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[Kogan Loloklam]

NRDL is actually pretty good at tracking. His problem with his hunting skills is that he isn't as proficient at using his spear. Seeing as he has no other tools to take down the animals he is hunting, this becomes a big problem.

For Warriors, Ahra probably is the best as his archery skill is close to a basic level. But Basic level is the key word here.
That's probably why the El-effichen did so poorly in their early combat I imagine, since they don't really have any high combat skill.

[NRDL]

We are all going to die a slow, painful death by either starvation or torture from the warlike tribe, just because we have no warriors or our hunter ( me ) is pathetic.  Is there any other weapon I'm proficient at?  I know we don't have any other weapons, but while I'm hunting, someone could make a new weapon, if possible. 

[Kogan Loloklam]

We are all going to die a slow, painful death by either starvation or torture from the warlike tribe, just because we have no warriors or our hunter ( me ) is pathetic.  Is there any other weapon I'm proficient at?  I know we don't have any other weapons, but while I'm hunting, someone could make a new weapon, if possible. 

No, you are not. You could try for a new weapon that you might have more natural skill at. Really there is only two weapons that don't have hunting penalties with though, the spear and Bow. There are other techniques for hunting that could be used. One would be something Herders would be familiar with, although you aren't really a skilled enough herdsman for that to be effective.

As for starvation... Your tribe's primary source of food for generations is not hunting. It is Trading and herding. This is where you have your critical problem. Your herd is not big enough to last currently. Your tribe will still, at it's current rate, survive to next summer. The question is if it'll have a herd then. One year of dedicated practice will see a greater increase in your spear skill than one year of continued use. One year of training will see even a greater increase in spear skill than one year of dedicated practice.

At a Clanmeet, you have plenty of teachers, which micelus is about to take advantage of.

[Ahra]

how would an good club work out for me with my strength btw?

[NRDL]

We are all going to die a slow, painful death by either starvation or torture from the warlike tribe, just because we have no warriors or our hunter ( me ) is pathetic.  Is there any other weapon I'm proficient at?  I know we don't have any other weapons, but while I'm hunting, someone could make a new weapon, if possible. 

No, you are not. You could try for a new weapon that you might have more natural skill at. Really there is only two weapons that don't have hunting penalties with though, the spear and Bow. There are other techniques for hunting that could be used. One would be something Herders would be familiar with, although you aren't really a skilled enough herdsman for that to be effective.

As for starvation... Your tribe's primary source of food for generations is not hunting. It is Trading and herding. This is where you have your critical problem. Your herd is not big enough to last currently. Your tribe will still, at it's current rate, survive to next summer. The question is if it'll have a herd then. One year of dedicated practice will see a greater increase in your spear skill than one year of continued use. One year of training will see even a greater increase in spear skill than one year of dedicated practice.

At a Clanmeet, you have plenty of teachers, which micelus is about to take advantage of.

Ok cool.  So all I need is a year long training montage. 

[Noodlerex]

Goes out into the wilderness, becoming one with the wilds and searching for potent herbs to help his rituals.

[Yoink]

Well okay, sorry, I was a bit confused.
Mafun will accompany his fellows out patrolling for other suitable targets, then.
I hope I did it right this time...

[Azkul]

There are other techniques for hunting that could be used. One would be something Herders would be familiar with, although you aren't really a skilled enough herdsman for that to be effective.

What does that happen to be?
Trapping?

[Kogan Loloklam]

What does that happen to be?
Trapping?

That's one of many.

Currently Nix is spear hunting solo. There isn't much assurance of success doing that unless you are a good tracker and can use your spear.
Each little hunting thing when the pray is tracked becomes a miniature battle between Nix and the Pray animal. It isn't hard to kill it, but Nix's spear skill is the minimum it can be, and the pray animal is determined to get away.

And yes NRDL, a Year-long training montage would be beneficial for you.

Yoink, that is fine.

Turn coming soon.

[Azkul]

What does that happen to be?
Trapping?

That's one of many.

Currently Nix is spear hunting solo. There isn't much assurance of success doing that unless you are a good tracker and can use your spear.
Each little hunting thing when the pray is tracked becomes a miniature battle between Nix and the Pray animal. It isn't hard to kill it, but Nix's spear skill is the minimum it can be, and the pray animal is determined to get away.

And yes NRDL, a Year-long training montage would be beneficial for you.

Yoink, that is fine.

Turn coming soon.

But what do you mean by "One would be something Herders would be familiar with"?
Why would a herder be better at hunting than a hunter?

[Ahra]

he may refer to the ancient "scare the fuckers down a cliff/into an canyon as an herd of stupid sheep and coup de grace/kill them one by one with rocks"

[Kogan Loloklam]

Wow, you guys would be surprised how much of my "turns" turn into research about random crap, like... Shearing!
Then I gotta make some kind of way to simulate that reliably. In the end a set of numbers get pulled out of somewhere and Poof, I got an ability to find out how many pounds of wool you can extract from a sheep a year!

And now, what the heck do I do with this information?
Well shucks if I know, but I imagine the research will be the subject of another turn.

See, this is why I should keep my 1 a week schedule. This could burn me out otherwise. 4 Hours of research, crazy. Granted only about 30 or so minutes of it was actually devoted to sheep. Almache's foraging party required adjustments to my mechanics, which caused some issues, and there was other bits of research, and examining the plains that El-Effhichen are operating on right now... And I spent some time looking at other things... Actually I'd say 2 of those 4 hours were "TV Tropes Syndrome" of a research sort. I don't know why the distance from Paris to Moscow was important, but I did check into it...


Anyway.
Yes, good 'ole Buffalo drops.

Now, the turn!

Almache had another bad season. Actually this one was worse than the last one. One person is missing and presumed eaten.

Spoiler: Almache (click to show/hide)

Arv orders the warriors to go scout for the beast's camp, making the warriors move by night. He stays in the village recovering.
The Almache have another bad forage season. The Matron is again upset with Arv over the fact that once again the men are off worrying about animals rather than ensuring the survival of the tribe.
Again, no Almache warriors managed to get near the Moloki village. One never came back from the attempt. It was Arv's brother who went missing.

The Matron has stripped Arv of his position. There are mumblings of talking about exiling Arv, since he appears to be feeding the village to the beasts one by one for no reason whatsoever.

Arv's Family Holdings:
Arv's younger sister is the Head of her group. She holds:
4 Men (Father, Uncle, Arv, Partner)
3 Teens (Siblings)
2 Infants (Head's Offspring)
A large family dwelling
The Family is considered the last among the 6 families socially in the village.

Tribe Assets:
1 Village of 57 people.
Food for 7 Months

(EDIT: El-Effhichen's sheep herd population didn't show the 300 they gained from deals. This is fixed.)
El-Effhichen have finished their summer "meetup". They won't be seeing the clan again until next year.

Spoiler: El-Effhichen (click to show/hide)

Micelus managed to find someone who is willing to teach Micelus for hides. The chieftain caught on to this deal though and convinced him to join the tribe in exchange for 10 sheep. He brought his wife along. With your surpurb haggling skills and the lack of any partial sheep to sell, you have bought a significant quantity of paint and paint mixtures.

Tak'am carved a hunting spear and blessed it. It appears to be of lesser quality than Nix's current spear, Nix solomly takes it. While he had plenty of free time, all the youths approaching maturity had none. The younger ones were properly tended by Tak'am and the rest of the spiritual men of the Clanmeet, therefore they were kept under adequate control.

Ahra managed to embed his hide clothing with bone. It is now Bone-Reinforced Hide Clothing. He found someone with a larger bow to trade, but he was unable to pay for it.

Azkul looked after the animals. He was assisted by the children, whom were assigned to that duty by the chief. They operated in tandum with the rest of the tribes of the clan, so the herd was adequately controlled.

Nix Hunted. He had 4 successes. With so many mouths to feed it did not go far. Nix was able to trade 1 of the 4 hides to have the rest skinned. He now has 3 hides.

73 sheep were needed to be slaughtered to feed the tribe. The Chieftain did so. The chief made deals that resulted in the loss of 30 sheep, 10 Male Youths, and 7 Female Youths. He gained the couple mentioned earlier, plus 1 more warrior and 3 Female Adults, one of which is a weaver. He has made a promise to several clanmembers for a certain amount of sheared wool in exchange for more sheep. he has added 300 sheep to the flock, but has to deliver 700 sheep or the equivelent at next Clanmeet.

Several rumors were discussed.

There was a hunting technique the Ignis-Al observed. Appearently after breeding season the stranger tribe scared a bunch of animals into a narrow canyon and blocked it with their warriors. They then proceeded to slaughter a set number of the males, enough to feed their tribe for the year. The Calfs and females were allowed to leave to maintain the herd, along with a small margin of males. It was almost like sheep herding, but without the worry of watching the flock. Of course it didn't have the wool either, which made the whole thing pointless from the point of view of the Ignis-Al.

A El-kekein tribesman talked about seeing some buildings made of stone where the woods meet the hills in the northeast. They were absolutly huge, almost twice the size of a tribal yurt! (It's a two story building)

There is talk about the superior craftsmanship of spears from a tribe far in the west. An example was brought out. It looks absolutly exquisite. The clanmember who showed it would not part with it.

There's rumors of a giant beetle with the head of a man to the south. It is rumored to breathe fire. The clanmember who talked about it insisted it was the cause of the last grass fire two years ago. He didn't see it personally, but he talked to a warrior who encountered it and survived.

Personal Assets:
Ahra:
None
Azkul:
None
Nix:
3 Hides
Tak'am:
None
Micelus:
35 Sheep
5 Goats
20 Lbs of Paint Trade Goods.

Tribal Assets:
A large Tribal Yurt
25 Villagers
Sheep Herd of 274 574 (+59 "Privately Owned" sheep)
Goat Herd of 68
Food for 3 Months

Normally I wouldn't mention how critical an aid the sea otters are, since it could go either way, but the RNG hated the Humans and Loved the Otters of the Gokanloa this season. If not for the otters, this village would have to rely on their harvest to make it to next spring

Spoiler: Gokanloa (click to show/hide)

Noka has found some medicinal herbs. They have been added to his inventory.

Fire assisted in the fishing.

The tribe had a decent catch. It could have been much better, but it wasn't too bad.

Tribal Assets:
Friendly raft of Sea Otters nearby that help the tribe fish
1 Village of 35 people.
30 Acres of Farmland (30 Acres plowed)
2 10-Man Spearfishing Canoes
6.5 Months of Food

Mokoli had a disporportionate rate of failure in keeping their borders secure. Unfortunatly for those who attempted to infiltrate them, they have a large tribe consisting of large amounts of warriors. Just the same, there is a battle report tucked in here.

Spoiler: Mokoli (click to show/hide)

While out on a patrol, Mafun ran into an Almache warrior. The band of 5 Mokoli attacked the Almache. The Almache turned and ran, but the Mokoli kept up. The persuit continued. They caught up with the Almache warrior. One of the Mokoli couldn't keep up with the wild run. 3 Mokoli and Mafun fought the cornered Almache. They began attacking the Almache. The Almache warrior focused on one of the Mokoli and began exchanging blows. A heavy smack across the side of the head of the Almache looks painful, but the axe blow he returns isn't very nice either. The Mokoli appears enraged by this and delivers two quick club swings at the Almache, but neither appeared to hurt him. The Almache swings his axe himself, but the Mokoli warrior manages to deflect the strike with his shield. The Almache managed to keep any of his foe's allies from landing any hits against him. Another quick exchange of blows landed a solid hit against the Almache's chest. Knowing he couldn't get away even if he tried, He spat out some blood and continued the engagement. His normal partner didn't land a blow this time, instead the one to the Almache warrior's right landed the blow, distracting the Almache and ruining his own counterattack. It didn't seem to hurt him however. The frontal warrior took advantage of this distraction to land another blow. It didn't seem to affect the Almache however, and the combat continued. The right side Mokoli was waiting for the opening that the frontal Mokoli created, and delivered a nasty strike to the Almache. The Almache was struck in the head, cracking open the skull. Mafun assisted in returning with the body of the Almache to the Tribe.

Several Almache were sighted near the Mokoli village.
Several Koven were sighted near the Mokoli village.
One male child has been born to one of the Mokoli females.
Advance Kovan scouts warned of the Mokoli raiding party in time and the village was fully evacuated.
Mokoli hunters have not been successful this season.

There is a message from the Chief to Mafun. I sent a PM with it.

Village Assets:
1 Village of 131 people.
6.5 Months of food

The observant amongst you and those who doublecheck after seeing this will notice there is no change in food amounts for lost or gained people. This is because I don't want to keep track of it in any more detail than I currently do

[Taricus]

Arv attempts to think of new ways to fight the mokoli, whilst attempting to gain his honour back.

[Kogan Loloklam]

...

If I could offer tips... Don't send 10 men in tiny groups to find the center of 100+ strong force again, at least unless they have a little bit of practice in stealth. You should really count yourself fortunate only one got caught. You had 85 men patrolling the area outside the tribal area, hunting and patrolling and such. In 5 man groups. I fudged the dice a little and made it a 1 in 5 chance Mafun would be involved instead of the 1 in 17 it should have been, but really that should be considered an advantage since Mafun doesn't get the +4 to his attack skill that the rest of the Mokoli have (He ain't very aggressive).

A bit about how I currently am running battles...

I have skills on a 1-20ish scale. Average skill level is 4. 8 would be "trained".
In a normal battle between two Almache kind of tribes, hits would be pretty low, because I compare the individual weapon skills of each warrior, and give a 1/4 modifier to the difference between them.
So, the "Hit" rolls are rolled to be at or below the modified number. Besides the difference in skill, there are other factors that add modifers to it, such as high ground, morale, and Agressive Trait. Very aggressive gives a +4 modifier to attacking, but gives the SAME modifier to being attacked. So Arv's axe skill pushes it well over an even chance to hit a average Mokoli warrior each combat round. Sometimes there is a different skill that is important that counts higher than a weapon skill. An example would be dodging for the deer that Nix keeps trying to kill, or Mafun's Shield Skill, which is over 200% higher than his club skill (though nobody has really attacked him in any real dangerous setting yet. He's always been rolling too deep to be messed with)

Wounds are a check of strength, modified by 1/4th the difference between them. Constitution gives a number of wounds per point. The average human will usually have 3 wounds they can take before dying.
Agression doesn't modify wounds, so where you have a pretty even chance of scoring hits, it's less than that for wounds. HOWEVER, certain weapons have different effects on the situation. In this case, the Axe gives an advantage over a simple club at inflicting a wound.

Armor saves also come into play. This time they each have a number that is needed to use it to prevent a wound. I don't know how they will stack yet, but so far I haven't run into anyone armored enough to have to count two different save things.


So why say this? Not for any reason in particular, but I figure since it seems fairly functional and now it's pretty stable, it'll be a good way to understand the mechanics I use here.

[Tack]

Hey, that's fine.

I guess I'll spend a season practicing my woodwork and tending to the children.
I didn't notice that I started with 0 skill...


Also I'll begin talking to Azkul about the slings used by the herders from my previous tribe, and see if I can convince him to try his hand with one.