Written by the Victors (Warhammer Fantasy)
- Thread starter Aranfan
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Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Yes, although the tally might have issues with duplicates. Putting more dice into outfitting a skeletal legion will be taken to mean you want to equip the legion better, while taking it multiple times will be taken to mean you want to have a bunch of them.
- Location
- United States
Would the same be true of the Train Necromancers action? As in, one action with two dice means that they get more involved training instead of training more of them?
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Not at this stage.
hghwolf
Bird of contempt
I assume that having more necromancers and teaching force multipliers like the school would change that ?
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
indeed
How much good can they have? We'll probably grind them down pretty soon.
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- She/Her
Maybe, though they haven't sent a full assualt yet. I suspect we want to not be *too* scary so we don't make people antsy about our intentions to expand and get stomped.
Turn 5 Results
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Turn 5 Results
Train Necromancers – 2 dice
Most people think that Magic is something one is born or cursed with. While it is true that some people are born with an innate talent for it, the truth is that magic is a skill that can be trained like any other. It is harder with those who need to learn how to see or feel the magic, but still entirely possible.
Foreseeing a need for a larger number of necromancers in the future, recruitment starts in the two villages. Lads and lasses who want to make something of themselves and show interest in the work are apprenticed to necromancers who are licensed.
Outfit a Skeleton Legion – 2 dice
Metal is expensive. It must be torn from the earth, itself a process that requires metal. It must be prepared and the correct rituals observed by learned men who know the secrets of separating metal from stone. If the rituals are conducted incorrectly, the material can be ruined.
Even once the metal is freed from the stone, it must be shaped to some purpose or another. This is also skilled work. It requires craftsmen who know other secrets of metal, and who know how to shape it for the specific task at hand. The training of which takes years and years to learn well.
Metal is expensive, but it is extremely useful. With steel breastplate and helmets, your wights are now heavily armored and will be much more survivable in the field.
Scout Surroundings – 1 die
Between the greenskins and the coalition it was a good thing Sinfi spent much of her time scouting. If she hadn't the republic might have had to choose between a razed plantation and a siege. With appropriate forewarning of the enemy's plans however, she was able to meet every attack in the field.
The republic remains safe this year.
Try to spread your viewpoint among your neighbors, the people not the elites – 1 die
You send some people out to the surrounding villages. Not to gather information or anything, just to talk. The neighbors are somewhat standoffish but they don't run your people out of town or anything. Eventually they even start asking questions. They seemed intrigued by the idea of the dead working for the living, and the notion that the speaker was willing to have his skeleton feed his children after he died even got some nods.
Will anything come of it? Who knows. But at the very least the common folk around you don't hate your guts.
[Infamy increases to Very High]
Train Necromancers – 2 dice
Most people think that Magic is something one is born or cursed with. While it is true that some people are born with an innate talent for it, the truth is that magic is a skill that can be trained like any other. It is harder with those who need to learn how to see or feel the magic, but still entirely possible.
Foreseeing a need for a larger number of necromancers in the future, recruitment starts in the two villages. Lads and lasses who want to make something of themselves and show interest in the work are apprenticed to necromancers who are licensed.
Outfit a Skeleton Legion – 2 dice
Metal is expensive. It must be torn from the earth, itself a process that requires metal. It must be prepared and the correct rituals observed by learned men who know the secrets of separating metal from stone. If the rituals are conducted incorrectly, the material can be ruined.
Even once the metal is freed from the stone, it must be shaped to some purpose or another. This is also skilled work. It requires craftsmen who know other secrets of metal, and who know how to shape it for the specific task at hand. The training of which takes years and years to learn well.
Metal is expensive, but it is extremely useful. With steel breastplate and helmets, your wights are now heavily armored and will be much more survivable in the field.
Scout Surroundings – 1 die
Between the greenskins and the coalition it was a good thing Sinfi spent much of her time scouting. If she hadn't the republic might have had to choose between a razed plantation and a siege. With appropriate forewarning of the enemy's plans however, she was able to meet every attack in the field.
The republic remains safe this year.
Try to spread your viewpoint among your neighbors, the people not the elites – 1 die
You send some people out to the surrounding villages. Not to gather information or anything, just to talk. The neighbors are somewhat standoffish but they don't run your people out of town or anything. Eventually they even start asking questions. They seemed intrigued by the idea of the dead working for the living, and the notion that the speaker was willing to have his skeleton feed his children after he died even got some nods.
Will anything come of it? Who knows. But at the very least the common folk around you don't hate your guts.
[Infamy increases to Very High]
- Location
- Someplace Somewhere
Yeah we have probably just spooked johann into attacking us directly.
hghwolf
Bird of contempt
He was going to do that anyway.
You know imagine if you are a villager in a place called Muckbridge, You are young, bored and have a expectation of looking at the south end of a northbound donkey for the rest of your life, then the undead invade and... save you from a life of toil and menial labor. Then a few years later when you are starting to get bored of all the theater someone asks you 'hey kid do you want to be a necromancer and command legions of the dead?'
I can just imagine the village elders grumbling about Mor and our new crop of sassy necromancers asking what good Mor has ever done. I mean you put bones in the ground and then you have to guard them? Lazy is what that is.
I can just imagine the village elders grumbling about Mor and our new crop of sassy necromancers asking what good Mor has ever done. I mean you put bones in the ground and then you have to guard them? Lazy is what that is.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
He already has been.
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- She/Her
Woo! Another turn of safety. Its worrying that Johann the bigot has been able to keep this up for two years though... I hope he either runs out of money soon or we will need to go on the offencive.
Turn 6
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
You have 6 Resource Dice to spend between various actions.
Legislative Directive:
'To Warlord Johann
Despite having taken no offensive action against you, you have tirelessly spent the last decade attacking us. If you insist on continuing to do so despite no provocation on our part, we will be forced for our own safety to take proactive action to make you unable to continue threatening us.
The Strigany Republic'
'You godless heathens have continually offended ever since you tore the dead from their rest. I will not stop until you are sent to the warp.'
Diplomacy
[] Attempt to reach out to Cauldin
[] Talk to the Tilean across the river
[] Build Merchant Connections
[] Try to spread your viewpoint among your neighbors, the people not the elites
[] Try to buy Warpstone
Public Works
[] Build Libraries
[] Build Bathhouses
[] Survey for resources
[] Build Necromancy School in Halomik Town
[] Improve farmland
Magic
[] Create Reference Tome "Second Principles of Necromancy"
[] Train Necromancers
[] Magical Panoply: Sinfi pt 2
[] Magical Panoply: Moti pt 2
[] Reanimate Wyverns Requires warpstone
-[] Zombie Dragon
-[] 2 Terrorgiests
[] Make Warpstone (Warning: Dangerous)
Judicial Services
[] Compile Law
[] Promulgate laws
[] Train Arbitrators
Martial
[] Scout surroundings.
[] Outfit a Skeleton Legion
[] Raid Blue Tooth Goblins
[] Improve Walls around Halomik Town
[] Find some warpstone to acquire
[] Mobilize necromancers
[] Sinfi is to conquer the Coalition
In order to encourage discussion there will be a one hour moratorium on voting.
Legislative Directive:
'To Warlord Johann
Despite having taken no offensive action against you, you have tirelessly spent the last decade attacking us. If you insist on continuing to do so despite no provocation on our part, we will be forced for our own safety to take proactive action to make you unable to continue threatening us.
The Strigany Republic'
'You godless heathens have continually offended ever since you tore the dead from their rest. I will not stop until you are sent to the warp.'
Diplomacy
[] Attempt to reach out to Cauldin
[] Talk to the Tilean across the river
[] Build Merchant Connections
[] Try to spread your viewpoint among your neighbors, the people not the elites
[] Try to buy Warpstone
Public Works
[] Build Libraries
[] Build Bathhouses
[] Survey for resources
[] Build Necromancy School in Halomik Town
[] Improve farmland
Magic
[] Create Reference Tome "Second Principles of Necromancy"
[] Train Necromancers
[] Magical Panoply: Sinfi pt 2
[] Magical Panoply: Moti pt 2
-[] Zombie Dragon
-[] 2 Terrorgiests
[] Make Warpstone (Warning: Dangerous)
Judicial Services
[] Compile Law
[] Promulgate laws
[] Train Arbitrators
Martial
[] Scout surroundings.
[] Outfit a Skeleton Legion
[] Raid Blue Tooth Goblins
[] Improve Walls around Halomik Town
[] Find some warpstone to acquire
[] Mobilize necromancers
[] Sinfi is to conquer the Coalition
In order to encourage discussion there will be a one hour moratorium on voting.
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- She/Her
hmm I reaally want to start on the School, and also bathhouses sound nice, but I suspect that sending Sinfi forth to conquer would be worth doing first. It also occures to me that Dante might be more amenible to talks now after a few years have past.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Are the Necromancers we trained last turn trained enough that we can Mobilize them this turn?
I would rather do bathhouse before library. While reading is nice hygiene can save lives, especially given our close contact to corpses. That would be dangerous enough if there weren't a god of plague out there
- Location
- United States
[] Plan Warlord of the People
- [] Try to spread your viewpoint among your neighbors, the people not the elites: 3 Die
- [] Sinfi is to conquer the Coalition: 3 Die
Preliminary plan. Short simple and to the point. Conquer the Coalition while sending out propaganda that we're not here to be brutal undead slavemasters and such.
- [] Try to spread your viewpoint among your neighbors, the people not the elites: 3 Die
- [] Sinfi is to conquer the Coalition: 3 Die
Preliminary plan. Short simple and to the point. Conquer the Coalition while sending out propaganda that we're not here to be brutal undead slavemasters and such.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I like it. If we can prevent another war breaking out right away that should let us do inferstructure stuff next turn.
I broadly agree but I do see one issue with going hard on propaganda, it may trigger the 'lords' around us and it would not really be good to roll one war into another so maybe we should throw a standard diplo action in there.