@BoneyM Just to further check Mathilde level of Dwarf Infection... How well does Mathilde like Dwarf Ale and how much can she hold?
And I am not meant Dwarf Ale made to sale in the Empire, I meant true Dwarf Ale the one wich a few pints can sustain a Dwarf Warrior on the march for days or kill the liver of a regular human...
That's mostly a human myth that conflates regular Dwarven ale with ethanol. Marching ale is as nourishing to humans as it is to Dwarves, and no more dangerous to them than any other equally alcohol drink. That said, Mathilde does enjoy a flagon in lieu of meals if she's too occupied with a project to sort something more substantial out.
2) A proper schooling system for humans/halflings in K8P, all the way up to best-human-equivalent teaching for engineering and sciences for the more promising candidate, with the tuition costs being covered by K8P, and all K8P citizens are eligible to attend (and attendance is mandatory up to a certain level of education), as well as any non-K8P human willing to pay for their own tuition (either in money or a mandatory number of years of staying at/serving the Karak). Not only would this provide a pretty serious incentive for people to immigrate to K8P (giving K8P some of what it really needs: people), it'd also create a large number of well-educated people able to take up a bunch of potential professions.
This would severely
reduce immigration, and possibly cause people to leave. Why would parents want to trap their children in education for much of their youth instead of them getting a head-start on employment like ten-year-olds do in the Empire?
Karak Eight Peaks is one of the most secure places in the Old World. It is a very defensible major Karak with an army destroying superweapon, a relatively friendly dragon in residence and another very defensible major Karak nearby.
There is no reason to believe that the 'relatively friendly dragon' will do more than say 'have fun' when an enemy starts banging on the doors, which is exactly what they did last time.
When is this, in comparison to the expedition turns? And is this before or after the emergency conclave?
Now. If it wasn't, it would have something to give an idea when it was taking place.
Dwarves under siege have enough food to feed 20,000 people for nearly two centuries without having to go half rations or anything? Where do they even store all this stuff?
Dwarves have crops that thrive in low-light conditions and Runes that can stand in for the sun. They grow crops on the surface when they can because it's more efficient, not because it's mandatory.
@BoneyM is
that a viable spell idea?
It says
revealing or
concealing troop movements
. Not facilitating. It could make a vehicle stealthier but it can't create it from scratch.
How did the Empire help the Dwarves, actually? Did they send troops to assist them in battle despite being horribly fractured most of the time? Or was it just the fact that their presence secured one flank and provided opportunity to trade for food and sundry supplies?
It made trade relatively safe, not just with the humans but with other Dwarfholds. It made travel and prospecting and outposts much safer. It meant that much of the Reik basin was populated with humans instead of breeding a steady stream of gribblies, and the gribblies living in the rest of it focused on the humans instead of the Dwarves. It meant trade that wanted to go through Dwarf-controlled passes, causing a stream of passive income. The rise of organized human polities completely changed the Old World, and the largest of them had a religious commandment to be buddies with the Dwarves.
despite some people for some strange reason are adamant in saying, even though it is literally Hidi's end game to change it : Ranald is not an official god of the empire.
He is. His representatives show up to Grand Conclaves and everything. Even when they aren't invited. Even when they move the Grand Conclave without telling anyone to try to prevent them from showing up.
@Boney do dwarves have a concept of life-debts? I.e "i shall serve you all my life?"
No. Debts without a set value are anathema to Dwarven thought, and they believe debts can be inherited, so the whole 'life debt' thing wouldn't make any sense to them.
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@BoneyM
What level of things would Mathy need to accomplish at this point to eclipse Sigmar in Dwarf rep?
Like is it for instance outright neccesary for Mathilde to kill a everchosen (assuming Archaon or someone else still shows up at some point in the future) or Nagash when he eventually comes back (as he has done like what, 5 times already? Or some shit like that)
Or would it be sufficient if Mathilde somehow reclaimed like, I dunno another 6 major holds?
Save the High King, the Throne of Power, and by extension the entire Karaz Ankor, defeat two separate threats to the entire world, completely redraw the geopolitical landscape of the continent to be much friendlier to the Karaz Ankor, found an extremely widespread religion that has being friendly to the Karaz Ankor as a central tenet. That would get you close to even with Sigmar, from where you'd have to come up with something new to outstrip Him.
By the way, would it be worthwhile to give Kragg an after action report on this? I wonder if he could make use of the information on rune function somehow.
'Cannot trump a Chaos God' is a limitation he's probably already aware of.
@BoneyM What did get written into that letter and/or the messenger knight's oral message?
As head of the Expedition, Borek wrote it. Presumably it said something like 'Vlag's back but doesn't believe it, they could use protection and convincing until they do'.
@BoneyM Whenever I do a reread of the early chapters I notice some typos. Would it be appreciated if I pointed those out, or would you rather I not?
Please do. I correct what I notice when I do a reread but there always seems to be more somehow.
@BoneyM Is mathilde good enough with handguns so that she could use the marksdwarf gun as a sniper tool at her actual level of skill, or will she require more action to train with guns before pulling that off?
If she had time to line up a shot against a stationary target.
Question, but... doesn't the Chaos Cup need daemon blood to function? It occurs to me that that might be the only reason why there was a Daemonette present, As a functional aide for the cup.
It's found full and breaks when it's emptied, so the user doesn't need to supply anything except their thirst.
Do all of the Expedition Engineers understand the difficulties involved in whipping together some Battle Magic in a year and a half, and then spending half of our waking ours casting it? Because we definitely acted to defend people from the terrain of the Wastes with Rite of Way.
No, too abstract.
