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I worry about Mhonar. Its entrance is outside the scope of the Eye and it's defended entirely by crossbows; no gunpowder weapons because Kazador isn't used to them. Granted that's a lot of sharp wood shafts to put into the air, but tens of thousands of panicked orcs rushing down the tunnel could do the thing where each of them picks up a comrade and uses them as a shield for the entire run and then you've got half of tens of thousands of orcs crashing into a melee with Kazador's Throng.
2 things to think about there is 260000 ish greenskins, most of which are snotlings and there is a lot of directions they can run to and will not do so uniformly if they flee, also Mhonar and the other Karaks are all sealed of so they'd need to dig through the seal while under constant fire, also Kazador is there with his Rune, skill and trait
 
I worry about Mhonar. Its entrance is outside the scope of the Eye and it's defended entirely by crossbows; no gunpowder weapons because Kazador isn't used to them. Granted that's a lot of sharp wood shafts to put into the air, but tens of thousands of panicked orcs rushing down the tunnel could do the thing where each of them picks up a comrade and uses them as a shield for the entire run and then you've got half of tens of thousands of orcs crashing into a melee with Kazador's Throng.
Before they get to the point of charging into crossbow bolt fire, first they have to break through the blocked-off entrance while under artillery fire. I feel pretty good about the odds.
And that means they're likely to push on Karagril and Karag Mhonar, which they should be able to reach the blocked entrances of without becoming vulnerable to the Eye, and they'd have enough reason to start excavating them
Like, if all tens of thousands were able to apply their force at the same time to the Throng, that would be a problem, but it's a choke point made chokier by the fact that the excavation isn't going to be uniform.
 
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.
Honestly, I'm more expecting traumatized war veteran snotlings, if they're capable of it. Like, greenskins don't do low morale as a cultural thing, but it's physiologically possible, and if anything could do it it would be this.
But can I weed my garden with it?

Remember when we wanted to use the mountain's Burning Shadow as an agriculture project, only to be told 'no' by the local Jade Wizard? Can you image Gazul's reaction to being told to weed the gardens with his cold fire?
Worse; he'd make us do it. We'd have to observe every leaf, root, branch and vine in order to tell whether or not they were blighted, or a weed. If there were a potato for every citizen of eight peaks, and each of those had ten leaves, that'd be around five hundred thousand targets, and there's probably more than that.

Mathilde would be sick of it half way through, and then have to sit through the other half.

Killing off the orcish spores they throw everywhere is probably the closest it's going to get to being used for weeding, not that that's not a respectable application.
 
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In very best scenario, we have almost completely won, and we hopefully get to see Belegar, Kragg and Kazador fly to Karaz-a-Karak and constructively roast Throgrim.
The best way would be for Belegar and Kazador, flanked by Kragg, Thorek and possibly Grombrindal to formally, in front of the bigwigs of Karaz a Karak, to state that as Kings of individual holds, focused on the successful reconquest of just one, they can not possibly understand the bigger picture of threats to the Karaz Ankor as a whole, but given that threats against the the Karak Eight peaks have been temporarily ended, they can offer their assistance to deal with whatever problem(s) that kept the High King from sending assistance to Karak Eight Peaks.
 
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So, anyone remember what Boney has said before about whether sidestories are actually canon or just half/maybe canon?
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Not sure if this is serious or in jest, but just in case, sidestory vs apocrypha is not at all a value judgement, it's just a matter of 'do I have future plans for this character and, if yes, could canonizing this get in the way'. So 'outside view' omakes from invented characters reacting to the events of the story very easily become Sidestory, as do peripheral worldbuilding like fictional books and whatnot, but an ambitious multi-chapter PoV from a canonical character is almost certain to end up in apocrypha just so they're free to go as nuts as they want with the character without worrying about stepping on canonical toes.
Yeah, some things I particularly like find their way into updates, but nothing's canonized that isn't in the actual main threadmarks. Sidestory is 'things that could have happened off-screen' and apocrypha is everything AU and everything that gets into the heads of named characters.
 
But can I weed my garden with it?

Remember when we wanted to use the mountain's Burning Shadow as an agriculture project, only to be told 'no' by the local Jade Wizard? Can you image Gazul's reaction to being told to weed the gardens with his cold fire?
See, thing is, any big boi with an excess of divine power can SMITE any heathen with his big dick of godly power. But extreme precision work, like carefully shaving off just the encroaching weeds without setting the rest of the wheat field on fire? That's a challenge worthy of song that will echo throughout the ages.
 
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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'.
Its not us that are going to declare it but thorgrim just left a reclaimed karak to be lost and more important for him grudges that had been stricken added back to the Book.
He needs a really something major to not send at least a token force because in the end Vengance and stricking grudges from the Book is All.
 
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Of course no one would want to have the Crown of Sorcery near us.

No one would make plans for how to use that delicious, delicious necromantic power nor how to try and grab hold of Nagash's soul for their own nefarious goals. I would never do that.

My goals aren't nefarious, you see.
Ah Ha! Omegahugger is secretly Odysseus! I know your secret!
The horrifying part is that Mathilde got to look in every individual orc's face and decide whether they're to be burned or not. It wasn't push the button they die WMD: those were 500k distinct decisions to kill. A month off might not be enough, honestly.
Hopefully, she'll get to nap on the gyrocopter trip to Altdorf. Possibly bring a lot of blankets to wrap up in, for proper blanket-burrito effect.
Yeah, action crunch or not, I'm super leery of overwork for the next turn.
Overwork action: Nap. :V
But, uh, yeah. This plan worked out pretty well. I don't think we're going to get to phase three. I'm not sure we're going to reach phase two.
Well, part of phase 2 is the artillery defending the entrances... That's going to get a lot of play. And there's a decent chance, if it turns into a rout, that the in-Karag defenders will sally. Otherwise Kazador will probably pout about missing out on a fight.
Their great warboss is what, 6 inches tall?
Snotling warboss? Has to be at least 8 inches! :V

Also, given that goblins despise snotlings, I imagine they probably dealt disproportionate casualties to them in the raiding. Their wolves probably just considered them meals on the go.
 
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Its not us that are going to declare it but thorgrim just left a reclaimed karak to be lost and more important for him grudges that had been stricken added back to the Book.
He needs a really something major to not send at least a token force because in the end Vengance and stricking grudges from the Book is All.
No-one's going to declare a grudge over it. It was in what we consider to be exceptionally bad taste, but it was a perfectly viable interpretation of the situation, and Thorgrim tried to do what he thought was the right thing to save the most dwarven lives that could be saved; a one point two million greenskin waaagh isn't the sort of thing you send reinforcements to unless you also want them to perish.
 
So, what's the chance we get the trait: Orc-Bully.

Orc-Bully: You beat up their bosses, steal their gods lunch money, and then call them mean things. Plus the whole mass-murder thing, but to Greenskins that's just in good fun. Really it's the words that hurt.
 
So, what's the chance we get the trait: Orc-Bully.

Orc-Bully: You beat up their bosses, steal their gods lunch money, and then call them mean things. Plus the whole mass-murder thing, but to Greenskins that's just in good fun. Really it's the words that hurt.
Birdmuncha definitely skipped the leg day.
 
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