Spider/halfling deployable sniper teams? Snipers with mounts that can climb upside down and backgrounds in concealment and ambush? Oh, ranger commanders are going to LOVE this.
So, I remember the list of potential spider units a ways back, and we are taking about pegasi herds-
What are the set of K8P elite units we'd like to see?
- Pegasus cavalry
- halfling snipers on spiders
- other assorted spider forces, as previously detailed
- Knight company on shadowhorses. (My preference)
- Neo-steamtanks
- on-demand Dragon
I am imagining the halfling sniper teams and the spider riders to be separate units, personally. The spider riders I'm imagining as more like skirmish cavalry, harrassing the enemy's flanks with Zhufbar revolvers while the sniper teams are generally more defensive in nature and targeting VIPs. I suppose you could make cause for halfling sniper dragoons, but then why would you need spiders instead of, say, ponies?
The knight company on shadow horses seems like something that would bottleneck at their ability to get said shadow horses, and unless there's more to that idea I'm seeing it doesn't really add more than 'is a company of mounted knights'.
Steam tanks are cool, but looks like we'll need to wait a bit for our resident Grandmaster Engineer to get slightly less busy. I'd considered suggesting we hire more dwarf engineers, but that might threaten to dilute the pleasingly radical bent the local guild is likely to develop, so the next best thing I can imagine is human engineers which...I'm a lot more ambivalent about, honestly. I doubt that'd give him less work in the long run, you know?
I'm also somewhat leery about describing having dragons as 'on-demand', as even the
keebs elves have problems with that, and they have a lot more institutional experience with them than we do.
I'd be down with trying to develop a friendly pegasus herd to have added aerial cav potential though. Maybe discuss the possibility with the council, then see if we could entice some Amber Journeymen to come by and see if they could set up a workable agreement with one of the local herds? I know they're supposed to be skittish and untrusting, but that seems like the kind of thing we could address by taking a slow burn approach, maybe get one of the bolder colts to let us talk to them in, say, a decade or two before their dams hurriedly rush them off away from us.
Also, we'd probably need to talk to the We about it. I'd hate for our work to be undone because some Hunters saw prey and made a stab at them.
Fake edit: importing some would be expensive, but Belegar has cash to burn. If this was something he wanted to do I don't think money would be a problem, though I suspect it'd be more helpful for Ulrickadrin than Karak Eight Peaks.
