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With a heavy heart you finally laid your father to rest, after almost a decade of stagnation caused by his slow descent to madness,
Constantly paranoid your father dismissed all his advisors, and took to staying in his chambers, only leaving to perform the most critical
state functions, effectively leaving the government paralyzed even as the southern greenskins grow ever bolder and to the north there are rumors of
the lizardmen falling under the rule of a mighty dragon, possibly even an ancient elder dragon if there is any truth the rumors...
The loss of several outposts both on the surface and in the underdark is the cause for much concern among our people, trade and contact with the outside world has dropped
off considerably as well, with only the bravest merchants choosing to risk leaving the mountain fortress to trade with the human tribals to the east or the elven colonies to our west.
Our allies also have called for aid several times, but their calls have been ignored due to your father's condition.
Today is the day of your coronation, as King under the Mountain, who are you and what clan do you belong to?
Logan Ironbeard- The Ironbeards have stood as steadfast defenders of the dwarven realm as well traders, historically pursuing expansion to found new settlements and locate new
ore deposits, you are no exception as you and your sibling have strongly advocated reestablishing ties with our allies and recapturing the outer settlements
- Better relations with allies
- Your army and society will be more geared towards trade, expansion and exploration
Olaf Bloodaxe- The Bloodaxe clan have always been widely considered the greatest warriors of our kingdom and indeed all over the continent for the dicipline and ferocity, in times of old they
would reave and raid the enemies of the Dwarven people(they consider everyone to be enemies of the dwarven people). You are no exception being a skilled warrior, leading several illegal excursions under your
ailing father's nose, by blood and steel you will bring our people to glory
- Your warriors are without peer, though small in number
- Your army and society will be geared towards endless war
Jurgen Blacksteel- The Blacksteels have a long history of producing great tinkerers and even the rare dwarven mages, their constant drive to improve and innovate has given our people against our competitors both
commercially and militarily. They prefer peaceful isolation, only leaving their mountain fortress to fight the most pressing threats. Like your ancestors before you, you have already improved the standard crossbow design, carrying
a custom model with you.
- Your innovations and technology are superior to everyone in the area
- Your army and society will be geared towards isolationism and technological/magic research
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>>470217
>Logan Ironbeard- The Ironbeards have stood as steadfast defenders of the dwarven realm as well traders, historically pursuing expansion to found new settlements and locate new
>ore deposits, you are no exception as you and your sibling have strongly advocated reestablishing ties with our allies and recapturing the outer settlements
>- Better relations with allies
>- Your army and society will be more geared towards trade, expansion and exploration
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>>470217
Logan Ironbeard- The Ironbeards have stood as steadfast defenders of the dwarven realm as well traders, historically pursuing expansion to found new settlements and locate new
ore deposits, you are no exception as you and your sibling have strongly advocated reestablishing ties with our allies and recapturing the outer settlements
- Better relations with allies
- Your army and society will be more geared towards trade, expansion and exploration
My vote for this too, even though all of them are equally interesting.
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>>470325
>>470285
Logan Ironbeard is your choice.
The Black shield is the relic of the Ironbeard family, taken from an ancient sorcerer thousands of years ago, it is a large unbreakable tower shield made of strange, lightweight black metal. It also protects the user from magic of all types, including friendly spells
In addition your sibling, while second in line to the throne has agreed to stay in the fortress and help you rule over our people
Hakon- Hakon never quite grew out of the wanderlust phase of his youth, despite the dangers, either going out alone or with small parties exploring the world. He has made friends all over the continent and has gained some fame and a
small personal fortune as an adventurer
Olga- Despite her gender Olga was always a beligerent one, good with a blade and crossbow she is skilled at leading troops in war and an expert at ambushes and defensive combat. She has slain many greenskins and often keeps their skulls as trophies in
royal trophy room
Ivar- Going against your families best wishes, Ivar ran off to the Elven Empire as a youth, attending the finest Mage Academy, taking advantage of his position as the son of a major head of state to garner favorabe treatment. He returned several years ago and wishes
to use his skill with stone and flame to help protect and lead our people
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>>470415
>Ivar- Going against your families best wishes, Ivar ran off to the Elven Empire as a youth, attending the finest Mage Academy, taking advantage of his position as the son of a major head of state to garner favorabe treatment. He returned several years ago and wishes
>to use his skill with stone and flame to help protect and lead our people
Always good to have some magic and enchantments.
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>>470415
>Ivar- Going against your families best wishes, Ivar ran off to the Elven Empire as a youth, attending the finest Mage Academy, taking advantage of his position as the son of a major head of state to garner favorabe treatment. He returned several years ago and wishes
to use his skill with stone and flame to help protect and lead our people
Olga sounds badass, but if our sibling will be staying in the fortress (atleast for now), then I'd rather have some magic backup.
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>>470554
>A. Inspect the troops and defenses
Always good to keep them at tip top shape.
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>>470554
>A. Inspect the troops and defenses
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>>470554
A
But B should be our next path
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>>470554
A. Inspect the troops and defenses
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>>470581
>>470574
>>470559
With much pomp and ceremony, you don your crown and walk to the training ground, where the troops stand in parade formation. As you reach the balcony overlooking the grounds, their commander, Captain Eirik Stonehand, turns to salute you, followed by the rest of the army. The men look crisp and ordered with their freshly polished armor and weapons, but you know they are unblooded and have not yet faced the enemies of the Dwarven people.
You go on to watch several training exercises and war games before inspecting the rest of the battlements and tunnel entrances, deeming them secure, as they had been well taken care of, even during the depths of your fathers madness.
As you return to the throne room for even more ceremony, an alarm is raised as a lone rider approaches the western gate. He calls out in heavily accented dwarvish, his way of speaking instantly outing him as an elf.
What shall we do?
A. Welcome and treat him as an honored guest
B. Deny him entry, we do not break bread with knife ears
C. Allow him in, but place him under heavy guard until we know for sure this is not a clever ruse by our enemies
D. Other(write-in)
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A. Welcome and treat him as an honored guest
A knife-ear he may be, but he hasnt done anything yet.
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>>470658
>A. Welcome and treat him as an honored guest
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>>470658
A. Welcome and treat him as an honored guest
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>>470702
>>470700
>>470679
Veras Angelos, as he introduces himself to you, heir to the green isles and Captain of the white guard, sits down in the great feasting hall, the mood is joyous as he comes, hearing of your coronation bearing a magic dagger of the finest Elven make and a treaty of friendship. Tankards of ale are broken out and a fine meal made from boar hunted from the mountainside that very morning encrusted with the finest herbs around.
As the evening goes on, you learn that the Elves are facing both enemies in their homeland as well as the Orcs in their colonies near our lands. They claim that while they can defend their lands, they lack the strength to launch an expedition into the orc lands and shatter them, as was done in ages past.
They wish for us to join with them in this expedition and destroy the greenskin threat.
As the night wears on, you can tell he has clearly overserved himself on the Dwarven Ale, and have him escorted to his chambers.
Meanwhile you think on his offer...
A. Agree to join the expedition
B. Only agree to the treaty for now
C. Tear up the treaty and throw the filthy knife ear out
D. Other(write-in)
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>>470754
>B. Only agree to the treaty for now
Firstmost see if we can defend ourselves.
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>A. Agree to join the expedition
this may turn into a good thing. we should help for now. They at least seem friendly enough, willing to bury the hatchet.
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>>470754
>A. Agree to join the expedition
Our dwarfs need training in a real battle and those orcs will be threat to us too if we let the grow, best to work together.
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>>470879
>>470781
You wake up in the morning and summon the Elf to the throne room to officially accept the treaty and lend support to the expedition. Your servants find him meditating in his room.... typical knife ear....
He is visibly pleased with your choice and requests to stay a few days to rest and experience dwarven life before returning home.
He also requests you attend a sparring session with him in the training grounds.
Before you decide to spar with him, more pressing matters of state present themselves...
A. Call for a meeting of the clans
B. Send a party east to the Human tribals
C. Send a scouting party south, to help plan the expedition against the greenskins
D. Other(write-in)
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>C. Send a scouting party south, to help plan the expedition against the greenskins
>B. Send a party east to the Human tribals
See if the pinkskins want in on the fight too. We may able to use some of them as cannon fodder.
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>>470959
>A. Call for a meeting of the clans
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>>470959
>A. Call for a meeting of the clans
>C. Send a scouting party south, to help plan the expedition against the greenskins
Of course nothing would stop us from doing all 3.
Going to sleep have a good questing.
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>>470968
>>470971
>>471092
You have a party head south, while another heads east... they will be back in a few weeks.
In the meantime the clans are called to order. The Bloodaxes are enraged about our alliance with the Elves and want to gut their emissary and send them back his entrails...
The Blacksteels are concerned about us sending so much of our strength south, they believe it is foolish to take such risks and suspect an Elven ruse
They both are causing trouble and refuse to commit their resources to the southern campaign, unfortunately at this point we can only accomodate one,
A. Acommodate the Bloodaxe clan by allowing them to launch their own raid on the lizards, their preferred foe
B. Accomodate the Blacksteels by banning selected foreign goods from our markets
C. Other(write-in)
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>>471189
B. Accomodate the Blacksteels by banning selected foreign goods from our markets
They seem a bit more chill to work with, maybe theyll just want to ban some humie goods.
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>>471189
>C. Raise the taxes on certain foreign goods
I don't want to limit our trade just to make some of them happy at much.
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>>471189
A: Their blood lust can be sated somehow.
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If there's no more voting then I suggest a roll.
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>>471189
>A. Acommodate the Bloodaxe clan by allowing them to launch their own raid on the lizards, their preferred foe
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Let them raid, we'll be needing a lot of that in times to come
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>>471416
>>471319
You allow the Bloodaxes their raid, in exchange for their support for the upcoming campaign, a great victory will greatly bolster your opinion in the public eye and will make ensuring future clan cooperation much easier.
You party returns from the east with news from the human lands, things are much the same with tribes fighting each other, proving once more that mankind is its own worst enemy.
The human chiefdoms are vying for our support in their internal wars and have sent our party back with several gifts including slaves, trinkets and the blessings of the human gods
Meanwhile our scouts to the south report a massive orc horde has formed around a charismatic young warlord. who seemingly is immortal. There are rumors of his consorting with dark gods.....
What's our next move? (write-in)
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>>471517
Get to training the Boys for the fight to come, we will need a solid force (not that we didn't before) to fight a Warboss. Try recruiting too.
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>>471522
+1
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>>471522
I feel like we should also scout out smaller settlements and establish a base trade network to them, make traveling slightly easier.
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I'll support both, if we can do two. The military option if we can't
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>>471522
>>471527
>>471558
>>471584
You have the army institute a harsher training regimen for the troops for next few weeks before the campaign, in the meantime you recruit another 500 men for the Royal Army, bringing our numbers up to 3000 men, even though 500 are on permanent duty as guards for our Mountain Fortress.
In addition a small force is sent out to reclaim an abandoned southern outpost we can use to launch the expedition to the south.
A few weeks pass and the sound of Elvish warhorns can be heard outside the gate. You and your honor guard move to the ramparts to see 1000 Elven warriors standing in perfect formation outside our gates.
They stay overnight but the army moves at dawn, with 3500 men moving together, we camp the first night at our outpost, however our scouts report the orc horde nearby, only a days march away.
Several plans are proposed, the first by the Elves involves using a narrow mountain pass to ambush and trap the greenskins.
One of our officers offers to play the role of a bait patrol leading the orcs back to our outpost, which is on high ground and highly defensible.
The king is also open to other plans..
A. Attempt the ambush
B. Hold fast at the outpost
C. Other(write-in)
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A: Place Elven archers along the ridge of the mountain while Dwarven Honor Guard holds at opening, retreat inward, create small gap in center flank, overwhelm, repeat, profit.
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A. Attempt the ambush
Keep some of the force ready for a countercharge though, the Warboss is supposedly smart. He may see the ambush coming and we should have a second plan in place, which could be just holding ground with our more elite troops at the camp.
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>>471624
>A. Attempt the ambush
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>>471641
He may be smart, Orcs in general are not, they get all bloodlusty.
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>>471624
>A. Attempt the ambush
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>>471641
Ambush
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>>471677
>>471662
>>471646
>>471645
>>471641
>>471639
You have chosen the ambush
Elven archers ring the high ridge around the pass while elite Dwarven infantry hold the entrance. We also keep a large number of infantry a few miles back in reserve to react to unexpected changes in the plan...
Please roll a d100+10(due to training bonus and the plan)
Ill take the average of the first 3 rolls
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Rolled 1 + 10 (1d100 + 10)
>>471695
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Rolled 11 + 10 (1d100 + 10)
>>471695
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Rolled 33 + 10 (1d100 + 10)
>>471695
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>>471702
>>471701
>>471700
average of 25 a failure
The warlord is smarter than you expect, splitting his force into several groups, the group that travelled through the pass is quickly destroyed while 2 others converge on our reserve camp. Our reserve infantry put up a good fight, but are forced to withdraw after taking heavy casualties. Meanwhile the ambush force is virtually untouched, with a handful of casualties in the blocking infantry.
If the ambush force does'nt move soon they will be surrounded and potentially overrun.
What should we do?
A. Pull the ambush force back
B. Push forward into orc lands
C. Other(write-in)
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>>471772
Pull back. Spin this as the knife-ears' fault.
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>>471772
Actually I think im gonna stop here for the night, Ill keep going this tomorrow if you guys want
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B: The Orc Warlord wouldn't except a bunch of pointy ears to do damage to his lands when he thinks he's winning, he may be smart, but an Orc on a win streak gets a little hot in the pants and makes mistakes.
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>>471772
B. Push forward into orc lands
Death or Glory!
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>>471772
B. Push forward into orc lands
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>>472825
>>472823
>>472822
You have chosen to push forward.
The troops find one of the higher paths through the mountains and form up, quick marching south.
A group of elven rangers moves ahead of the column searching for threats and opportunities.
Finally the rangers come across an orc camp, definitely in their rear area. It seems to be filled with provisions as well as women and children
Whats our next move?
A. Attack the camp and destroy the supplies
B. Keep moving for another target to strike
C. Other(write-in)
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>C: Roll in with the archers, pick off the guards, scare the shit out of the women and children (but not kill them) and TAKE provisions. A well fed army is better than a large army.
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>>472910
>A. Attack the camp and destroy the supplies that we can't take with us.
What is way of orcs during the war? So they kill everyone they can, take slaves or leave civilians alone?
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>>472910
>A. Attack the camp and destroy the supplies
this, very quickly then
>B. Keep moving for another target to strike
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>>472914
scare the shit out of the women and children (but not kill them)
The Greenskin wouldn't hesitate to slaughter the lot of us, given the chance. This is a war of annihilation, we need to rid the world of the Ork.
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>>472987
fuck that. Do you want to be seen as genocidal maniacs out of petty revenge? Many examples in irl history show that isn't the best course of method to be seen as benevolent....or at least not be seen as awful beings.
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>>472984
>>472978
The army rushes into the camp under cover of darkness taking all provisions needing and setting fire to the rest, the also set fire to the rest of the camp.
Resistance is light as the few orc warriors are easily cut down and several women and children who take up arms are quickly put down, after a few minutes of brutal fighting our men quietly melt back into the night....
After another day of marching south the lands begins to open up into the southern wastes, the homeland of the orcs. Fortunate we looted the enemy supplies as foraging for an army of any size in the wastes is borderline impossible.
Meanwhile back at our fortress, the main orc army has arrived in force, almost 6000 orcs are a part of a siege according to our sentries best guesses.
The other part of our army, mostly made up of our greenest troops and oldest warriors was able to fall back into the fortress and we estimate we have around 2000 men equipped and ready to fight. In addition in response to the siege the Bloodaxe and Blacksteel clans have released part of their clan armies to the cities defense, adding another 1000 men from each clan to our numbers bringing our forces up to around 4000 effectives.
Whats our next move?(this is a write in)
Also guys I will be answering intermittently throughout the day so dont be alarmed if I take an hour or two between posts. I will be back home for more steady posting around 5pm eastern time tonight
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>>473314
Find information about the possible targets for our attacking army.
Study maps, talk with elves and/or sent scouts.
Our sibling should prepare to the siege the best he can. Food, ammo, spells ect.
Does Ivar or other dwarf mages have anything more serious than normal battle magic in their disposal?
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>>473663
Our fortress has never been breached, also both Logan and Ivar are still at the Dwarf fortress.
Our forces in the field are led by Captain Eirik Stonehand, while the Elves are led by a Senior Captain of the White Guard, a force generally considered to be their elite troops.
The terrain around the fortress is mountainous and there are several small postern gates allowing for ambush of a sieging force.
We also have a few heavy ballistas in storage that can be mounted atop the battlements and can harrass enemy troops and counter enemy siege weapons.
Ivar is our only mage, but he is capable of powerful close range fire magic, and also of lobbing stones and erecting walls using earth magic
>>473663
>>473550
Eirik and the Elven commander pore over maps of the waste in the command tent, unfortunately the maps are very old and do not account for current orcish positions.
We believe we are a few days march from the main orc settlement to the south, we are also a weeks march from our own fortress now.
We believe most of the orc strength is involved in the siege, leaving their main city virtually unprotected
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>>473840
>>473314
well i suggest.
a) have defenses prepared and siege equipment deployed.
b) see if we can have our courtly mage raise a secondary set of rough stone walls just beyond our current ones. thus they'd have to breached through both. hed have to work like a machine though.
c) send 500 elves back to harass and pester the siege forces of the orcs, so that every day they're numbers dwindle slowly and there supplies run low. the elf rangers would do well, appearing at range, unleashing a few volleys then out running the pursuing forces. repeat.
d) send out remaining scouts and approach orc capital.
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>>473880
oh! and have the defending dwarves try to construct some standard trebuchets. with there superior engineering and materials they'd be bound to out range anything the orcs can build. and without siege equipment the orcs will be in a bad way.
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>>473880
>>473904
500 Elves are sent back to defend the fortress while our remaining 1500 men press on to the enemy capital
Meanwhile back at the fortress, the old ballistae are placed on the battlements after almost a century of storage and Ivar has erected a small outer wall, harrying attackers and preventing easy approach to our main defenses.
The ballistae begin firing volley after volley into the orcish siege camp, their massive bolts reaping a terrible harvest...
Our scouts approach Gul' Durak, the main settlemment of the orcish people, its simple ditch and spike defenses providing little proof against a determined assault
From a distance the town appears sleepy and minimally defended
What's our next move?(this is a write-in)
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>>475065
Send our steal thirst scouts forward to infiltrate the outer defenses of guldurak . Spears defenseless, is not actually defenseless. Find what defenses they DO have and report on them. Then assemble the troops in full and take the city. FYI, he had 3500 on setting out....I sent 500 back.....wouldn't That a full 3000?
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