Katie
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Post by Katie on Mar 15, 2016 15:28:36 GMT
What's the relative quality of "unpredictable" for the purposes of lesser/greater quality in combat?
Well. Two possibilities; The points value provides the strict ordering; UNPRED => free, whereas POOR => 2pt per WOR, AV=>3pt/WOR etc.
The quality roll will put UNPRED at either bottom or top on a D6 roll.
Not sure which is suppose to apply really.
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Post by kaustic on Mar 15, 2016 20:48:34 GMT
Well, the way I read it, everytime you would need to make use of the unit's quality you would roll the dice and see where it takes you.
So for combat you would roll to see the relative quality and again for the effects for combat test afterwards. All very unpredictable but if you wanted it otherwise you would be running dwarfs.
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Post by kaustic on Mar 17, 2016 10:21:20 GMT
Looking forward to the AAR on that battle. Rory has the gift for the narrative.
Did you use any of the additional rules discussed so far : weather etc.
Any more thoughts on a campaign. I think we have two campaign rule sets to mix and match. I quite like the idea of the hex tiles , a bit eclipse like.
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Katie
Cato Would Be Proud
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Post by Katie on Mar 17, 2016 12:49:06 GMT
There's a source for campaign suitable mekkles from Ral Partha's "Empires" range.
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Post by rflowings on Mar 17, 2016 23:03:44 GMT
The Ravensholme Arms was used to loud singing, implausible boasts and enthusiastic quaffing. Not tonight.
The landlord was making his money back, sure enough. If anything, the itinerant sots and bottle-nosed regulars were drinking more heavily than he'd seen in years. But a grim silence hung over the alehouse. The only sound was the rasp of a voice forever broken by its own screams.
Kendrick Olaffsen had been a hearty young man, and he had swilled down the malts of the ice valleys as well as any of the professional drunks who now hung on his every word. When he had sworn service to Ser Ursa Blackmayne and taken up the white coat and sword of the Lords Allegiant, he had bragged of his prowess and sworn to surpass even the elf-lords of the crystal spires in his gallantry.
Now, Kendrick told a different tale.
"Prince Eldadhrien was confident. It was our job to guard the right flank and intercept anything advancing on the elvish archers in the centre. For a while it worked. The archers shot down everything coming out of the woods. The rats didn't want to fight. There were crowds of them but they bunched together. Maybe they were scared of the elves. The rats we saw looked like scrawny things, more like slaves, chained together in their ranks."
"Remember what the elvish messenger said? That the rats were mad beasts, heedless of their own lives? It wasn't true. These were nothing like the stories. They carried flags, and shields. Their insignia was illegible, but insignia it was. There was... meaning in their screeching. They wore clothes! Dyed clothes! Their swords looked forged. I do not know what has been happening in the lowland realms, but worse was to come."
"The rats began to shoot back at the elves. Not just with crossbows, but with blasting powder such as the men of the South use. They had a carronade, of all things! Ser Ursa told us to charge them - to screen Eldadhrien's infantry. The elves were speaking to him... as if in his head. Their Lord Chancellor is a sorceress. Would that Ser Ursa had ignored her cursed commands."
"Eldadhrien was determined to break the rats with cold steel and at dawn he advanced his line. The rats were getting the worse of the shooting - the elvish aim was dead on as usual and one of the dumb vermin loaded their gun with earth. The elves were merely covered with mud and dust. As you can imagine, that got their blood up."
There were one or two throaty chuckles, but Kendrick's face suddenly took on a sallow tone.
"As we swung into line with the elves, the earth started to shake. What slimy hole the rats dragged the beast from I cannot tell. Its maw was like one of the great narwhals of the coast. It bit one of Serjeant Fletcher's horses in half. Fletcher's men tried to surround the beast but it wrapped itself around another two men and burst them like grapes."
"It was one of the wyrms of the Underdark, friends. The rats have taken slaves from all the underground realms - goblins, dwarfs - even some frog-men of the lands beyond Sarnath. And now that wyrm. The elvish sorceress tried to crush it with magic, but everything failed. Eldadhrien's regiments were too slow to reach the rat line. They began to hack their way through the rats' chattels when the worm came at us and Ser Ursa led us to meet it. It devoured our men. We ran. I cannot recall how I escaped. My horse was half-dead by the time I recovered my wits. I had to eat the poor fellow myself that night."
"That was three days past. I know only that the elves failed to drive the rat army from the lowlands. They have fallen back to the Fortress of Onyx and sealed the gates behind them. I know not what Eldadhrien and his sorceress are planning. Only that none of the mountain realms are safe and our plateau offers all that the rats desire - soft earth for burrows and fresh meat for verminous feasts. Ser Ursa will urge you to swear fealty. I beg you to flee".
Kendrick fell silent, but the rasping continued. The quill-pen of a pallid, double-chinned monk, cheerfully sat in the corner with a tankard of mead, noted down every word. Kendrick fixed him with a baleful eye. Something about him was familiar. He vaguely remembered seeing the sun flash off a brass telescope... but who would be so mad as to stand by and observe a battle?
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Post by kaustic on Mar 17, 2016 23:55:51 GMT
You surpass yourself sir.
Will the Fortress of Onyx be put to the assault or will the lowlands be ravished by the verminous horde.
Who will come to the High Elves aid ? They think they are secure behind their high walls but how secure can you be when every sewer grate is a breach in your defences.
Would that the Wood Elves overcome their long and bitter animosity to their over bearing cousins.
Dark times ahead
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Katie
Cato Would Be Proud
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Post by Katie on Mar 18, 2016 19:31:28 GMT
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Post by rflowings on Mar 18, 2016 19:46:08 GMT
Aye, things are looking bleak for the Topaz Throne. I would be well up for a siege but will need some time to build the fabled fortress.
Meanwhile, the Lords Allegiant are mustering their companies for a unilateral assault on the rat holdings. I will have to get to work on the flower of boreal chivalry.
I hereby extend the hand of coalition to the elves of the woodland realm. I am keen to take the field against the rats, but we should absolutely try the weather rules. How about a four-way with wood elves, high elves, rats and more rats each contributing 1500 points?
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Post by kaustic on Mar 18, 2016 20:59:12 GMT
Scouting.
That makes it nice and clear. The Astrologer is new to me though.
What was the scouting results in the latest ?
There is still the cavenous battle , an attempt to out flank the attackers/defenders maybe.
As to the grand map, could download those map hexes and printout but they look more designed for use in sheets.
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Post by rflowings on Mar 19, 2016 10:30:41 GMT
Katie's scouting corps and my mounted division cancelled each other out, and I won the coin toss for placing terrain. I have also found that this software has a free version if we want to save on time and printing costs for a campaign map. If we generate the rudiments of the map I had it in my head to sketch out arty faction-specific versions anyway. My instinct was to go strong into the rat lairs, but I have a feeling they will be marching on my own underground holdings before long. I shall have to prepare some crystal pillars to rally round.
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Katie
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Post by Katie on Mar 19, 2016 13:57:29 GMT
Astrologers are available to Samurai, Men-at-Arms and High Elves. They have a bunch of options like owls (which give a scouting bonus), astrolabes and books which give possible scouting bonuses along with possibly omens bonuses.
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Post by kaustic on Mar 21, 2016 8:06:08 GMT
Well , just have to go back to poking about in Elven entrails for divination.
Hey squeaky, entrails say is bad bad day for elf.
Reckon that elf reckon so too.
Had a look at that programme and it looks just the ticket. Doesn't run on Android so I can't do much with it myself however.
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chad
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Han Chinese tonight...or maybe Space Goats
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Post by chad on Mar 22, 2016 13:32:05 GMT
The Wood Elves stand ready - but we happen to be owed a tree.....
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Post by rflowings on Mar 22, 2016 22:49:26 GMT
We'll build you all the trees you want, just send us some troops!
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chad
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Han Chinese tonight...or maybe Space Goats
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Post by chad on Mar 24, 2016 14:37:21 GMT
Hmm, our think our 'High' elf brethren have become somewhat detached from their roots if you think trees are built. I'm sure the results would be interesting.
Name the date, we might be there....
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