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Well we already have the bullshit magical items for it.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Chlof
Her Ladyship
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This just in: Ulgu is actually an overly-affectionate pet snake.
Before you go full Peter Pan, it is still connected to you.
This is a decision for where the bulk of the Expedition will be calling home for the foreseeable future. There's no guarantee you'll be able to take more than one.
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Nothing nebulous about the subterranean threat from Skaven. Dwarf holds can fall to the ratmen from below no matter how good the Dwarves are on defence. And the Terror Shadow can only be in so many places at once.
I know, I know. Is a joke. As if being without a shadow wouldn't be unnerving, too.
Very dramatic update, loved it.
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Grey Wizards are also the College where what you think you see or know is most likely to be wrong. How would they know this was actually Mathilde rather than someone wearing an illusion of her face, for example, or whether her entire public career is a lie, or whatever.
The more she achieves, the more her accomplishments in Drakenhof look like part of a pattern than a one off success.
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So question, would we be able to develop a supped up version of the Shadow killing our enemies thing? A dream of mine is to one day be able to go full Pride from Fullmetal Alchemist on some poor saps.
She didn't really solo the fortress though.
Mathilde won the battle (skirmish?) at the gates by breaking the morale of the Skaven and the dwarf/human forces moved in to clean the rest of the fortress. She couldn't clean the fortress by herself.
However since her opponents were Skaven, and the Skaven greatest nemesis are other Skaven, once the infighting started it devolved into an orgy of backstabbing and led to the reclmation being far easier.
Alectai
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She basically did the equivalent of stabbing a rock face with a pick in just the right place to cause a cascade collapse.
For all intents and purposes, she was responsible for this being a clean win.
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This was edited in, and basically rules out the Entrance.
Not only are the dwarves best on defense, making getting into a conflict where the enemy bleeds against dwarves walls (be it flesh, stone, or steel) a solid tactic, but we are most definitely going to be dealing with a lot of attacks by an enemy that knows it has the numbers advantage.
@BoneyM wheb Belegar says "tenuous" in option number 3, does he mean it's not especially defensible?
I mean, at face value it just says that their first foray isn't gonna take a lot of territory back, which couldn't mean all that much save to pride and potentially using success to garner support...
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I was thinking on a mass scale of "All the Shadows start trying to kill you" sort of thing.
If we want to deal with the subterranean threat, it might be wise to start developing fog of war based spells. There are also a lot of shadows in tunnels under ground, and even though skaven have better night vision than humans, they still need some light to see with.
IIRC, physical matter (that's not lead or obsidian) doesn't block Witchsight, so Mathilde may be able to look down through the ground, perhaps just at the point of dawn, when the earth has released all the Hysh it absorbed the day before so that isn't present to get in the way, and see where the concentrations of Ulgu that correspond to there being shadows, so so lots of the skaven's dim lanterns or the night goblins phosphorescent fungi.
She'd almost certainly need a spell for this, but both Warrior of Fog and Windreader should hopefully help with this kind of thing.
She knows that. Some people in the army know that. By the time the information reaches Altdorf, however.
IIRC, physical matter (that's not lead or obsidian) doesn't block Witchsight, so Mathilde may be able to look down through the ground, perhaps just at the point of dawn, when the earth has released all the Hysh it absorbed the day before so that isn't present to get in the way, and see where the concentrations of Ulgu that correspond to there being shadows, so so lots of the skaven's dim lanterns or the night goblins phosphorescent fungi.
She'd almost certainly need a spell for this, but both Warrior of Fog and Windreader should hopefully help with this kind of thing.
She knows that. Some people in the army know that. By the time the information reaches Altdorf, however.
It'd be very defensible, the downside is that the Expedition would 'only' have a foot in the door instead of having retaken a part of the Karak proper.
You could try to make something like that, though it would be at the level of Battle Magic.
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Alright then I will put that on the research list once we get to that point.
Khepri14
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So we can just become a Nara and pull a Kage Nui(Art of the Shadow Stitching) or Kagemane(Shadow Possession) then.
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- usa
Our two arcane marks are startlingly similar, wonder if they will bleed into each other?
Alectai
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Good fucking luck.
The standard Spells are the results of literally all of history's research in Battle Magic.
Gosh I hope so.
It'll be so much better if the Arcane Marks are tailored to Mathilde rather than just turning you into a caricature.
Asheram
Not quite altogether
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[ ] Kvinn-Wyr and the Sentinels.
I'm leaning towards this one. As noted, it's just a foot in the door, but considering that we're fighting Skaven, who surely are using the tunnels as a staging ground, then it's better we take them while our troops are fresh instead of leaving them for later.
I'm leaning towards this one. As noted, it's just a foot in the door, but considering that we're fighting Skaven, who surely are using the tunnels as a staging ground, then it's better we take them while our troops are fresh instead of leaving them for later.
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Alright, I'd say the only one I'm solidly and totally against is the Main Entrance, option 4. We need a strongly defensible base of operations, and if things have gone bad and the treasury is empty or depleted we're extra double fucked.
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It should be noted we're...ok, we MAY as a commander who had accomplished some good work be allowed a pick or two, but we don't even have Greataxe training yet. So, don't base things on that.
It's an armoury, not a treasure vault. And a dwarven one at that, so even armor isn't likely.
Most likely it will be used to outfit the vagabonds.
I meant nebulous as in "May be more vulnerable than usual"
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