Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Asheram
Not quite altogether
- Location
- Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground
I'm just waiting for Mathilde to be known as a patron saint of Grimnir. The Kazakgandi. The Battlefinder.
Some slayers will find their end on bandits, orks, or even trolls. Others will join a doomed expedition to die against hordes of enemies. But the Kazakgand, she will find success where others find not, and dying in such an undertaking, to benefit all dwarves, is the most glorious end of all.
Afraid I couldn't find the Khazalid word for Weaver.
Some slayers will find their end on bandits, orks, or even trolls. Others will join a doomed expedition to die against hordes of enemies. But the Kazakgand, she will find success where others find not, and dying in such an undertaking, to benefit all dwarves, is the most glorious end of all.
Afraid I couldn't find the Khazalid word for Weaver.
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SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Consider that protector face means we're liable to gain rep with Kislev as well for this.
Taking out a front line chaos force on the door stop of Kislev that was hidden and bidding its time for two hundred years is going to be pretty nuts and the protector will ensure that it's known about if we do it.
So boosts with Kislev, Karaz-ankor in general, potentially Karak Vlag survivors if there are any in runed areas, if we were hoping Karak Dum to have survivors I wouldn't credit it being impossible for the same to be true of Vlag.
Taking out a front line chaos force on the door stop of Kislev that was hidden and bidding its time for two hundred years is going to be pretty nuts and the protector will ensure that it's known about if we do it.
So boosts with Kislev, Karaz-ankor in general, potentially Karak Vlag survivors if there are any in runed areas, if we were hoping Karak Dum to have survivors I wouldn't credit it being impossible for the same to be true of Vlag.
- Location
- Earth
we still have to achieve success before counting the chickens that haven't hatched yet.
- Location
- Australia
The Protector means that people we know we protected people and they think we acted selflessly. When we retook Karak Eight Peaks, people knew what we did and they didn't think we were doing it for selfish reasons, and for it we got 40 favour. The way I'm thinking, if the Expedition retakes Karak Vlag, Borek would normally get the lion's share of the favour due to leading it, but thanks to the Protector it'll be Mathilde instead, so she'll get up to 40 favour instead of a significantly reduced amount.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Absolutely, but my point is even if all we do is lock Vlag into the warp. We'll get that Kislev boost.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You missed the most important stat. Leadership. Orcs have always been bottom tier competitively due to their low leadership and Undead and Daemons ability to ignore the morale game required balancing with Crumbling and Isntability. Leadership isn't *just* morale either. High Leadership also make manouvering your army much easier. The reason Dwarfs, High Elves and Dark Elves where almost always high tier can be laid in large part at the feet of their ability to both not run away and reform consistantly and efficiantly.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I mean, sort of. His worshippers have this idea pushed on them that fighting a skillful opponent in melee combat, without sorcery or anything like that, means you've accomplished something other than just pure bloodshed in and of itself.* There's lots of references to taking skulls of worthy opponents and things like that.
Of course, not coincidentally, the kind of combat Khornates consider 'honorable,' with no ranged weapons or sorcery or whatever, just happens to be the kind of combat they're best at, so go figure.
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Plus, of course, Khornates are also totally fine with massacring civilians and so on just to get those oceans of blood pouring.*
Mass murder is their profession. Honorable hand-to-hand single combat between champions is just their hobby.
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*(not that there's anything wrong with extra bloodshed to a Khornate of course!)
Given the odds that failure will mean some kind of horrible death, we might as well plan for at least partial success. Say, successfully extricating ourselves from the immediate area on terms that let us alert the forces of Order to the existence of the problem. Which would still net us considerable credit.
Uh, to be clear I'm not talking about tabletop stats, though those do roughly align with the categories I'm talking about.
Notably, you're saying "Leadership" in the sense that someone not talking about tabletop wargaming would probably say "morale," "cohesion," or something like that. I'd put it under a mix of categories (2) and (3) in my previous rundown. It's a form of 'skill/dexterity' in that it lets you live up to the potential lethality and power of your own forces more fully, and it's a form of durability and resilience in that it stops you from being shattered by threats.
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- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm aware of morale and cohesion @Simon_Jester. I focused on the stats because that's what I though you where doing. I would still seperate it out from your four catagories.
- Location
- Argentina
So, this points out to either the hold being uninhabited, which is unlikely, or some resistance being here. I think the correct choice is to try to flush out the daemons into reality
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- Location
- Alaska
Well, I still think its a terrible idea to kick open a door to hell so they can pick a fight with the devil, but one thing I've learned about this setting is that wizards and dwarf's are perfectly capable of doing it.
With support from the tanks and the Demigryph knights they have a real shot of beating anything that comes crawling out of there, and they might have a couple days to dig some trenches and bunkers, and maybe have the wizards prepare some anti-chaos stuff.
With support from the tanks and the Demigryph knights they have a real shot of beating anything that comes crawling out of there, and they might have a couple days to dig some trenches and bunkers, and maybe have the wizards prepare some anti-chaos stuff.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
*looks at avatar*
I imagine it isn't fun to have your door kicked open by someone trying to pick a fight with you, yes.
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
- Location
- Mother Russia
Pedantic mode: the term really should be Kazakgandi. You really need that -i suffix to signify it's a person. Well, there are a couple exceptions to that rule, but I can't find any rhime or reason for when it is the case.
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His.
[x] Waystone Clog
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
Doesn't that fall under the same category as mining picks then? Not something to arm people with but definitely something to have on you and stick into your enemy if an axe or hammer is for some reason not in reach.
I think I'm just trying to model the Rangers and asking if something like a multi-purpose military knife similar to what modern RL militaries use is a thing that they have as standard equipment.
At the very least Karak Vlag was a relatively close neighbor to his own Karak Kadrin and as a Ranger he probably had regular contact with their rangers if he's old enough. And if he isn't then his father did (Ranger Clan). His only loyalty to Karag Dum that we know of is that he is an honorable Dwarf of the Karaz Ankor that agreed to lead the Ranger contingent of Borek's expedition.
I don't think he just got the trait IC. It's more like Mathilde witnessed his relevant skills for the first time and "unlocked" a piece of hidden trait information on his NPC character sheet.
It seems perfectly acceptable for a servant of one Chaos God to fuck with major plans or entertainment sources of another Chaos God.
What's the institutional "common" knowledge Dwarves have on Waystones? Like on the non-restricted level of well connected politicians, Thanes, high level advisors and Loremasters with interest in magic stuff?
Huh? Does that mean that the Waystones in between don't drain magic out of the environment or that the environmental magic in question for some reason bypasses the Karaks and continues on its merry way towards Ulthuan?
Do we know anything about Dwarven personal courtship/wedding gifts between couples that aren't majorly important to clan politics?
Dame is the title that denotes us as a knight.
What does this refer to? Because we are just the majority shareholder and a member of the board of directors when ot comes to the EIC. And maybe the CSO.
IIRC that was more about never having been in a situation where they applied since the last time. Not a single fight where our own throng or warband clashed with that of another hero-led military unit.
I can live with those odds.
[X] All of the above, in reverse order, until we see a result:
-[X] First the Light Wizards try their best for a bit.
-[X] If they can't figure it out, have Cyrston drain the leyline on the way to the next Waystone.
-[X] If he can't get any results, clog said next Waystone.
[X] Waystone Clog
[X] Light Chorus
[X] Waystone Interruption
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Kazakgandi, kazak ghandi, battle ghandi !
Let's nuke the mountain !
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
So this morning, as I was going through my notifications, I received a heads-up that this post from last year had gotten a react:
3. We can put out a bounty like we did for dragonbone and see what turns up, I guess.
4. Yes.
5. Dice roll.
7. We don't know for sure. It was probably the Horned Rat.
Oh, past me. If only you knew.
It was this:You know, I do wonder if Kragg might outright adopt us should we succeed in recovering Karag Vlag. Especially if we manage to get Dum in the bargain as well. What was that thing Boney said about single-handedly rescuing lost Karaks again?
But, uh, given our resume:
2. We can try to; it's not guaranteed that we'll be able to do so without them being damaged in some way, but it's definitely possible.
3. We can put out a bounty like we did for dragonbone and see what turns up, I guess.
4. Yes.
5. Dice roll.
7. We don't know for sure. It was probably the Horned Rat.
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
- Location
- Mother Russia
Mountains are not enemies.
He was not executed. In fact, he was allowed to return to Talabecland and retained some power there.
He also tried to bring Ghal Maraz (and everything else which was not nailed down) to him into his exile, but that plan was foiled by the Grey College, which played a significant part in the re-establishment of the Colleges of Magic.
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Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
So the thread says.
I am still low-key annoyed that we chose not to destroy the very mountain that Castle Drakenhof once stood upon. Blasted mountain deserves it after the crimes against
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
*Assuming no secret necromancy practitioners in the caravan
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
"Start slowly, like an avalanche." <-- Still my favorite motto of the quest. Mathilde starts slowly and unseen, yes, but by the time you do see her she's hitting with all the force of, well, an avalanche.