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[ATHATH]

Oh, so when I propose researching burrowing slimes, everyone ignores me, but when Tyrant Leviathan does it...

_{It's fine, I'm just trying to be comical.}

[Ardent Debater]

What if we tried combing slime and the leather armor?  Cut the hide into small pieces and use the slime to bind it to the armor. Hopefully it would retain the durability of the leather while also allowing greater flexibility. 

Good idea, what if we used slimes to add a second layer of padding to our officer's ringmail?

Oh, so when I propose researching burrowing slimes, everyone ignores me, but when Tyrant Leviathan does it...

_{It's fine, I'm just trying to be comical.}

Oh, I hadn't realized you were the first to suggest it. Sorry 'bout that. 

[Yottawhat]

Oh, so when I propose researching burrowing slimes, everyone ignores me, but when Tyrant Leviathan does it...

_{It's fine, I'm just trying to be comical.}

I voted for you...

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Yeah your idea was good. Only difference was the Slimes I have in mind have limbs. So they can be melee or star craft lurkers.

[Happerry]

I Shall Now Join This Side!

Also for my suggestion, we should upgrade the Slime Wizards so instead of just throwing sticky slime at enemies, they can throw smaller slimes that then try to eat the people they landed on. You know, sometime in a future turn.

For now though...

+1 To Revise our Leather Armor.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Also to change appearance from borrow Slimes. Calling my Slimes. " Predator" Slimes.

[Roboson]

[9] Revised Armor

For some reason you feel as if you have been frozen in time. A thick layer of dust coats you and your fellow summoners. One summoner happened to be speaking and it seems as if a spider built a nest in his mouth halfway through his word. Rather unpleasant for them. Rather stunned at this random hiccup in time, you decide not to think about it too hard, as the more you do, the more your head begins to hurt due to the incomprehensible nature of time. Vowing not to dwell on this inexplicable anomaly, you resume working on revising your armor.

After a few rather awkward attempts at fixing your boxlike armor, you manage to make it actual human shape. Its nothing particularly flashy or stylish, but it does get the job done. It no longer hinders movement or has sharp edges. The process of creating the armor is slightly simplified as well, not enough to make it any cheaper, but it does make up for the added steps required to make it actual armor instead of hard leather boxes.


I'm implementing an experimental additional phase: The Strategy Phase.

Basically during this phase you decide which units will go to each theater. Furthermore, this will be the time for you to give any orders/strategies that you'd like to use in that theater. Order rules are changing a little bit due to this. They will get two effectiveness rolls, and will take the average of the two, plus a modifier based on how reasonable I think it is (so an order like "use our archers/[inert ranged unit here] to take our supporting troops" would probably get +2 to +3 because its a simple strategy, but an order like "have our soldiers use their weapons to break shit and litter the battlefield with debris" likely would get a -1 or something like that). I'm still a little iffy on this bit, especially the orders section, but I really wanted to give the players the ability to strategize their actual combat instead of me just doing it for you. So we're gonna give it a go for a turn or two and see if you all like it, or if we should not fix-what-isn't-broken.

It is now the Strategy Phase.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Someone ke our ice dragon boss to do something would be nice.

[Yottawhat]

Have the brick slimes form up into a wall and attach leather shields to the face facing the enemies for some extra defense.  Use the moving wall as mobile cover in order to block against Vunico exploding crossbow bolts.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

I approve of the above

[Roboson]

This is what the other side set up for this phase and so if you're interested in filling this out for the strategy phase that's fine. Otherwise I'll do it for you like I normally do during the combat phase. The reasoning section is extra optional.

As far as I understand, we're supposed to be making attack plans, and deciding what troops should go where.

The Boiler Room
Cheap :
Expensive :
Very Expensive :
National effort : 

Reasoning :

The Expanse
Cheap :
Expensive :
Very Expensive :
National effort :

Reasoning :

The Mushroom caverns
Cheap :
Expensive :
Very Expensive :
National effort :

Reason:

Frozen tunnels.
Cheap :
Expensive :
Very Expensive :
National effort :

Reason:



Orders:

I removed their responses, for obvious reasons, but thats pretty on point for the sort of thing I'd be looking for. Not sure if I'm going to do this phase again however.


Also, don't forget:

Strange glowing symbols have appeared in the expanse. They are on the walls, the floor, and some even float midair. It seems some long forgotten artifact is activating in the Expanse next year. You have no idea what it means, but some of the symbols are similar to those you found in your notes.

[FallacyofUrist]

Nah, you can do it as normal. Or at least, that's my vote.

[Shadowclaw777]

The Boiler Room
Cheap : Infantry Troops+ Improvised Leather Armor, Kamikaze Wyrmlings, Slime Knights
Expensive : Dragalos, Military Officers, Flying Slimes
Very Expensive : Slime Wizards
National effort : N/A

Reasoning: Mobilize the Ice Wyrm to a more contested region. Swarms of infantry with improvised leather armor and military officers provide bulk of the forces. Slime Wizards and Kamikaze Wyrmlings provide ranged support, with the Kamikaze dragons also providing infantry clearing powers through icicle explosions. Slime Knights also bring mobility and flanking.

The Expanse
Cheap : Infantry Troops+Improvised Leather Armor, Kamikaze Wyrmlings, Brick Slimes, Slime Knights
Expensive : Dragalos, Miltary Officers, Elephant Slimes, Flying Slimes
Very Expensive : Slime Wizards
National effort : Ice Wyrm

Reasoning : The Demon Lord is a very fierce enemy, I expect them to add new demons to their arsenal. I really think we're going to need our Ice Wyrm their so we don't get overrun. Also Brick Slimes and Elephant Slimes will provide tanking for the bulk of the forces. The area is also pretty open for the Slime Knights and Flying Slimes

The Mushroom caverns
Cheap : Infantry Troops+Improvised Leather Armor, Kamikaze Wyrmlings, Brick Slimes.
Expensive : Dragalos, Military Officers, Elephant Slimes, Flying Slimes
Very Expensive : Wizard Slimes
National effort : N/A

Reason: Dragalos can still provide support here, its really a fight of numbers here. Elephant Slimes and Brick Slimes provides cover for the bulk of the infantry. Range support through skirmishes here is also needed through our slime wizards and kamikaze wyrmlings. I expect no progress made here, maybe even losing ground.

Frozen tunnels.
Cheap : Infantry Troops+Improvised Leather Armor, Kamikaze Wyrmlings.
Expensive : Military Officers, Elephant Slimes, Flying Slimes
Very Expensive : Wizard Slimes
National effort : N/A

Reasoning: Ice Wyrmlings are at home in this area. Elephant Slimes are our greatest asset here and they should be more focused in this combat zone. Also Flying Slimes are needed counteract those mechanical spiders.

Orders:
-Mobilize the Ice Wyrm Mother where the Demon Lord is, we need more contention against the scary demons their.
-Have brick slimes support Elephant Slimes against their flame bolts from their crossbows, the brick slimes can still give a minor defensive boon for the infantry as well.

Is this what your looking for in strategy phase?.

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Spoiler: Innovations (click to show/hide)

Design- Elephant Slimes Expensive.

[16+1, 11, 2!] (I only had a 20 sided die on hand when I designed the rolls for this game, so everything is in d20).

Your new elephant slime design is pretty successful. Using your other slime summoning spells as a base, you find that summoning a big slime is fairly easy (theoretically) especially after you remove the section of the spell that summons a rider for the slime like with your slime knights. However, when push comes to shove, it take a lot of power and a long time to get a slime to that big a size. You do eventually manage to make a very large slime, that after taking a significant amount of cutting damage, splits into several regular sized slimes. Like all slimes, its fairly immune to piercing and bashing weapons, but this one will split into smaller slimes once its been damaged enough. There is one flaw however, small slimes mistake the big slime for a slime king and will always try and follow it. This makes it incredibly difficult to get them to do anything that the king slime isn't doing, thus limiting the tactical advantage you can get through the use of your supporting slimes.

Leather Armor

[10-2] You decide to revise your padded cloth armor into leather armor. Never having made full leather armor before, you run into several issues along the way. At first you try just replacing the padding with leather, which doesn't go very well as finding a way to get strips of armor to stick together in a sound way isn't easy. Your first few prototypes fell apart if they took any damage at all. Then you started using the leather from your hide shields to replace the cloth. This was basically large leather squares sown together instead of layers of cloth. While this doesn't fall apart when hit, it is incredibly stiff and uncomfortable. The inflexibility of the armor, which is much more durable than your padded armor, is so unpleasant to wear that it hurts the morale of all who wear it.

Design: Ice Wyrmlings

[16+2, 18, 1!] You have an incredible breakthrough this year as you researched how to make smaller ice wyrmlings. You found that the summoning spell could essentially be scaled down in the same way that you scaled up the slime spell to get elephant slimes. A little tinkering with the ice breath and you manage to make it a liquid instead of a frosty breath attack. The liquid freezes a few seconds after being exposed to air, often forming long icicles shaped projectiles than can be shot a moderate range (although not nearly as far as an archer). They are great midranged attack units, and are incredibly easy to create large numbers of them (inexpensive). However, it seems there is a terrible terrible flaw in the spell design. After firing one or two shots of icicles, the creature finds itself unable to shoot anymore. Whats worse, the creature begins to panic and repeatedly try to shoot ice. Unable to release the liquid from its body, the entire wyrmling freezes from the inside out in a horrifyingly painful and incredibly difficult to watch manner. Whats more after the wyrmling freezes almost completely, the force building up inside its body causes it to explode in a hail of icy shrapnel. This made studying what went wrong with the spell incredibly difficult, and also led to the death of several mages who were trying to examine the body as it froze.

Revision Kamikaze Frost Wyrmling

[20!-0]
(Dear Goria, you are the luckiest nation that ever lived. Congrats on your natural 20). When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you wyrmlings that explode, make Vunico-ade. You make sure your wrymlings hate Vunico with all their heart an soul, and just let them do their thing. With a few really lucky tweaks to their summoning spell, you make little tiny dragons that charge into the enemy ranks, shooting globs of freezing liquid as they charge. Then they suddenly freeze, and explode only a few moments later. They seem... happy. The little monsters are filled with great pride in their ability to die for their new country. Its actually rather disturbing, the zeal these buggers have. They have no qualms with dying, and seem to think that the more enemies they bring down with them, the better their short lives have been. Some of your men are inspired by their devotion, others are flabbergasted, and others are saddened by the little guys who love their country so much in their short lives, and think its a terrible shame they have to die so young. In their short lives, these guys love Goria more than any human possibly could across their entire lifetime. Truly these little guys are the most patriotic (and suicidal) monsters to ever live.

Design Phase - Brick Slimes

[4, 17, 5] When you first told your King that you wanted to make bricks out of little slime monsters, he thought magic had driven you mad. Only after a long explanation of your plan, with visual aids and diagrams, did the king decided that the idea wasn't as crazy as it sounds originally. With a lot of effort, you manage to find a way to summon slimes that naturally take the shape of a box (as opposed to the teardrop shape they naturally take). They are the same size as your regular slimes (so about a 2.5 ft square), but they are not any harder than normal slimes. They are capable of stacking together to form walls of slime, and are incredibly sticky on all sides except the bottom, so that they can form walls and stick to things. This has the unfortunate side effect of making them stick to basically everything before they get to their intended wall formation. One of your apprentice wizards accidentally got caught on one of the slimes, and while you were able to remove him, he will never be the same.

[9] Revised Armor
After a few rather awkward attempts at fixing your boxlike armor, you manage to make it actual human shape. Its nothing particularly flashy or stylish, but it does get the job done. It no longer hinders movement or has sharp edges. The process of creating the armor is slightly simplified as well, not enough to make it any cheaper, but it does make up for the added steps required to make it actual armor instead of hard leather boxes.

Spoiler: Gorian Starting Equipment (click to show/hide)

War sickle: A curved sickle, previously used in the fields. Inexpensive. Requires little training.

Atlatl: A small device used to launch darts over long distances. Deadly, but requires a lot of training. Expensive.

Padded armor: Cloth armor made out of layers of dragalo wool and reinforced with leather. Not incredibly durable, but keeps the elements at bay. Inexpensive.

Hide shield: A shield made out of leather. Inexpensive.

Dragalo: A large animal that has the upper body of a buffalo and the lower body of a dragon. Native to the southern half of Relt. Its large curved horns are typically used to headbutt other dragalo, but are equally as capable of ramming Vunicians. Breathes fire. Expensive.

Ring mail: Officer armor. A set of interlocking metal rings in the shape of a long shirt.  Expensive.

Falcata: A really dangerous-looking single-edged sword with a heavy forward-curving, i.e. concave blade. Officer weapon. Expensive.

Summoning Circle: A magical device located at the entrance to your dungeon (from your country). Allows you to summon creatures to aid in the war effort.

Spoiler: Starting Bosses and Minions (click to show/hide)

Each country starts with one boss monster and one set of minions. Each player gets one vote for each of these. Note: Both summoning circles can summon anything you design, this is just what they were set to when you found them (and thus what you start with).
Slime Summoning Circle:
Slime knight: Small humanoid riding on a teardrop shaped slime. Surprisingly dangerous. Inexpensive.
Flying slime: Jellyfish like slime with wings. Its tentacles have a powerful sting. Expensive.   
Wizard Slime: These slimes shoot balls of slime at the enemy. It hurts more than you think, and it slows down enemies. Very expensive.
Ice wyrm: A relative to the true dragon, used to cold, breathes an icy breath. National effort.