant that stretches into what feels like hours, you glimpse one greenskin after another for a fraction of a second each and mentally confirm that, yes, it is an enemy of the Dawi.
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Some maths: five hundred thousand seconds is around 139 hours. So if she only spent a twentieth of a second on each target, she spent seven subjective hours flagging the area of effect with FOE/FRIEND markers.

I am glad we gave her a good night's sleep going into this.
 
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So correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Snotlings the most chaff of chaff with them having terrible stats in general and next to no leadership? I ask since I'd imagine that they are highly likely to panic the moment they realize what just happened.
 
Sinsystems said:
So correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Snotlings the most chaff of chaff with them having terrible stats in general and next to no leadership? I ask since I'd imagine that they are highly likely to panic the moment they realize what just happened.
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They literally aren't smart enough to do that. They are amongst the most animalistic of the Greenskins, simply because they have very little brains.
 
Sinsystems said:
So correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Snotlings the most chaff of chaff with them having terrible stats in general and next to no leadership? I ask since I'd imagine that they are highly likely to panic the moment they realize what just happened.
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Indeed. Provided they realise it, that is. They are so perpetually confused that their minds generate Ulgu non-stop.
 
Sinsystems said:
So correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Snotlings the most chaff of chaff with them having terrible stats in general and next to no leadership? I ask since I'd imagine that they are highly likely to panic the moment they realize what just happened.
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You know those Looney Tunes mounds which are created whenever they dig in those old cartoons? I'm imagining a snotling poking his head up out of one of those to get his bearings, looking behind him and noticing the distinct lack of coherent Waagh. The head would disappear only to a few seconds later be replaced by the head of an annoyed Ork, with annoyance quickly turning into confoundment. The head would disappear for a few seconds more before the mound makes a neat U-turn and begins to head away from The Citadel.
 
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kingreaper said:
I'm now thinking of Mathilde wielding a staff that contains a trapped snotling...
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ah yes, the mightiest of Ulgu channeling devices, snotlings tied to a stick

i just realised that next to no orks would know what killed everyone since they ones who survived are either not there, in the caldera's shadow where they will get shot or underground, almost no ork will have seen this happen
 
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I haven't reviewed every page since the update so apologies if this joke has been made but it has to be said ...

SCENE: K8P Council Chamber, after the battle
(It is the first time any of the council have seen MATHILDE since the firing, only messages exchanged since).
MATHILDE enters, trademark smug/mysterious grin firmly fixed in place if a little worn around the edges.
BELEGAR: (gruffly approving) "Good work, Loremaster -"
KRAGG: (interrupting, grimly approving) "It still only counts as one."
 
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