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[Happerry]

Given that the description specifically calls out the enchantment school as how we'll be making the stuff, good luck with that. What one spell does another spell can probably undo.

[Devastator]

Not to exclusion..

[Madman198237]

Yes, but I'm not voting for that version of adamantine for a reason. I'm saying to use magic, LATER, to turn metals PERMANENTLY into a better material with magic-like properties. Without the need of upkeep, or protection from antimagic.

[Devastator]

That's more or less the goal, yes.  The first part is to try and call on the divine powers of creation, and mate them with our abilities in enchantment to create a new kind of metal.  It would certainly be unmakable with a spell, as a spell would be used to create it, but antimagic would simply keep us from creating it.

We know this sort of thing is possible.. antimagic doesn't stop fireballs, for instance, or lightning bolts, only the creation of such.

[Happerry]

If you want a new kind of metal, that isn't something to go to Enchantment for, as Enchantment alters what already exists. You want Transmutation, or maybe Alchemy.

Also not convinced that something that depends on magic for it's shiny good qualities would be immune to anti-magic. Their anti-magic shells shut down our enchanted ballista, after all.

[Sosoku234]

Protection of the Higher Truths/Mirage Shield (0) :
Adamantium (4) : Devastator, Crazyabe, Detoxicated, Mardent23
Flying Carpet (5): NUKE9.13, Happerry, Madman198237, Kashyyk, Sosoku234

[Madman198237]

Voting got locked earlier. eS did a coin toss, the carpet won.

[Happerry]

So for our Revision, anyone want to try making levitating platforms that we can mount Ballista upon? We might be able to get to the next range bracket from the height advantage, and those mountain forts are going to be a lot less defensible once we can reliably fire down into them.

[Kashyyk]

Ballista mounted on flying carpets is a genius idea. We should probably revise them to swivel and point downwards without losing their ammo  at the same time though.

[Taricus]

We might want to armour plate the bottom of the carpets first. Unless you guys like arrows in your butts

[Happerry]

Ballista mounted on flying carpets is a genius idea. We should probably revise them to swivel and point downwards without losing their ammo  at the same time though.

Didn't we already revise them so they could aim at a down-wards angle back when we upgraded to the enchanted ballista?

We might want to armour plate the bottom of the carpets first. Unless you guys like arrows in your butts

Would we? If we're firing from artillery range, we should be out of range of the enemy archers. I feel it defeats the point of flying artillery to then try to press the range closer with them. The benefits of flying artillery is the increased range from being able to fire from higher up, the fact that it's now really really hard for the enemy counter-artillery to shoot back with any expectation of actually hitting, and the part where they can follow a successful attack without needing to deploy and undeploy like the land bound ones.

None of that means we need to go try to advance within enemy bowshot.

If we want to do that, that's what the normal carpets with archers and firebombs are for.

[Taricus]

I meant for the regular flying carpets.

[Happerry]

Ah. Well, assuming they're an inch or so thick, that's not bad armor in and of itself. If our men are still wearing their normal armor as well, I don't think they'd be extra vulnerable to getting arrows in the rear end.

[evictedSaint]

Sorry I'm taking so long, guys.  I'm trying to figure out how to keep this balanced.

[Taricus]

Go with realism and throw balance out the window?