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[Mardent23]

NO.
We're done with those things right now. They'll never cause as much damage as the firebombs...

How do you know?

[Devastator]

double sixes is a pretty good indicator.

[Madman198237]

Cause we've not had great luck with it yet. The firebombs take all the weaknesses of a human being and pack them into one package. Once we add the gale-stone like enchantment, it'll be golden. But for now, we've got to content ourselves with a soon-to-be-working shattering/splintering flying piece of fire-filled pottery. Technically, covered with fire and filled with flammables, but close enough.

[Devastator]

"Sure it sets people on fire with unquenchable liquid flames, but that's not dead enough."

[Mardent23]

"Sure it sets people on fire with unquenchable liquid flames, but that's not dead enough."

I never claimed that, and I'm looking forward to next battle.

[evictedSaint]

Revision: Improved Firestorm Reliability [3]

It's tricky to get the pot to be strong enough to be fired from a ballista, but fragile enough to break on impact.  Our Researcher Priests experiment with a few different methods and burn through a half-dozen ballistas before we find one that works.  The Improved Firestorm Shell is still a fired clay pot filled with Alnnar Almuqaddasa, but the pot is crafted with thicker ridges that go from bottom to top and the outside is coated with pitch and wrapped in oiled canvas.  The ridges provide some stability to the pot, allowing it to be survive being fired more often.  The pitch and canvas keep it from immediately spilling if the pot DOES break on the string, letting the entire flaming mess be flung away before it inevitably explodes.  By combining these two methods we've improved reliability to 1 misfire in 10, and eliminated casualties sustained during misfires.  Though they still don't like handling something so dangerous, our ballista crews are eager to throw fire back at the enemy.  We've been burning to death from Arstotzkan fire for three decades now.  Let's see how THEY like it!  Normal Cost.

[Mardent23]

Woot!  If the Arstozkans do have biomages, they'll be in for a big surprise . Also, next turn,  wind propulsion methods.   In terms of our mountain assault, we have an obvious answer:
Acid Rounds.
I'm assuming we're still up for the horse grenadiers.

[Egan_BW]

Still need to revise ballistas to fire downwards in the mountains.

[Mardent23]

We can do that next phase.  I'm kind of amazed we pulled this off. RNG, you work in mysterious ways. Also, evicted, can we use an order to bard our horses in Lamellar?

[Devastator]

If we go for Acid, I want it in mistform.  Then we can blow it ahead of our troops with wind-gusts, and see if the enemy can actually see through clouds to target with their cannons.  (they might.)

[Mardent23]

It would serve a dual purpose. There are some forms of acid (Hydroflouric acid, for example), that can eat through stone. If we were to launch an Acid round at the  base of the cannon emplacements,  we could collapse the entire Arstozkan  cannon line.

[evictedSaint]

evicted, can we use an order to bard our horses in Lamellar?

I've actually looked into horse Lamellar.  That armor is generally crafted with steel wires rather than leather thongs, as the surface area is larger and the weight is greater on those joints.  Plus designing the armor itself, setting up manufacturing processes for it, and ironing out any bugs that might occur would make it something you could do in a Revision.

So, no.  You can't do it with an order, I'm afraid.

[Mardent23]

I see.

[S34N1C]

Man, this turn is gonna be Spicy

[Mardent23]

Some could say... Moskurg was on Fire this turn .