Definitely a better contribution than Thorgrim
Not... really? I mean, yeah, if you want to do something undetected or looking like someone else then they're better, but that's not the point of Cloak Activity. The point of Cloak Activity is to mislead and misdirect somebody as to what you're actually trying to accomplish. Like talking to somebody while actually rifling through a book or something. The nuances are different, once you look past the surface. But, eh, I can't force you to change your mind.
Did they at any point realize that they were stuck between a Dwarven defensive line and the Orcs? I'd imagine at some point they tried falling back.
Cloak Activity is of a lower complexity and therefor easier to cast.
Fairly quickly, they sent scouts when supplies and relief stopped arriving. They were holding out for the main Mors force to break back through.
Well first off, this:
and second off, from reading the descriptions, Cloak activity doesn't seem to have the same restriction of implausibility raising suspicion like Illusion does. Cloak Activity may not be as useful as Illusion, especially in conjunstion with the Coin, but it is far and away from your comment about 99% of the time. I'd say twenty at least, probably closer to thirty.
Poor ratties
We kind of have a Coin setting for that. Or a least one that points the way towards a research project in that regard.
Go tell the Skaven, passerby that here Clan Mors last holdouts lie.Poor ratties
...Wow, I almost feel sorry for them. Like, that's gotta suck, desperately wishing for somebody to come save you and never realizing that the reinforcements were already long dead themselves. It would be depressing, if they weren't Skaven whose entire lives push that sort of thing far lower on the totem pole of tragedies.
That is impressive. Like, if these were dwarfs, it would go down as one of the great defiant last stands, remembered for all times in song and tale. A week of holding the line for their brethren, surrounded on all sides by enemies, starving and without supplies. It makes me both sad and relieved we never knew them. And it's really tragic, this is the sort of thing the dwarfs could really admire, if only it wasn't for that literally godawful culture.
"Hey, remember how we got Mors to stand there and hold off the orcs while we killed and let die the entire rest of their force?"
AP hell says no.
And if I ask you if Mathilde would spend her frustratingly limited time dotting those last i's and crossing those last t's when she could instead be doing original research? Would she choose to follow the well worn path or push the boundaries of known (to humans) magic? Would she learn some parlour tricks when there are epic artifices to organise and engineer?
I kinda want an omake of a rat scholar citing this as one of the pivotal moments leading up to the formation of the New Skaven. They did not fight for the cruel and malicious god that abandoned them, but for their fellow Skaven, and in doing so they found a strength and courage that moved even the dwarfs. While the brothers they fought for may have already been dead, their unknown sons and daughters thank them and remember.
