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[Doubloon-Seven]

Sorry about the delays, but I've been busy lately, and I'll have an update by about tomorrow morning.

[Glass]

*ahem*
<two mornings later...>

[S34N1C]

>be the resident madman scientist

Modify one of the large crossbows to launch jars of Greek fire at the enemy

[Glass]

>be the resident madman scientist

Modify one of the large crossbows to launch jars of Greek fire at the enemy

Yes! More people recognize the genius of engineering!

[Doubloon-Seven]

Sorry to you all, but, recently, I haven't had much time, so I'm afraid I'll have to put this on hiatus until further notice. I'll probably be able to write more soon, but at the moment I can't do much, as a result of quite a bit of work. Once more, my apologies.

[Glass]

D:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

But- but- but-
But science!

[Rethi-Eli]

Hostile takeover pls

[Glass]

Hostile takeover pls

PLEASE SOMEONE DO THIS
WE WANT OUR SIEGEBREAK

[Rethi-Eli]

Hello.

I am the RTD vandal. Today, I'll be taking over this RTD. Don't try and stop me.

Please quote your previous actions, and we'll get promptly started.

[Glass]

In addition, the castle's Quartermaster is very annoyed that you used a large portion of the firewood supply to make possibly-homicidal robots for a task that would be better suited to a gravity-fed hopper and a spring loaded trigger.

Ah. Erm. Yes, that would make sense. *facepalms for not thinking of this*

Okay, so. Let's actually do that, in fact: set it up so that the crossbows have gravity-fed hoppers of bolts and spring-loaded triggers. The robots can be sent to go man our cannons.

EDIT: 48 kills this turn. The expected increase in killing power has already started, and at a pace that I hadn't expected. Quite nice.
Also, despite the several issues that my system has, it is still one of our more effective weapons. It's killed 18 soldiers so far!

[5]
Much to the relief of the Quartermaster, the crossbows are automated much more efficiently, with the adaptations required being quick and easy. The automata are repurposed for the more complicated job of washing, loading, and firing cannons. These two defensive structures rack up an impressive killcount!
-15 SOLDIERS

[Volkswagen]That's the power of Adjilian engineering![/Volkswagen]

But seriously, that's great.

Now, I was planning on expanding the system, buuuuutttt....

Chuck vials of cultured smallpox into the enemy camps.

[5. Oh my god.]
Smallpox. Deadly. Untreatable. Horrific. You are called a madman by the Commander, and probably for good reason. Nevertheless, with a jar of disgusting red jellylike fluid, you sneak into the enemy camp in the garb of of a plague doctor. In the supply caravans, you take some fluid on a long pole and scratch it into the shoulder of a sleeping pack horse. Some is added to the food in the mess. You even smear some with a rag onto the seats of latrines. Everything you carry is then carefully removed. For fear of catching the disease, you sneak off in the nude. Next morning, the results are positively devastating.
-24 SOLDIERS

Ho.
Lee.
Shit.


So.
My action for this turn will be the creation of a very special chamber.
It will be manned by a single automaton, that will not be replaced until it breaks.
It will have a single crossbow, but one far higher in quality than any other crossbow in the castle.
It will be isolated in the highest room of the highest tower in the castle.
And the bolts... the bolts will have hollow points.
And those points will be filled with smallpox.

I mean, this isn't just some one-time thing. You can't just release smallpox into the enemy camp and then... nothing. Smallpox spreads. This is going to keep killing soldiers for basically the rest of the game.
What the automaton I am making this turn will be doing is making sure that even if they attempt quarantine, they will not escape the scourge.


On a different note: yay, we're on schedule for not dying to superweapons!


EDIT: The automaton. Yes, yes, it would need to be rewound, as has been pointed out to me.
No matter.
Magic... it requires sacrifices, yes? There has already been one body sacrificed in the creation of the automata...

In a wonder of old timey genius, you create a knightly automata, driven by rope and a clockwork drive. In tests, it performs well against straw dummies, but when you face it in a spar with a squire, the machine goes on to violently behead the squire, and attacks several onlookers before being destroyed with a lucky shot by a longbowman, right into the clockwork spring.

That squire... we will burn his remains. His essence will become the essence of this automaton.
This automaton will never need to be wound again.
Let the empty body and the fell soul become one, with an ashen rune upon the metal shell to bind them.
And let the fire of life burn within.

[Enemy post]

Deer can't be infected by smallpox.

Happen to bloody my antlers in the entrails of one of NRDL's victims, like I might tear up brush in the wild, to intimidate rivals.

Thanks for resurrecting this.

[ziizo]

no the Bible your only weapon. you have no choice but to use your skills in diplomacy to convince enemy soldiers to join your side.

"WOLOLO WOLOLO"

[OceanSoul]

If our poison will not work, then a different poison sleeping-potion will! Coat arrowheads with the stuff, and watch our enemy raid Dreamland!

[CABL]

Hello, can I play against you? I'll update the message after I get the answer.

[ZM5]

[6]
The... concoction is reluctantly taken by a few soldiers, and after several minutes of irregular breathing and general unresponsiveness, they awake. Tests reveal that they are indeed strong and hardy, capable of lifting hundreds of pounds, mentally, they are essentially oxen. Not particularly what you were going for.

Hmm...That gives me an idea.

Try to figure out a way to fill the enemy's supplies with the concoction - after all, what use is their strength if they act like docile, simple-minded animals?

Glad to see this is back.