- Pronouns
- She/Her
Are you refering to Karl Franz or Mandred here? because that will determine how virulantly I will deny this.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
With respect we've eschewed any serious targets because we knew they were beyond us unless circumstances wildly favoured us. The +40 trait would change that dramatically and yes failing assassination is absolutely a risk, we're planning to visit the shadow elves of Ulthuan to join them on ventures against the dark elves. Having +40 to assassinate targets of opportunity would be massive and failing could well lead to death, in fact failing assassination work always has that risk especially when going against factions that are magic rich, which the Delves will be.
HanEmpire
Delicious
What the hell was the tradeoff for ignoring the Dragon then? I feel we missed a huge opportunity to get at Eshin secret techniques.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
To be fair there is no way that Mandred won't follow the cult of Sigmar. Dieter proved you don't have to be a devout Sigmarite to be emperor but an emperor needs the support of the cult of sigmar and the people. The best way to do that is to be, publicly, a sigmarite. His mother is politically savvy enough to teach him this.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
We'll clear away the trait when Sigmar does something in the story to be forgiven. He's just not worth any of the traits we'd be missing out on, especially as the narrative equivalent of 'Eh, I don't really care anymore'.
And there's nothing stopping him from being a worshipper of Sigmar and Ranald, just like most of the rest of the humans in the Empire.
- Location
- Actually pretty lost
I'm really not interested in Collegiate at all. We often struggle to find useful things to set our subordinates on, and often don''t bring them in on our most "important" actions because we don't want to share.
On the other hand, with Polyglot, we can potentially get some very impressively large library bonuses indeed! It's also they only way I (and several other voters) would ever support trying to learn spoken Queekish, as it makes that much easier for a fairly nebulous gain. I could personally take it or leave it, but if you want to learn spoken Queekish then you should be supporting Polyglot.
On the other hand, with Polyglot, we can potentially get some very impressively large library bonuses indeed! It's also they only way I (and several other voters) would ever support trying to learn spoken Queekish, as it makes that much easier for a fairly nebulous gain. I could personally take it or leave it, but if you want to learn spoken Queekish then you should be supporting Polyglot.
Last edited:
Ganurath
Literal Enthusiast
- Location
- A Valid Location
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Mandred, and jokingly.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
The dragon maybe deciding we were also foes and trying to eat us. Until we determined it was neutral, the dragon was a major strategic threat that we were keeping resources in reserve for and stuff.
- Location
- Earth
We wouldn't be sure the dragon would not target Dwarves.
Who knows how his barricade crossing would've gone with twitchy Dwarves and no language between them?
Quest
The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
The tradeoff was the dragon deciding not to ignore us.
- Location
- Mexico
Well I wanted the secrets, but knowing that the dragon was peaceful gave us some peace of mind, and spared us having to find Bok on our own.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
There isn't. But the comment I was replying to stated that sigmar "lost" the heir which isn't true.
We've got no idea what the dragon might be capable of if it stopped going after skaven and got seriously creative with magic.
- Location
- Mexico
And it would do that, why? Wasting power and probably months of research to break something that is not a threat to it?
It wanted to sleep, it would just drop him somewhere.
HanEmpire
Delicious
Damn that Dragon for being a force of nature. I really, really wanted those assassination Ulgu skills.
Can we use our Favor to start translating restricted Dwarf lore texts into Reikspiel with Dwarf approval?
Quest
The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
It might decide killing the dwarves might get rid of the Golem. At the end of the day, the dragon was a wild card and talking to him took him off the table as an enemy.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
He doesn't even need to publicly worship sigmar (beyond standard observances) at all. In the future in canon Boris Todbringer was a serious candidate for emperor even though he is a devout ulrican.
I would argue that only 6-8 of those have books worth adding to the bonus or don't risk melting our eyes (Black Speech)
- Location
- Aotearoa
That force of nature cleared one-and-two-thirds of Skaven Clans for us.
Even a devout Ulrician can acknowledge Sigmar as patron god of the Empire without believing that he's King of the Gods as is modern doctrine in the Cult of Sigmar.
- Location
- Actually pretty lost
To my recollection we have used the trait (other than the +2 martial) on two occasions.
Once when we took command of the tunnel fighting/scouting during the initial reconquest.
And during this campaign when we bothered to actually stay in command. Notably we spent less time actually 'in command' than running around doing stuff in person.
We have never used the spell creation aspect. As far as I know we haven't even come up with an idea that BoneyM didn't rule as either impossible, redundant or Battle Magic.
If we were planning to make Mathilde a general it would be worth considering. However if we are only going to be leading armies when the actual leaders are dead or absent then we have far better options.
Speaking of…
@BoneyM
Trait ideas.
Battle: Well Prepared
New Trait: Well Prepared – Bonus to combat/assassination/etc when you are able to prepare for it in advance.
Battles are won or lost before they begin. Whether that is building a battle-mountain or convincing your enemies they will be fighting Eshin then attacking with Dawi.
Karak: Commuter
New Trait: Commuter – Improved options to visit distant locations. Reduce travel time. Remove malus to operating away from support base. Buff to diplomacy/intrigue/networking (?) actions in distant locations. (Not sure of the mechanics for this.)
Karak Eight Peaks is your home. But that doesn't mean you do all your work there.
Personal: Face-to-face
New Trait: Face-to-face (?) - Buff to diplomacy when interacting with someone in person.
Distant authority and written messages have proven unreliable. People should look you in the eye when they deny you help.
Eshin and Mors mainly killed each other.
He'd throw the resources of the Karak behind the search and acquisition of them, but you have no way to know how successful that might be.
You have no way of knowing this, either.
If they gave that approval, which they likely won't. Mathilde's reputation does not extend to the entire Empire.
Currently undecided.