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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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As another aside, I've been thinking a little bit more about Gotrek, in his aspect of the Old World's worst slayer -- and the more I think about it, the more certain I am that the Divided Loyalties-verse didn't lose anything more than a brave and talented engineer with Gotrek's death. Gotrek's axe -- implied to be Grimnir's -- "carries a mighty freight of destiny." Moreover, Teclis describes it as "changing" its wielder. More directly, it took a pretty ordinary engineer and turned him into quite possibly the deadliest dwarf on the planet in the spitting image of Grimnir. The implication of all of this, to me, is that the axe is going to be found when and if Grimnir decides it will, and that he also has a great deal of say in how it gets used (up to and including molding a successor out of the user).
 
Klaus said:
Don't forget, if they have that many survivors, they will have some runesmiths of their own. Even if they can't match the full Kragg Experience (TM) we can make do with less overwhelming, but still relevant, runes of Gazul.
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you are both vastly overestimating the usefulness of a shadow tower, and vastly underestimating the difficulties of making the tower.
 
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Burning Shadow Tower? Maybe. Burning Mountain Tower? I doubt it. It wasn't easy convincing reality that the mountain was part of the tower.
 
I think these guys would probably have arcane defenses of their own.

Karak Eight Peaks had no such defenses or towers, because it was enemy-occupied for literal millennia. (And even then, there was Bok!) That was why we built something. And it fortunately turned out to be awesome.

For Karag Dum...

Actually, I wonder.

What is Dum's engineering section like? What kind of cannons and warmachines and guns do they have, I wonder?
 
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So, which of you is wrong?
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The two statements aren't contradictory - Mathilde doesn't have Melkoth/Algard/Grey/Grey along to provide their particular skills and knowledge, but Mathilde could absolutely take a crack at duplicating (parts of) their work without them.

She might not succeed, but them's the breaks when you choose risky/difficult options that would be totally awesome if they worked out.
 
Something I have been thinking about is that Boney m said that taking land in a Forrest and clearing it would means who ever did that would own it. Now if we could get say the empress to push for that there is a lot of rich people who would like titles and land. The problem is that succeeding would be a problem. Now if say the colleges of wizards and a helpful company with firearms and gun power could provide the firepower than all the rush people would have to do is find men willing to fight for gold. Forrests in one providence can slowly start to be reclaimed. The thing is a endeavor like this would need someone who can have access to mercenaries, wizards and logistics.
 
Nurgle said:
Something I have been thinking about is that Boney m said that taking land in a Forrest and clearing it would means who ever did that would own it. Now if we could get say the empress to push for that there is a lot of rich people who would like titles and land. The problem is that succeeding would be a problem. Now if say the colleges of wizards and a helpful company with firearms and gun power could provide the firepower than all the rush people would have to do is find men willing to fight for gold. Forrests in one providence can slowly start to be reclaimed. The thing is a endeavor like this would need someone who can have access to mercenaries, wizards and logistics.
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...Yes, having the firepower to clear out and hold the land is the entirety of the problem. It's not a shortage of people who'd like to be landowners. Which raises the question of why we'd do all of the work for none of the benefit, when we could do all of the work and also reap the benefit?
 
Deathbybunnies said:
...Yes, having the firepower to clear out and hold the land is the entirety of the problem. It's not a shortage of people who'd like to be landowners. Which raises the question of why we'd do all of the work for none of the benefit, when we could do all of the work and also reap the benefit?
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Because we have a lot of rich people indebted to us and make the world a little safer.
 
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