We are far more likely to stir something up than to get sucker punched IMO.
We Are the Gods of a New World Order [Warhammer 50K ~ Warp God Simulator]
- Thread starter Alectai
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We are far more likely to stir something up than to get sucker punched IMO.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
I mean strictly speaking everything organisms do is within the portfolio of life. You can't really expect the Verdant Maiden to be equally enthused about all of it.
- Location
- The Netherlands
also she isn't a fertillity goddess and the second part of her name is Maiden
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
Okay, finally had enough time to make my own plan.
[X] Plan Quality Weaving
-[X] Expanding Further (DC 20+)
--[X] Manpower Token (1 Use Left)
-[X] Into the Capital (DC 50)
--[X] Hero Unit: Horatio (0 Uses Left)
--[X] Domains: Connection (1 Use Left)
-[X] Quality of Life (DC 60)
--[X] Hero Unit: Dana (1 Use Left)
--[X] Hero Unit: Layla (0 Uses Left)
--[X] Manpower Token (0 Uses Left)
--[X] Domains: Weaving (0 Uses Left)
-[X] Helping Others is helping yourself! (DC 50)
--[X] Hero Unit: Dana (0 Uses Left)
Notice that this plan goes, as the name implies, very heavily on enhacing the Quality of Life.
The other reason I'm doing this is because we really don't have many Favor Tokens available for this turn, and limiting ourselves to actions that don't have available multiple "Domain-slots" will mean that we can throw later on more stuff at once to them. I think we should do this, especially for the Kinetic Actions that we have available, because they will be critical for our future military build-up, which I'm hoping that we can delay for a one turn as we the Governor seems to be turtling up once again. Getting Miracles on them will raise our chances of making our forces much stronger in the long run, if we can afford the wait for optimal or semi-optimal conditions.
...Also, I might want to read Ordo Malleus to reacting to increasingly ludicrous field reports. Because those are some good stuff.
[X] Plan Quality Weaving
-[X] Expanding Further (DC 20+)
--[X] Manpower Token (1 Use Left)
-[X] Into the Capital (DC 50)
--[X] Hero Unit: Horatio (0 Uses Left)
--[X] Domains: Connection (1 Use Left)
-[X] Quality of Life (DC 60)
--[X] Hero Unit: Dana (1 Use Left)
--[X] Hero Unit: Layla (0 Uses Left)
--[X] Manpower Token (0 Uses Left)
--[X] Domains: Weaving (0 Uses Left)
-[X] Helping Others is helping yourself! (DC 50)
--[X] Hero Unit: Dana (0 Uses Left)
Notice that this plan goes, as the name implies, very heavily on enhacing the Quality of Life.
The reason I'm doing so is because the action seems to be the first step into making a self-sustainable infrastructure for our cultists, more specifically one that doesn't require constant divine interventions. Our Weavers will be vital for the society, as almost all of our advanced tech will probably be biotech on one level or another. So partially failing it might slow us down in that matter, or present other annoying obstacles. But I also think that trying to trigger a Miracle there by going all in could likely pay itself back in a huge manner if we pass the 100 ceiling, as we saw happen with our Weavers, and the quality in that case will likely be further enhanced by throwing in two Heroes instead of just one.
The other reason I'm doing this is because we really don't have many Favor Tokens available for this turn, and limiting ourselves to actions that don't have available multiple "Domain-slots" will mean that we can throw later on more stuff at once to them. I think we should do this, especially for the Kinetic Actions that we have available, because they will be critical for our future military build-up, which I'm hoping that we can delay for a one turn as we the Governor seems to be turtling up once again. Getting Miracles on them will raise our chances of making our forces much stronger in the long run, if we can afford the wait for optimal or semi-optimal conditions.
...Also, I might want to read Ordo Malleus to reacting to increasingly ludicrous field reports. Because those are some good stuff.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
My thinking:
[] Plan Neighborly Concerns
EDIT: And just as I post this, meianmaru posts something I like better. I particularly like this analysis:
We probably don't need the hero bonus on expanding further, especially since we have a +5 omake bonus, and hopefully we get something really good out of Quality of Life.
[X] Plan Quality Weaving
- Without as much Favor to go around, we need to take advantage of stacked bonuses.
- Let's not put unaccompanied Manpower on actions where failure might really suck.
- We should really follow up our success with a recruitment action.
[] Plan Neighborly Concerns
EDIT: And just as I post this, meianmaru posts something I like better. I particularly like this analysis:
It's a very good point. Stacking hero/manpower bonuses is most efficiently done on stuff that doesn't have multiple Domain slots available for the future. Next turn we can shove a ton of Domains at our DC 75 actions and have a much better shot at succeeding, whereas Quality of Life is only ever going to allow for one Domain token.
We probably don't need the hero bonus on expanding further, especially since we have a +5 omake bonus, and hopefully we get something really good out of Quality of Life.
[X] Plan Quality Weaving
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[X] Plan Quality Weaving
[X] Plan Quality Weaving.
- Pronouns
- Viewer
[X] Plan Quality Weaving.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
[X] Plan Quality Weaving
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
By the way, while I feel pretty confident about my current plan, especially after going over it in discord first before posting it, I'd like to remind people that I fucked up the analysis for the optimal blessings. The actual usefulness, in the order of how effective they were or would have been:
With that in mind, I would draw your attention to at least some of the people who actually made the correct or semi-correct analysis about situation if you want throw likes or something their way.
The Lifebane was actually completely useless for the fight, with the killing power gained from it being just about completely unnecessary, and the regen gained from Life Drain / lifesteal actually creates a regen-"buff" that lasts for a while, and heals a limited amount of "hitpoints", which means it actually is good with hit-and-run tactics. Asking more questions about how it functions exactly from Alectai before making the vote(s) would have likely prevented this misunderstanding from happening, but luckily the tutorial-battle setting and the dice, which came more into use because of the suboptimal choices, were both merciful.
With that in mind, I would draw your attention to at least some of the people who actually made the correct or semi-correct analysis about situation if you want throw likes or something their way.
[X] Plan Quality Weaving
- Location
- Goose Land
[X] Plan Quality Weaving
ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
- Location
- PNW
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Plan Quality Weaving
I mean unless someone has a better idea this works
I mean unless someone has a better idea this works
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Takeaways from this encounter on the crossover between numbers and narrative:
- A delta of 2 over enemy Toughness would have been enough for killshots, at least when you're against Light Armor and have effectiveness against it (Our ranged power was 6, enemy Toughness was 4, I had thought we wanted the Death buff to turn wounds into kills, but it seems we didn't need that).
- A delta of 1 over enemy Toughness is not likely to killshot, even when effective against Infantry Armor (enemy ranged power was 6, we would have had 5 without our Toughness boost, and it seems we wouldn't have taken deaths if we'd had the regen buff).
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This was also a shock and awe operation. In an entrenched fight we might very well need deathbane to scythe through them.