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[Lillipad]

words

And this is, of course, under the assumption that the battle is known about. It could take even longer if the fight isn't known about.

hour-long turns are just too long for combat. Hard to know where to split the difference.

Depending on how the fight is handled, an hour long fight would be fairly reasonable. If the prince guy didn't care about damaging Bucket's ship or the civilians/workers, he'd probably have just attacked at the first sign of hostilities and blown everything to bits. A fight between allied forces can take an incredibly long time depending on the mindset each side has.

[agertor]

Have the scouts come home, resume resource gathering of trees and fish. Attempt to try and obtain the wheat-like plant and see if it is edible/farmable.

Character Sheet

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Name: Agertor Archmagus

Gender/Age: 22

Appearance: A young black-haired man with quite the shadow for a beard. He looks like he doesn't sleep too much and his brown eyes look hazed at times. Wearing a black leather jacket, red t-shirt, jeans and a red bandana he wears on his head, he almost looks like a pirate.

Background (optional but helpful): A young revolutionary, his inspiring words had brought many people together before. He works for the people almost all the time and as a result gets little sleep. Commonly declaring himself as a people's champion, he constantly helps those in need in order to inspire and create unity.

Skills : Leadership, Persuasion, Rallying, Stealth

Natural Magic : Life

Flagship name: Liberty's Savior
Flagship type: protection, protection

Ships:

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14 civilian ships
8 scouts
4 cruisers
4 supply ships
3 seeders, which can enact large scale terraforming to make the land suitable for farming, or mass plant seeds. Holds 300 seeds each
3 lumber clippers, which can construct buildings. Holds 300 building materials.
2 strafers
2 ping dynamos
1 steamer, with 100 fuel
1 arcani, with ten mages

Base "New Beginning":

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Civilians: 3500
Supplies: 2800

(I didn't like emo Ice cube, so I brought out Sassy Parrot)

[LordBucket]

I think we're just waiting on Evil Marahadja/Jamnan Tatarev to redo his turn submission.

Here are turns for everyone else:
Agertor Archmagus
Sergej Genja
Gregorin Atmos
Salavev De Ravenov
Azalyn Kementari
Argus Kaledos
Leonard Fallswood
Entren Armeni

There is a turn listed for Jamnan Tatarev here, but everyone seems to agree that it's invalid.

Evil Marahadja, care to resubmit a turn?

[Skyrunner]

Actually, it's because I have some tests tomorrow. I usually would just omit any unsubmitted turns normally, usually a day per update.

[Evil Marahadja]

Well, just skip my turn for the round then. Don΄t have much to do but wait for my lumberers to finish anyway.

[Haspen]

Actually, it's because I have some tests tomorrow.

Good luck on your tests, then :3

[Skyrunner]

Turn 0.4, 4 hours after the exodus.

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Due to slight laziness, no coordinates today.
The small scale map, out of spoilers, will have the river & basic notation of units soon. Maybe by next update.


Entren

You send the scouts a-scouting.
The main fleet first lowers wooden plank to check the acidity of the grass - it is not. It then lands. The clippers start constructing cabins, while the seeders start to create farmland. The civilians are set to pitch tents.

[3 clippers - 3 cabins, 1 turn
3 seeders - 3 plots, 1 turn]

Your flagship and the arcani return to the fleet, and are about two map-squares away from it.

Leonard

The fleet heads southwards. It seems that the hills, or at least some of them, are acidic, according to one of the other fleets.

Argus

Your fleet continues its current vector. The water slowly opens itself up, revealing a vast amount of choppy, churning, wave-filled ocean or sea.

Azalyn

Each of your combat-ready ships fire.

4 cruisers:

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[16_roll + 5_stats + 0_size] vs [4 + 8 + 4] - damaged¹
[9 + 5 + 0] vs [6 + 8 + 4]
[9 + 5 + 0] vs [13 + 8 + 4]
[10 + 5 + 0] vs [3 + 8 + 4]

8 scouts:

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[1 + 5 + 0] vs [16 + 8 + 8]
[11 + 5 + 0] vs [17 + 8 + 8]
[20->7 + 5 + 0] vs [9 + 8 + 8] - damaged²
[4 + 5 + 0] vs [9 + 8 + 8]

[4 + 5 + 0] vs [13 + 8 + 8]
[19 + 5 + 0] vs [20->9 + 8 + 8]
[10 + 5 + 0] vs [8 + 8 + 8]
[13 + 5 + 0] vs [5 + 8 + 8]

2 strafers:

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[8 + 10 + 0] vs [18 + 8 + 4]
[19 + 10 + 0] vs [2 + 8 + 4] - damaged³

Imperial ship -> cruiser
[12 + 8 + 4] vs [3 + 5 + 0] - damaged.


You surprise the imperial ship's passengers by firing unexpectedly. Blooms of fire erupt on the imperial flagship's hull, while many other cannons simply skid off the hull or miss entirely. One of the scouts managed to hit a structural weakness in the thing and dealt critical damage, compromising a lot of the ship's integrity. The imperial ship, while inhibited, returns fire and half-damages a cruiser.

The artillerymen inform you that they can shoot either grapeshot (to kill the sailors) or chainshot (to destroy the sails) in the next hour, or continue with regular shot.

The enraged high noble contacts you directly this time, instead of the writing last time, and demands to know what you are daring to do against the Heavenly Lord's ship, his son, and his nobles.

Meanwhile, the construction clippers are sent to the ground to build a drydocks (though all airship docks are dry, it is a term left over from the age of nautical sail). All three concentrate on building the docks. You are not able to spare a medical ship, due to the possibility of being attacked and destroyed by the menacing imperial ship.

[3 clippers - drydocks. Done in 1 turn]

Salavev

The two cruisers and two scouts break off from the fleet and fly ahead. The watchman report the sound of cannonfire from the north-east.

The river slowly becomes less wide, and curves off to the south-west.
Gregorin

You head north, and the scouts spread out a bit more. You see the hint of the sea to the north; the river loops around and heads towards the south-west, and there is some grey matter ahead.

Do you have any specific experiments for you and your mages to conduct?

Sergej

You land and create a temporary base. [3 seeders work on a farm plot - .3 turns to completion]
[1 clipper heads to lumber. Completion in .5 turns.]

One cruiser is sent out and plops a plank every one hundred feet. It quickly returns and tells you that as soon as the tall grass distinctive to the plains end, the acid starts. The people on the ship have noted that there seems to be a vine-like plant, reddish-purple with green leaves, that only live on the hill and not on the plain.

Argetor

The scouts obtain some of the wheat-plant on the way home.

On closer look, it has a flattened, thin, and yellow structure that is composed of elongated hexagons. It smells like wheat.

How will you test the edibility?

Jamnan
You hear the resounding roar of cannons trading fire to the east, over the river. The imperial ship and Azalyn's red fleet are fighting. As you watch, the imperial ship takes severe damage and dishes out less wounding than it took.

Would you have prepared the fleet to intervene? If so, you can move and enter the fray next turn.

[EagleV]

(I actually meant to build a base about 15 tiles north - but this'll do)

"Hills don't seem to end for now. Not necesarry to keep looking. Let northernmost scouts explore north of settlement. The others, try to gather some of the vine plant. No closer than one meter above ground at all times."
"Seeders can get much more done than that one plot, it seems. Make it three. When lumbership returns with lumber, research properties of wood, especially strength."

[Sinpwn]

Gregorin Atmos' fleet follows the coast, heading over the grey matter.
Mages investigate any changes in the behavior of raised corpses, metal grafted to flesh, flesh grafted to metal, anomalies in the function of techno-magical devices and the effectiveness of general cantrips.

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Fleet
14 civilian ships (3500/3500 civillians)
8 scouts
4 cruisers
4 supply ships (2800/2800 supplies)
3 seeders (300/300 seeds)
3 lumber clippers (300/300 building material)
2 strafers
2 ping dynamos
1 steamer (100 fuel)
1 arcani (10 mages)
Apathy's Abearance
3 Speed
3 short range
5 long range
8 protection

[LordBucket]

Note: Edits to correct misunderstandings cleared up in subsequent posts

The enraged high noble contacts you directly this time, instead of the writing last time, and demands
to know what you are daring to do against the Heavenly Lord's ship, his son, and his nobles.

:

Spoiler: going to have to change this since apparently I wasn't talking to who I thought I was (click to show/hide)

 We're shooting at you, Arty. And you've returned fire. This is what we call "having a battle." If you'd paid more attention during your father's reign instead of constantly primping in the mirror and strutting around the court like a peacock....you'd know this already. But you never paid much attention to the war and conquest your father ordered. Or your grandfather. You never paid much attention to anything, and that's why the captain of your vessel is on the bridge returning our fire while you're probably on a couch somewhere eating grapes, asking me on a private channel what's going on.

You're going to die today, Arty. Your family's reign is over. Make peace with it. Your father already did. That's why he stayed on Apollyon. You should have too.

I'll make you a deal though. You're going to die no matter what, but you can at least die with dignity and the sailors on board your ship need not join you. Surrender yourself and your ship to me, broadcast to the 8 fleets that the empire holds no authority here, and I'll be content with merely the heads of you and your family. I'll give you a clean death and I'll allow your men to live.

It's a good offer. Can't promise it will be available much longer though. If you live long enough for us to have another conversation after this one, I'll probably expect a lot more from the exchange. I recommend you signal your surrender before the stakes get any higher. You know me, Arty. I'm required reading in your schools, if you actually attended them. You've read about my conquests in your father's and grandfather's navies, and you know what I've done in your name to your conquered foes. For almost 200 years I've been an instrument of death and destruction for your family, and now it's time to reap what you've sowed. It's time to pay the piper. I am death and I demand my toll.

Surrender, Arty. Surrender yourself and your ship...before my price gets any higher.

[16roll + 5stats + 0size] vs [4 + 8 + 4] - damaged1
[20->7 + 5 + 0] vs [9 + 8 + 8] - damaged2
[12 + 8 + 4] vs [3 + 5 + 0] - damaged.

So...

 * We can only fire one volley per turn
 * combat rolls are d20
 * cruisers, scouts and strafers are all the same size
 * Cruisers and scouts have the same combat stats: +5. Strafers have +10.
 * the imperial flagship has +8 stats and +4 size bonus
 * A natural 20 gives a reroll that is added to the total
 * A ship can take considerable damage with no effect on its combat rolls. Even after taking 6 3 points of damage, the imperial flagship still had the full +8 stat bonus on its counterattack
* Our own personal flagships are apparently not combat ships?

Questions:
 * What's the difference between scouts and cruisers? They appear to have both the same stats and size
 * I notice that the stats bonus of my cruiser is the same whether on offense or defense. So...my flagship doesn't provide an area effect bonus? The protection bonus applies only to itself? If so, then...
  a) How come my flagship didn't fire?
  b) What's the difference between the protection and military perks?
  c) Flagships don't do anything? My ship has the protection specialization, and I specified to reduce incoming fire, but the stats for my cruiser were the same whether attacking or defending, so my ship wasn't providing any kind of protection bonus. They apparently can't attack and they don't modify combat values of other ships?

 * How is damage handled? If my interpretation is correct, I delivered 6 points of damage to the flagship 3 points, which was listed cumulatively for each additional hit rather than listing damage for each hit
  a) How much damage can ships take?
  b) Do ships have a single hp value, or separate values for different target areas?

[16roll + 5stats + 0size] vs [4 + 8 + 4] - damaged1
[20->7 + 5 + 0] vs [9 + 8 + 8] - damaged2
[19 + 10 + 0] vs [2 + 8 + 4] - damaged3
[12 + 8 + 4] vs [3 + 5 + 0] - damaged.

So then...

 * Quantity of damage is not dependant on difference of combat rolls. Scoring 15 higher than an opponent delivers no more damage than scoring one point higher.
* d is different from d1 Ships do one point of damage per successful hit regardless of size or class
* A natural 20 either adds one point of damage, or doubles damage
* d is presumably one point of damage, d1 is two points, d2 is three points, etc.
* The imperial flagship has a base damage of 1, scouts and cruisers both have a base damage of 2 and strafers have a base damage of 3?
 * The imperial flagship took not 6 but 9 points 3 points in total of damage?

grapeshot (to kill the sailors)
chainshot (to destroy the sails)
regular shot

My goal is to disable the ship if possible and destroy it if not. What effect will destroying the sails have? I would guess it would simply prevent it from moving, but the cannons would still be intact and it would still be able to fire. And the sailors would all still be alive if they decide to attempt to repell a boarding action. Taking out the sails doesn't disable the ship, it just stops it from moving, yes? Is takingout the guns an option? What effect does the regular shot have, just reduces the hp total without disabling systems? What happens if the ships hp is reduced to zero? Does it lose the ability to move and fire, or does it fall from the sky and shatter on the ground below? For that matter, does destroying the hull have any effect other than breaking the ship apart? Are the ships enchanted to remain airborne even if reduced to pieces, or does the magic fail after the structure takes sufficient damage?

How does this work?

I'd like to disable the ship without destroying it, but from the options I've been given I would guess that killing the sailors is the only way to do that. Is that accurate?

[LordBucket]

Jamnan

Would you have prepared the fleet to intervene? If so, you can move and enter the fray next turn.

: Captain Malokov, I am presently engaged in battle with the imperial flagship. The battle goes well, and I do not appear to require any immediate assistance. However, if any ships from the other 7 fleets attempt to join the battle, you are to move immediately to my position to assist.

You're closer to my position than any other fleet commander. You could be here before they arrive.

[Skyrunner]

The flagship has only taken 3 damage. Notice the sup tags. It was damaged once, twice, then three times.

The protection specialization gives a bonus to your own ship's protection, and is not an area effect.

Military effect gives a +5 to short-range attacks.

Regular shot breaks the ship up.

Destroying a ship makes it crash.

Ripping up sails makes it unable to move.

Killing the crew makes it open for salvage or boarding.

Single HP value.

Flagships can fire. I assumed you were using the mages on your ship to try and cast a shield spell thing.

Uh...the son has never contacted you directly. It's the high noble whatshisname that is doing all the talking. For all you know, the emperor's son might not even be on the ship, and the noble lying through his teeth.

[IronyOwl]

Salavev De Ravenov, Black Chrysanthemum


Message to all vessels:

Scouts report cannon fire. Is all well?

[Lillipad]

Report to all military personnel within own fleet: "Men and women of my fleet. We will be landing by the river soon. Constant travel aboard a military fleet will only bring unwarranted stress to the civilians we are protecting. Be on guard for any and all dangers. Your current orders are to protect the civilians until we can land."
Move southeast

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Name: Leonard Fallswood
Gender/Age: male, 54
Appearance: A tall, muscular, old man. He has short, gray hair he keeps brushed back complemented by a thick, well groomed beard of matching color. Leonard has green eyes, and a scar across his nose. He is never seen without his large, cracked sword, or his war-faded armored coat. He typically walks with a cane outside of combat, but is often seen in sparring and melee combat functioning perfectly without it.
Background: Leonard served as a knight templar and personal soldier of the lord, going off on frequent conquests of foreign nations. He fought seeking only an escape from the mundane, but decided to retire when peace was brought about, rejecting all offers of a promotion to the lord's court. For 15 years he served as the instructor for those seeking to achieve the rank of captain and the right to maintain their own squads. He was called back into service by the demand for heroes, gladly accepting the fight offered to him.
Skills: Navigation, Melee, Reading, Animal Husbandry
Natural Magic: Sky

Flagship name: Rouge Fleur
Flagship type: artillery, military

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Fleet

• 14 civilian ships(250 people per ship)(3500 people)
  
• 7 scouts
• 4 cruisers
• 4 supply ships(700 supplies per ship)(2800 supplies)
• 3 seeders(terraforming, planting)(300/300 seeds)
• 3 lumber clippers(construction)(300/300 building material)
• 2 strafers
• 2 ping dynamos
• 1 steamer(100 fuel)
• 1 arcani(10 mages)

Rouge Fleur
3 Speed
8 short range
5 long range
3 protection

Code: (storage(0/300)) [Select]

empty


I plan to move two tiles right and one tile down a total of seven times over however many turns that will take.

[LordBucket]

Uh...the son has never contacted you directly. It's the high
noble whatshisname that is doing all the talking.

Who contacted me then? So far the only "High Noble" mentioned has been High Noble Ariterean. Isn't he the heavenly lord's son?  Oh...those semicolons were intended to indicate a list of signers to the message? Ok. So then Ariterean is the acting commander of the imperial flagship and the heavenly lord's son has as of yet not been named?

I just assumed it was him speaking about himself in the third person all this time.

The flagship has only taken 3 damage. Notice the sup tags. It was damaged once, twice, then three times.

...ahh. Ok, so then you were listed cumulative damage, not damage per shot...and natural 20s give no crit bonus. I'll update the list.

Flagships can fire. I assumed you were using the mages on your ship to try and cast a shield spell thing.

Ok, that's fine. But if I was doing that, why did my cruiser that was fired upon receive no bonus to its defense roll? The offense and defense stat bonuses were identical.

Killing the crew makes it open for salvage or boarding.

Unfortunate.




Also, confirm that cruisers and scouts have identical combat stats? What's the difference between the designs?