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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Nat 1's gonna nat 1. We would have straight up died on a Substance of Shadow rescue nat 1, too....

Holy hell, the world is not kind is it?
 
Mopman43 said:
Assuming the Dolgan hold through and we don't lose anymore wagons, I don't think the food situation is really affected by going forward or turning back. We'd be at 2 weeks of storage either way. Probably dependent on another supply run to Uzkulak.
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Aranfan said:
It also means we'll need to buy from Uzkulak on the way back if we don't suffer enough attrition.
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Right, Kislev is three weeks away, not two weeks away. Shit, yeah, that's quite bad.
 
Well, this feels comparable to "Rock falls, your waifu dies" development. Clearly, Gotrek isn't Gotrek yet, but wow, one of the favorite characters... gone in a blink of an eye.
 
My first inclination is that it's over, we turn back, try and buy more at Uzkulak again.

But, how far are we from where we expected to contact the Dolgan now? Is it possible to check whether they are ready and intending to follow through doable within, say, a day?
 
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Crazycryodude said:
I don't think Rite of Way would have even helped that much, this is just the kind of shit that happens on a nat 1. Sometimes you get sideswiped by a rockslide and die, that's just life I guess. It sucks but there's also not much to do but notch another one for coincidence being the deadliest motherfucker on the planet, pick up the pieces, and press on.
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Yeah, when you roll two bad rolls during an important period... well, you move into 'How well can you survive/recover?' territory. And if you don't ace those rolls then, well, this happens. =/ At least Deathfang and Asarnil are okay.
picklepikkl said:
The real issue isn't food supply per se, it's food storage. If we can only carry two weeks of food at a time, that means we have much less capacity to take advantage of surpluses and hedge against bad times.

However, we'll probably be getting more food from the Dolgan. Assuming we buy from them on the way up to Dum and buy from them again on the way back, we will have about two weeks of food at around this point on the return trip, too. So this isn't a complete logistical catastrophe: it just cuts our error margin down to the bone.
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If we buy animals, rather than sheer food, from the Dolgan than that covers food storage I think? Because we can have the animals travel with us, rather than be transported in a steam-wagon. Herds can travel on their own, basically.

... Hm.

Actually, maybe there's another thing we could do. @BoneyM maybe we could buy transport animals from the Dolgan too? i.e. Not just food, but animals that can transport stuff.

Only question is, does buying mules or whatever, ease our food logistics situation enough compared to having a few more animals to feed? (Although thankfully this time it's not giant carnivores.)
 
... definitely getting flashbacks to the Sylvania campaign.
Alright. Alright. We keep talking about weeks of travel, but that's weeks of Landship travel which is at a snail's pace.
If we push onward then, at least, we'll get to see Dum before things go worse. We can expend the landships there in the retaking, and at worst leave them there.
 
Fuck, we couldn't even find the body...

I think we have to press on, although I do wonder what happens if we completely fail going forward. People don't just keel over and die of starvation all at once; the Dwarfs would probably starve quietly if it came to that, but everyone else would be dealing with potential desertions. Worst case scenario we could probably save ourselves, but it'd mean leaving the expedition, which would hurt our relationship with the Dwarf people something fierce.

All in all it probably doesn't bear thinking about but we're well within the realm of possible outcomes now.
 
So we're three weeks out if we retreat.

Thing is we can probably overclock the wagons to cut that down. We know the issue with them was that they start breaking if they go too fast too long, and the round trip would be too much for them. We'd be cutting it short.
 
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