I mean, they fill different roles, from my understanding. Fieldwardens are ranged and stealth specialist whereas kittybirds are light cav. And sure, while we have the former in the shape of Rangers and Mathilde, we'll also already have the latter in the shape of the Wolves.
Dwarfs have managed to get along fine without wizards for a long time.
"Light cavalry" in the sense they are incredibly mobile, both strategically and especially tactically, but they are elite Knights wearing fullplate riding demygriphs. One the the deadliest fighting forces in the world.
I mean, Gretel is all about that mercenary life and has recently developed a pretty badass spell for fighting. I'm not that impressed by the Besiegers as compared to literally any of the other choices on offer (even Adela's human artillery crews would be better, since indirect fire via mortars is a capability we lack), which is why I haven't been interested in trying to recruit her yet, but I'm just saying, she's the most murder-focused Duckling we've got.
While I am unsure if they have specific anti-Chaos juju of some kind, it is absolutely true that their raison d'etre is specifically "fuck Chaos and all its works," and so we would be offering them a chance to fulfill their mission statement in a very direct way, which should translate into "high levels of enthusiasm for this project" at the least.
If they can sleep in the tanks then they are a very effective scouting force. We will know everything happening around us in a wide area.
I would actually really like Gretel to come along, I am very interested in seeing her growth as a magical murder machine. She strikes me as very much so what we could have been if we'd ended up as an Amethyst.
If you want to kill stuff Amethyst is generally the best. It would be somewhat odd if it wasn't.
@Jyn Ryvia, are you around? It was your idea, IIRC.
They're Amber's, even if they don't count as figurative Ducklings I'm sure they can turn into literal ones.
Ehhhh. They showed up back before the Knights left, I think so...maybe?
I'm inclined to say yes, if they can be tracked down. They haven't been around for the Club, but they still did a lot of work getting our foothold in Eight Peaks, and helped us write papers and talk to spiders even after the initial conquest.
What do you mean? They stayed a turn after the reclamation to poke at spooders with us, then went back with the Knights. They never came to Duckling Club meetings once we founded that, though they did look us up a few years ago and drop in to say hi, which was nice of them; I definitely count them as friends, even if they aren't necessarily part of the K8P wizard community that we've spend years developing.
My mistake than. I only remembered for certain them being around for the We.
My instinct says that she would spend ingots in preference to coins, because coins are more dramatic to run through your fingers/fill a bag with/dive into a vault of like Scrooge McDuck. But I encourage other people to provide their own takes.
