Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Nope. @Fean'Na still has that vote which misses the 'l' off Asarnil. Putting the Everyone vote in the lead.
In_lurk_shadow
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- here and there
[x] Lead the Wizards and Asarnil
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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- Vermont
How is that an eagle?
Okay, maybe they say that their symbol is an eagle somewhere, but that does not look like an eagle.
Fairly sure if Mathy got a 'Blessing of Sigmar' it would rapidly be replaced by a 'Sigmar-shaped blessing of Ranald'. Possibly in the shape of a new item.
Stealing divine power is basically his entire shtick. He isn't going to complain at being handed more.
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- Greece
Actually, it is a photorealistic depiction of a Warhammer eagle. They just look like that.
[x] Lead the Wizards and Asarnil
[X] Lead only the Wizards
[X] Lead only the Wizards
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- Chicago
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- She/They
Have any of the dwarves led cavalry? Ever? Do they have any idea what to do with them?
Just asking because putting cavalry directly under the command of a dwarf who may not listen to them at all and had no idea how to use then seems like it would be suboptimal.
Just asking because putting cavalry directly under the command of a dwarf who may not listen to them at all and had no idea how to use then seems like it would be suboptimal.
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- Germany
They know how other races use cavalry.
Also the Knight who will represent them in the battle-planning will recommend where his troops could be best used.
We are not giving the Orders no representation, we are just not the one representing them.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Yes and no. It's big and flat, which is in theory good cavalry terrain, but the landscape is riddled with Chaos bullshit and the farther we spread out over the landscape the more risk of bad mojo magic corrupting or hurting us somehow.
Pretty sure we're not supposed to travel through the really bad, terrain warping parts are we?
Theoretical knowledge is a bit different from being a top tier human commander. Borek is likely worse at commanding troops or combat in general compared to Mathilde even before factoring in him not being familiar with mixed troop armies.
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- Finland
And whoever the knights put forward as their rep will almost certainly be better at leading cavalry than Mathilde.
Tasoli
Life is for Living
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- Behind the Keyboard.
We are not choosing cavalary leader. We are choosing general staff. Mathilde is better choice I feel because of this.
Probably not?
Mathilde is a very solid commander. Mechanically she's just under the heroic tier and that's before Warrior of Fog gets thrown into the mix.
Commanding might not be Mathilde's top skill - it isn't even in her top 3 - but she's got a good chance of being better at it or at the very least about as good as any given knight that happens to be in command of a detachment (with possible trade offs due to traits - Warrior of Fog is good for scouting; a knight commander could be better at straight on engagements).
- Location
- Finland
And who ever is leading the knights is still probably better commander overall.
Mathilde may be good, but this is what the knights do, it is their focus for more than it is Mathilde's.
I don't think it really matters either way, it's more about personal control and what interests the voters, instead of what is the objectively superrior choice.
Yeah, it's not about the frontline commander, it's who sits in on the general staff meetings. Will it be one person for the imperial forces as a whole, or the mageforce and dragonforce having one and the horseforce having another. The dragonforce having their own seems unlikely at this point.
And yes, I know there aren't any horses. But horseforce rolls off the tongue so well. How is it that anyone uses cavalry instead of horseforce, and how have I discovered this only now? I will be using horseforce any chance I get, because I enjoy saying horseforce.
Horseforce.
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- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Lead the Wizards and Asarnil
I'm switching to this from leading everyone. While it's reasonable to be worried about the expedition's leadership, I think she's got plenty enough levers and influence already if she needs to take control in an emergency. I think taking leadership of the knights is overreaching and unnecessary.
Plus, much as I want to see more of General Mathilde, she's been spending her time getting better as a Battle Wizard-lite and solo scouting-adventurer. Not at leading hundreds of troops. The expedition will be significantly more effective with the Knight's own leader at the command table. Three dwarves and two humans will I think be much better than three dwarves and one human.
I'm switching to this from leading everyone. While it's reasonable to be worried about the expedition's leadership, I think she's got plenty enough levers and influence already if she needs to take control in an emergency. I think taking leadership of the knights is overreaching and unnecessary.
Plus, much as I want to see more of General Mathilde, she's been spending her time getting better as a Battle Wizard-lite and solo scouting-adventurer. Not at leading hundreds of troops. The expedition will be significantly more effective with the Knight's own leader at the command table. Three dwarves and two humans will I think be much better than three dwarves and one human.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Given that the word is very closely derived from the original Latin for "horse," it kind of... is "horseforce," just without smacking together the Germanic-language word for 'horse' and a Latin-derived word 'force' because they happen to rhyme in modern English.
Also some of our cavalry don't even ride horses.
ShyPerson
Guardian of the dead’s final rest.
- Location
- Sweden
- Pronouns
- Him/He
The correct term for this situation is Demi-gryphonry and Winter Wolfery.
FixedGiven that the word is very closely derived from the original Latin for "horse," it kind of... is "horseforce," just without smacking together the Germanic-language word for 'horse' and a Latin-derived word 'force' because they happen to rhyme in modern English.
Alsosome ofour cavalry don't even ride horses.
I vaguely recall that it didn't, because they already considered us head of the head of the K8Ps Mage Guild, which means grandmaster by default (similar to Gotri's situation).
Though we might get non-salary perks, like a bigger book fond.
I don't think we have any horses. There's kittybirds, wolfs and chunks of magic. Maybe some of the wizards used some, but I don't think the main combat forces have any.Also some of our cavalry don't even ride horses.
Winter Wolfery is quite excellent.
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
Technically we don't even have cavalry, since cavalry is only for horse-mounted forces. Camel riders are called camelry, and elephant riders called elephantry. So the expedition has no cavalry at all, but it does have demigriffry and wolfery.