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[Unraveller]

Well I'm excited. All of you folks' nations look pretty dang groovy. Hopefully my little guys can make some friends. Thoigh I'm just as open to their wholesale slaughter, such is life. Hehe.

[Screech9791]

You knew what you were signing up for when you looked at my murderbot kingdom sheet, right?

[Supernerd]

I am going over all the applications again, and have identified more problems. Please review your application even if it is not listed below to make sure everything is correct.

WRONG THINGS:

coleslaw35: Your recruiting this turn section has an invalid total. Please review the formula under the Recruitment section. Or read it here:
(X+1)*100-(Y/50)
X is equal to the number of territories you control.
Y is equal to the point value of your troops at the start of the turn.
So its actually 160 on turn 0.

You also only have 1750 points of troops in your current troops section, I think you changed your mind about costs or something.

Chaoskl21: The Geck Sorcerer project really seems like it should be in the Troop Designs spoiler, and lacks cost information. Xolchak should be in the Heroes section of your application. You have spent a total of 27 points on projects, but only 20 points are allowed.

I was also initially confused by how you had two versions of your application posted. I am assuming the one posted later is the one you are using.

TheRedwolf: The boat unit has multiple different names in different parts of your application. The Gunmen troop cost is not stated (But looks to have a value of 1). You also did not specify what is being recruited for turn 0 in the Recruiting this turn section.

Shadowclaw777: You have only spend 17 project points, and still have 3 left to spend.

[coleslaw35]

Fixed. I forgot the Iron Initiates are 0.5 recruitment cost. Also, I was just assuming that we started with 200 recruitment capacity. Forgot about the formula.

[chaotick21]

My bad I wasn't adding my troop designs to the project design portion. I'm just going to delete the geck sorcerers

[TheRedwolf]

Fixed my sheet

[Supernerd]

Turn 0

Spoiler: Worldmap (Massive image) (click to show/hide)

And so it came to pass that the seven major powers of the world achieved dominance over their territory. The world prepares to embark on a new era of bloodshed!

Spoiler: Territory Information (click to show/hide)

NWW: The northwest corner of the map.
Strategic Resources - Lucent Glass: A special kind of glass that can only be made with the sand from this beach. Can be used to train units with invisible equipment.
Tactical analysis - Ace Island: A mysterious island with almost no life present, aside from the worms and microbiome.
Tactical analysis - Sea of no Cares: The sea in the northwest corner of the world. Those who sail beyond the tile rarely return.
Tactical analysis - Second Darkest Dungeon: Its a dungeon, lit only by faint red torches. There's only one darker dungeon in the known world.
Neutral Entities - Ghoul x 300: Undead monsters with cannibalistic tendencies.
Neutral Entities - Rogue Necromancer (Hero): A practicioner of the dark arts, holed up in the Second Darkest Dungeon

NW: Pridea, a player nation

NM: The northernmost tile, just above the center of the map.
Strategic Resources - Astral Shards: They radiate a brilliant evil light from a distant world. Can be used to train units with both light and unholy powers.
Tactical analysis - Site of the Starfall: Meteors have fallen here a long time ago. The remnants can heal the body, but injure the soul.
Tactical analysis - Cenati Meadow: A field with many flowers, where its almost impossible to track someone by scent.
Tactical analysis - Mt Nasty: The tallest mountain in the area. Insurmountable to most unit types.
Neutral Entities - Luminous Horrors x 300: A kind of light demon, with an annoying tendency to heal both itself and others of its kind.
Neutral Entities - Griffon (Hero): This monster has the body of a lion, wings and head of an eagle, and a bad attitude.

NE: Reptilia Prime, a player nation

NEE: The Northeast corner of the map.
Strategic Resource - Dark Wood: Wood grown from a forest tainted by darkness. Can be used to make high quality siege weapons.
Tactical analysis - Shadowed Woods: This ancient forest is the perfect place for an ambush, if you don't get lost within.
Tactical analysis - Mt Barton: The highest point in the territory. This mountain is a particularly defensible location.
Tactical analysis - Ruined City: This city is reminiscent of Steelhold architecture, yet distict.
Neutral Entities - Satyr x 300: Not quite a man, and not quite a goat. These creatures are fond of trickery.
Neutral Entities - Mamut Taipan (Hero): A massive snake with a deadly venom. It is unclear what kind of prey could possibly warrant such a mighty animal to also require venom.

MWW: Darkest Dungeon, a player nation

MW: One tile west from the center of the map.
Strategic Resource - Discord: This extract from the Tree of Chaos can turn people into monsters. Can be used to create strong but hard to manage units.
Tactical analysis - Great Lake Orbega: The waters of this lake are dangerously cold. Ensure your boat is up to code.
Tactical analysis - The tree of Chaos: The chaotic influence of this massive tree can lay waste to even the best made plans.
Tactical analysis - Fragile Ice Sheets: A very dangerous place to march a large army.
Neutral Entities - Butterflies x 1500 (0.2 cost): These insects are seemingly pretty and harmless, yet many deaths are attributed to them!
Neutral Entities - The Mad Dryad (Hero): The guardian of the Tree of Chaos. Far more powerful than any regular hero. If she is to be slain, you'll need to wait for her to do something reckless and stupid; which is often.

MM: The Great Hole, a player nation

ME: One tire east of the center of the map.
Strategic Resource - Winsome Slime: This goopy substance can absorb and contain massive amounts of magic power. Can be used to create magic-resistant units.
Tactical analysis - The Dark Swamp of Tears: The mud-water within this swampland can swallow a person whole!
Tactical analysis - Elder's Lake: The perimiter of the lake is one of the only two routes through the tile that won't severely impair your army's marching speed.
Tactical analysis - Former Metropolitan Area: The ruins of a once great city lie here.
Neutral Entities - Green Gunge x 300: A slime monster capable of melting flesh and metal alike with its powerful acid. Though slow and not very bright, only their core is vulnerable to conventional weaponry.
Neutral Entities - Ghost in the Machine (Hero): A powerful spirit that haunts the Former Metropolitan Area. It controls the remnants of old world technology though a process not yet understood. Banish it, or destroy the relics to render it harmless.

MEE: Stahlfestung, a player nation

SWW: The south west corner of the map
Strategic Resource - Cockatrice: A cross between a snake and a chicken. Contact with this creature will slowly cause the victim to turn to stone. Can be used to train units that exploit this phenomenon.
Tactical analysis - Ancient Temple: Built from holy stone. Not a safe place for the local aberrations to stay.
Tactical analysis - Cockatrice Nests: Also known as the statue garden. very dangerous for a lightly guarded caravan.
Tactical analysis - The Wild Lands: Beyond this portion of the map lies monsters too powerful for the modern civilizations to have any hope of taming. Some nasty things may encroach in this area.
Neutral Entities - Guardian Statue (Hero): This massive animated statue at the Ancient Temple seeks to purge the world of something. That something includes you!
Neutral Entities - Giant Tortolisk (Hero): A massive reptile that can petrify all it beholds! One of the few natural predators of the Cockatrice.

SW: Old London, a player nation

SM: One tile south of the center of the map.
Strategic Resource - Precursor Aerotech: Technological artifacts from an ancient civilzation far greater than those of modern days. Can be used to make high tier technological units.
Tactical analysis - The Scar of the World: A massive canyon that most units simply cannot traverse.
Tactical analysis - Old World Viaduct: A bridge about 20 meters wide that crosses the Scar of the World. An important tactical location.
Tactical analysis - Ruined Arcology: The ruins of a once great city. A treasure trove of ancient relics.
Neutral Entities - Gobborg x 600 (0.5 cost): Goblins augmented with technological components. Nasty unpredictable demihuman trash.
Neutral Entities - War Machine (Hero): A massive robotic warform that guards the Ruined Arcology. It has protected the grave of its masters for millenia from any and all incursions.

SE: Nexus Wastes, a player nation

SEE: The southeast corner of the Map
Strategic Resource - Floatstone: This rock is as light as air! Can be used to train units that are both armored and swift.
Tactical analysis - Abandoned Highway: The easiest passage through the mountainous territory to navigate.
Tactical analysis - Mirror Lake: A crystal clear lake.
Tactical analysis - Urd Volcano: A massive volcano that can do a lot of damage if it erupts at the wrong time.
Neutral Entities - Harpy x 300: Winged humanoid monsters, fond of consuming children.
Neutral Entities - Red Dragon (Hero): A fire breathing dragon! Enough said right?

Tips of the day:
When you send out an army to attack a distant tile, you may engage the enemy forces somewhere around the midway point. You'll be at a disadvantage if you don't have a contingency for that. Also, it will take time for an army to move so the combat phase might not happen on the next turn update. This is especially true for large scale combat. You want to conquer as much territory as possible, but also make sure that your capital is secure.

It is strongly recommended to make a journal post along with your turn update. The story is going to be run mostly by the players and its more interesting that way.

You may now post your Day 1 update. Remember to add the troops you recruited on turn 1, and use your project points. Please only make one post with all of your Day 1 activities, and use the template provided on the first post for that. Diplomatic discussions with other players may be in separate posts. Please do not edit posts made prior to the turn update. Day 2 will not begin until I say so.

The only exception is for troop movements, which should be in a separate post. If you are making multiple attacks, try to keep them all in the same post.

[TheRedwolf]

Civilization Name: League of Grand Battleborn Trance-mages and Questors
Theme:Pride Month
Day 1:
Home Territory: Pridea
https://imgur.com/a/jtq2IvL
Other Territories:
Owned Strategic Resources: Hormones: 100 (+100)

Current Troops:
Allies:2400
Bi-barians:520
Gunmen:520
Longboats:520
Heroes:
Supplies:

Recruiting this turn:
400 allies
20 Bi-barians
20 Gunmen
20 Longboats

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Longboat: Wooden Galleys Designed for naval combat and Transportation. They are crewed by Sapphic women from the island of Lesbos Cost 1
Bi-barians: Warriors from the south that wield double edged battleaxes that swing both ways in furious attacks Cost: 1
Gunmen: men from the citadel that wield muskets in battle. They are extremely accurate because they fight with their lover by their side Cost 1
Allies: Miscellaneous sword warriors recruited from other lands. They tend to be fair weather soldiers that retreat easily Cost .25

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Longboats: allows training of longboats cost 5
Bi-barians: Allows training of bi-barians Cost 2
Gunmen: allows training of Gunmen cost 3
Trance Rites: An intense series of meditation rituals involving hormones allowing trance mages to transform in to their true selves, granting them magical abilities. The order Estros specialises in healing and support, the order Andros specialises in offensive spells, and Enbos specialises in pushing and transcending the boundaries of magic  cost 8
 Allies: Allows training of allies cost 2
Trance mage order Andros: allows training Trance mages of the order Andros 0/5

[Unraveller]

Civilization Name: Daal'Gak (Great Hole)
Theme: Subterranean Gribblies

Day 1: Emergence of the Crundles
When at last the final beams were erected and Gru'Bek paste dried to the cool air of the wastes, the 'fortress' of Burz'Gaang was complete. It's cavern-like complex within extended as if almost a natural extension of the vast vault below, expected of creatures who dwelt not upon the surface of the world for but a scant handfuls of moons. Certain their prized Gaar'Vul, the black stone, was secure under the watch of the most sharp-eyed sentries amidst the Great Hole and fort, the Daal'Gaks' gaze turned to lands beyond. To the spire-like mountains of the north, to the unfathomable tree and lake, to great marshes and olde cities, to technology fallen in decay. . .

Knowing not the freedom of this open world, the disjointed tribal chieftains of the Daal'Gaks turn to eldest longhorns whom spend their days gazing deep into the mysterious confines of Gaar'Vul. It is there they witness a vision, one that drives the tribes very spirit onward. A red figure, squat and horned, rising to the top of a great spike of stone. They overlook the world before them, parting the clouds and shed tears, for eye to eye is a vast crimson sea that sets itself awash across the land. Swallowing forests, cities, ruins alike. And it was good.

Gaar'Vul holds only truths, and so it shall be.

From every corner a Daal'Gak tribe rises. They blow bleating horns and croak bellowing songs of the world below, off to the lands of light.


Home Territory: The Great Hole -- https://imgur.com/a/f3X8UbF
Other Territories: None
Owned Strategic Resources: Meteoric Obsidian (100/Per Turn) -- Volcanic glass of an unnaturally dark shade. It fell from the heavens above, rupturing the Earth long ago. Thus cracking the olde vaults below the world, by which all manner of detestable beast emerge. The Tribal Daal'Gaks both idolize what is left of the enigmatic glass and have begun to utilize it for its unfathomably sharp edges when knapped. It is said one may see their innermost self in reflection when gazing upon 'Gaar'Vul.'

Current Troops:
Crundle Tribals -- 4,500  (1,125 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 1,440 (360 Value)
Trogs -- 450 (450 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 300 (225 Value)

Heroes: None

Supplies: Meteoric Obsidian (x100)

Recruiting this turn: (157 Value)
356 - Crundle Tribals (89 Value)
30 - Trogs (30 Value)
50 - Gru'Beks (38 Value)

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Crundle - Tribals -- (Project Cost: 2 | Recruitment Value: 0.25) Squat, gremin-like creatures no taller than four foot at the tall end. Their wart-covered red skin is like stretched rubber over their thin boned structure. A collection of small horns dot their angular skulls, the length of which is an arbitrary symbol pride among them. Oddly, they give off a pleasant and inoffensive earthy odor. Their main choice of equipment consists of lacerating natural claws, knapped stone spears, and loose fitting cavern hides to ward the elements of the surface. Crundles are far and away the main inhabitants and dominate species among the Daal'Gaks. And while their introspective intelligence leaves something to be desired, their surprising cunning does not.

Crundle - Pebble-Slinggers -- (Project Cost: 2 | Recruitment Value: 0.25) Much as the above, save for the replacement of their spears with long slingstaffs born of spongy fungal wood by which stones are flung. They gather together in loose bands and sling in a rather orderly unison, fooling a foe to perhaps believe they've mastered the art of siege engineering and bear catapult-like objects.

Trog - Siege Beasts -- (Project Cost: 4 | Recruitment Value: 1) Rare amongst the Daal'Gaks are great furred humanoids, some standing greater than ten-feet tall. Walrus-like tusks decend from their upper mouths while broad muscled shoulders aid in their lumbering gait and short legs. I'm truth, the Trogs are far more intelligent than their comparatively minuscule cousins. They bare greater wit and even a taste for philosophy. However they are subjugated by the Crundles and used as beast of burden and war. With backpack-like fungal-wood structures harboring a handful of Crundles wielding long spears, javelins, and slingstaffs, they combine the qualities of a siege tower and battering ram into one absolute unit.

Gru'Beks - Thick Slugs -- (Project Cost: 3 | Recruitment Value: 0.75) Amidst the Great Hole, a great advancement for the race of Daal'Gaks was the domestication of the humble Gru'Bek; A large bulbous cavern slug that both secretes and may expel a mixture of mucus that quickly hardens, taking on a cement-like quality. Used to trap prey for further dissolution. As well as a renknewable resource from which the Daal'Gaks have used to create the first bits of infrastructure for their tribe. Only the Gru'Bek is known to be able to naturally neutralize this cement. Crundles coat themselves in a thick tar / pitch substance, which has been found to resist around 90% of adherence to the Gru'Beks' mucus. Thus Gru'Bek masters are able to be picked out at but a glance, sometimes referred to as black riders. Up to a trio may easily ride the back of one such slug, with the usual assortment of weaponry. Two bearing a longspear, and the third a slingstaffs. In battle their intent is not to charge like most cavalry, but utilize their mount's physiology in trapping / screening the front ranks of the enemy.

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Expand Outwards and Upwards -- (Project Cost: 9) Overcoming their trepidation and shedding their sensitivity to the great lights above, the Daal'Gaks collectively make an effort to emerge from their deep ravine and build up a presence in the world at large. Through a combination of spongy fungal wood and Gru'Bek cement, they construct the makings of a proper fortress, or at least one through the bleak eyes of cunning cave dwellers upon the precipice of the Great Hole, to secure their place amongst the rest. It is known in their tongue by the name Burz'Gaang


Study the Black Glass -- (Project Cost: 2 / 4) As the minds and souls of the Daal'Gaks develop under the rising and setting Sun, so too does their need for greater tools and deeper myth to herald them on. And so those of great horns begin to lance hefty chunks of the meteoric glass, while the few masters of stonecunning and craft begin to knap the incredibly sharp material to use for blades that might rend any substance asunder. Or to the superstition of the Daal'Gaks, cut through any mysteries or truths. -- Unlocks recruitment of Crundle Black-Blades (Value 0.75 / Obsidian 1); The first of the true Daal'Gak warriors who bear pride in martial skill, bearing long wavy, feathered shards of Meteoric Obsidian. Not only do they reflect the true spirits of their wielders in their deep mirrored surfaces, but so too may they slice delicately through some of the most durable materials.
0/21 Project Points remain.

[Screech9791]

Civilization Name: Harvester Nexus
Theme: Rogue Harvester Robots
Day 1
Home Territory: Nexus Wastes (map: https://pic8.co/sh/BM884n.png)
Other Territories: None
Owned Strategic Resources: Living Metal (+100/turn)

Current Troops: (2160 total value)
900 Ancient Impalers
660 Ancient Choppers
100 Ancient Ballistae
1000 Ancient Maintenance Drones

Heroes:
Robotonk Prototype

Stored Strategic Resources: 21.5 Living Metal

Recruiting this turn (cost: 157 value, 78.5 living metal):
314 Scout Drone MK2s

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Ancient Impaler (2): A humanoid robot with average durability and two pneumatic pickaxes which are good for impaling organic scum. Cost: 1 value
Ancient Chopper (2): A slightly larger humanoid robot with heavier armor and axes; essentially a less mobile but more lethal Impaler. Cost: 1 value
Ancient Ballistae (2): An automated ballista that's roughly 75% the size of a standard ballista, with an autoloader for faster firing. Cost: 1 value
Ancient Maintenance Drone (2): Glorified quadcopter drones that can repair fellow machines. Cost: 0.5 value
Scout Drone MK2 (2): A variant of the maintenance drone that lacks an entire toolkit in exchange for a miniature sensor array that allows it to spot stuff which normally isn't visible to most organic life. Has an integral pneumatic living metal shard launcher that grows living metal for ammunition. Cost: 0.5 value, 0.25 living metal

Robotonk Prototype: It's a tank, equipped with a cannon that shoots solid steel cannonballs at targets, primarily those who are inclined to call bullshit over a bunch of determined exterminators bringing a tank to a swordfight. Something to note is that historically, explosive cannonballs didn't exist; the majority of cannonballs derived their lethality from the sheer kinetic force of a huge ball of metal flying at high velocity. Extreme lethality and destructive capabilities against anything without a considerable resistance to flying balls of metal, but it has limited close range anti-infantry capabilities.

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Ancient Impaler Drone Weaponization: Unlocks (ancient) impalers for 1 value/troop. (2 points)
Ancient Chopper Drone Weaponization: Unlocks (ancient) choppers for 1 value/troop. (2 points)
Ancient Ballista Production: Unlocks (ancient) ballistae for 1 value/troop, (2 points)
Improve Maintenance Drone Reactors: Unlocks (ancient) maintenance drones for 0.5 value/troop, (2 points)
Scout Drone MK2 Production: Unlocks scout drone MK2s for 0.5 value and 0.25 living metal per troop. (2 points)
Create the Robotonk Prototype: Adds the Robotonk Prototype hero. (10 points)

IN PROGRESS:
Prepare Living Metal Impaler Manufacturing: 1/2
Prepare Living Metal Chopper Manufacturing: 1/2

Information pastebin link (read for non-TL;DR descriptions, log entries, and fluff): https://pastebin.com/aD2eDzej

[Shadowclaw777]

Civilization Name: The Ancestors
Theme: Eldritch Horrors
Day 0:
Home Territory: Darkest Dungeon
Map: https://imgur.com/a/EF0zqWK
Other Territories: -
Owned Strategic Resources: Crimson Curse
Current Troops:
1200 Bone Defenders
650 Bone Arbalests
310 Undead Horse

Heroes: Necromantic Scholar
Supplies: Crimson Curse (100 Stored) (100/Turn)

Recruiting this turn (154 Value)
94 Bone Defenders
50 Bone Arbalests
10 Undead Horses

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Bone Defender: Human Militia of the previous castle, now risen up to the grave from necromantic energy in the Ruins as now skeletal shells and equipped with their arming swords and heavy kite shields, wearing and armored in rusting chainmail and their hardened bones, while slow they move in formation and carry heavy armor and have their undead motivation to kill any who oppose the Ancestor’s will until their bodies eventually shamble to broken pieces (2 Project Cost, 1 Unit Cost)
Bone Arbalest: Human Guardsman of the previous castle, now risen from their outposts and sentry positions and have been risen from the Ruin’s necromantic energy, they are equipped with powerful hitting crossbows, but take significant time to reload, and all have a rusting semi-useful bayonet when enemies try to melee them. (2 Project Cost, 1 Unit Cost)
Undead Horse: Undead horses that used to be grazing, pack and work animals, or even some horses from the knightly stables, now risen up from necromantic energy most still have their rotting skin as they trounce and gallop across the battlefield with their bonely hooves and carved horse jaws to trample on their opponents (2 Project Cost, 1 Unit Cost)

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Crimson Curse (5), Powerful curse that increases the ferocity, strength, endurance, and stamina of a creature wherever they harvest blood from others in any means possible an have a endless thirst to gather more and more of it, this supernatural curse has found a way to live inside the bloodstream and has mystical abilities with it, it transmits whenever another creature veins touch the Curse and they become curse with the effect.

Necromancer Scholar: (9): One of the Ancestor’s most valuable scholar and adviser
that collaborated with the Ancestor on the art of how to achieve immortality, murdered and then brought back with much of his intellect intact, but with little to no humanity remaining. After the Ancestor's death, the Necromancer took over the Ruins, using their magic to bring the corpses buried there back to life as their servants, continuing his unholy experiments with necromancy and bringing back the dead eternally. The magic has empowered the creature to be twice the size of a man and clothed in giant red cultist robes with only its damaged skull showing, he is capable of bringing back the dead alive from fallen enemy forces into the undead at this creature’s command, with his mere touch to absorb the life energy of a creature until it withers into a husk, as well as raise multiple skeletal hands from the ground from his scroll to entangle and pull squads of forces six feet under into the ground. His giant skeletal frame and raw energy holds him together, allowing him to still be very difficult to take down.

Supplicant: A huge compared to the size of a man, engorged and toughened chitinous-armored tick that is grabbing and ventriloquizing onto a desiccated corpse, it controls the human corpse and can puppet itself for its own locomotion. The giant tick can either run up to another and attack a giant creature with its mandibles to stuck the blood from another creature forcibly and possibly spread the Crimson Curse, or perform predigestion and shoot out a bile of acid that can burn through metal, all powers they gain from absorbing the Crimson Curse and living in the Courtyard. They serve in combat as a form of offensive brute, being able to handle damage while also dishing it back and spreading the Crimson Curse among the enemy ranks and distilling chaos and havoc as their organic forces require the blood of others to be satiated or wither away and die.  (2/3 Project Cost, 1 Resource, 1 Crimson Curse)

Ancestor's Journal #1 Brave New World:

It has been only months before I have resurfaced my immortality in this dishonorable manor before the antediluvian times of a creature from the stars, an eldritch entity yet abomination that could consume the world into pieces, and have let a piece of itself corrupt me into my new form, much more horrifying visage compared to the humanity I used to have, and now the Darkest Dungeon calls to me to protect it and  to spread its madness to the other realms that are in sight, currently with only my adviser being risen up and the previous militia that guarded the fortress as skeletal emotionless husks, and eventually the more horrifying creatures that live in this domain and other territories will eventually unravel the monster that exist herein, now my scholar is calling and suggesting we make our momentum at once.

The current territories that surround us are another Darkest Dungeon, one with a weaker connection to the eldritch forces in the north, but surely this territory I will claim in the name of all my heritage. Past the cove is land of endless sea that eventually domes into the cold lands with a island that carries a horrifying tree in its central apex.  To the south is home to that Ancient Temple, of the "Light" and all of righteousness and purity, compassion is rarity in the fevered pitch of battle as my forefathers bear for me to teach. Now I must work on growing and cultivating all the regions to work under my servitude on the grandeur of the Ancestors, as all will serve.

[Supernerd]

ATTENTION

I feel that the rules regarding combat are not quite clear enough, so I will take the time to explain the proper method of attacking again.

There are two kinds of combat methods. Normal, and Stealth.

For normal attacks, you need to declare the following things:
- Who you are attacking
- What your objectives are
- The troops that you are sending into battle
- Any other important things that need consideration
- The tactics that you intend to use. (Some of the finer tactical details that would not be obvious to enemy scouts may be sent to the GM, such as contingencies for possible enemy counters)

For stealth attacks, you need to declare the following things in thread:
- Which tile your stealth action will be on.

Stealth actions are much less effective than the non-stealth actions. On a stealth attack (outside of your established territory) your action will typically be less than half as good as a normal attack. Because of this, stealth attacks should be reserved for indirect sabotage and espionage. Its a bad idea to send your entire army on a stealth attack unless your whole army has some advanced stealth abilities that would make it possible to conceal a whole army.

[Unraveller]

-- Fallen Stars --
The Daal'Gaks march north.
(NM)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Something deep within Gaar'Vul resonates, it grants an image of the ancient world; billowing out from heavy cloud above shining bright were flaming, specular stones. They hurdled with abandon, shaking the world with their strike and wiping away all manner of city and civilization from days long far gone. The kindred nature of this image sends the Daal'Gaks hurdling north just as well, with some deep knowledge that they must unite the meteors with Gaar'Vul, coming both from the very same heavens.

The Daal'Gaks hope to traverse the mountains north by snaking through deep tunnels and caves midst the foothills. Squeezing through narrow passages or open crags, it is an environment most familiar to them, albeit with a sky above. This resonance and desire for the unknown stars beyond causes the most tribes to gather to this task, thus;

1,500 - Crundle Tribals (375 Value)
500 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers (125 Value)
150 - Trogs (150 Value)
95 - Gru'Beks (71 Value)

With tribal scouts delving the most cunning of passages through the massive Mount Nasty upon their noble Trog and Gru'Bek steeds. The Daal'Gaks intend to surge through the great crags into the meadows beyond and reach the source of their astral connection. Along the way they will no-doubt encounter luminous horrors. By their sheer nature of dwelling below, the Daal'Gaks will likely hope to lure what monsters lurk to the north through the depths and dark places of Mount Nasty rather than hope to slay them upon the open fields below the lights above. Lest they be left with no choice. If ultimately it seems they are utterly outmatched, the Daal'Gaks would most desire to steal away back to the Great Hole with whatever hauls of the Astral Stars they can, provided they even make it that far!

So too might they encounter a great beast, the gryphon. In its strafing runs they would most certainly have to take great shelter within caves, tunnels, or deep nested crags. But, if chance arises, the black-riders upon their hundred thick slug mounts, might direct them to spit globs of their mucus upon the large flying creature, hoping to tear it down by cementing wings and building weight.

-- Chaos Reigns --
The Daal'Gaks march west.
(MW)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A band of tribesmen break from the barking words of their chieftain, believing themselves more than capable of striking out on their own. A sentiment that runs deep through the Crundle hordes during their first days of their nation. Hardly being an orderly bunch, the group enjoys new sight after new sight. Most curious of which perhaps would be the ice they first lay claws upon. In these moments the small band of gremlins dance, and slip, and skate across the ice sheets without a care. Enjoying the pure moment of it all as they lay their implements of war to rest. Eventually good things come to an end, this is a time of action after all! And if they hope to leave their name upon the world, they must conquer and expand into the vast red sea of their dreams!

Something strange, an island amongst frigid water beckons them on, calling to the gibbering little creatures. With their knapped flint spears, the Crundles would attempt to pick away at the ice sheets after witnessing their properties. Hoping to float across into the lake, for the dancing colors and redwood bark of the great tree beyond appears too much a muse for them to wait.

447 - Crundle Tribals (112 Value)
228 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers (57 Value)
11 - Trogs (11 Value)
5 - Gru'Beks (4 Value)

If indeed they do somehow manage to make landfall, this particularly bright band of Daal'Gaks will no doubt be famished. And thus will be compelled to hunt a few handfuls of Chaos Butterflies to roast and crunch upon, perhaps catching a few groups with their limited supply of Gru'Beks. Avoiding overwhelming groups of them where possible. All while blissfully unbeknownst of the infinitely powerful dryad who calls the island home.

-- Thru Caverns Dark --
The Daal'Gaks march south.
(SM)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Daal'Gaks know not of ancient cities long past, of whirring machinery or complex components. Of great societal mega-projects or vast networks of lives all intertwined regardless of distance. Perhaps if they had, perhaps if in their infinite wisdom the longhorns divined the insurmountable distance between themselves and what lay beyond, they would hold up in their vaults for time everlasting. Such wisdom however does not prevail within the Crundles.

Much like through to Mount Nasty to the north, the Daal'Gaks seek out subterranean passage into the Scar of the World, perhaps their connects some natural formations of ancient waterways that may connect into the massive valley, a place most reminiscent of their home.

1,250 - Crundle Tribals (313 Value)
300 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers (75 Value)
100 - Trogs (100 Value)
100 - Gru'Beks (75 Value)

If indeed the Daal'Gaks are able to find passage into the Scar, they will first secure it, thinking perhaps they can create a sister settlement to their holy land. And, all going well, hope to use their Gru'Bek mounts for the sake of secreting long trails of bumpy cement up the walls of the valley. Carrying many a Crundle up along the sides in doing so, while also giving the rest a reasonably secure footing to dig in their claws climb up behind. And eventually come to gather on or around the Old World Viaduct, in their efforts of exploration. If during so, they come upon any Gobborgs, it won't be all that much different than the old subterranean wars for dominance. Well, in this case it's machine against Crundle.

As such, the Trogs are vanguards, they would attempt to batter the advanced goblins with their muscular physiques, and piercing mechanical hides with their ice-pick like tusks. All while the Crundles they wear keep away nasty attacks with their longspears, and screen foes from a far with slung stones. If worse does indeed come to worst, the remaining Daal'Gaks flee for their lives back through the tunnels from whence they came, or at least to a defensible place amidst the deep scar.

-- Murk and Mire --
The Daal'Gaks march east.
(SM)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The black-riders ready themselves, coating their warty red bodies in a thick layer of tar, muck, and pitch, protecting them from the mucus of their Gru'Bek steeds. It is not all too uncommon in the deep fungal woods of the vaults below for there to exist vast murky waters and deep filthy bogs. Thus, the Daal'Gaks have decided to split into two distinct groups when crossing the wastes east;

200 - Crundle Tribals (50 Value)
100 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers (25 Value)
100 - Gru'Beks (75 Value)

The tar coated Gru'Bek riders will swim their giant slugs through the infested Swamp of Tears that calls out to them. Deeply interesting in the strange slime they will no doubt come to see, pelting the sentient slime beasts with javelins and stones for the off-chance at destroying or at least warding them away. Perhaps the Gru'Bek cementing mucus has some effect?  Though they will nary fight to the death and waste of their precious slugs if their armaments find no purchase. Meanwhile, a much greater detachment will flood into the ruined Metropolitan Area. Their utter 'curiosity' as one might call it, leads them to do so without much aim, and so the tribal horde would rampage, picking through the long lost city block, smashing or stealing away bits and bobs that they've come across in loose skirmishing bands.

700 - Crundle Tribals (175 Value)
150 - Trogs (150 Value)

-- Back at Home --

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Daal'Gaks continue to refine the fortress Burz'Gaang, utilizing every aspect of their remaining military body to fortify it from the world unknown. Ill omens rumble through the Great Hole as Longhorns gaze upon Gaar'Vul, they witness naught but hardship on the horizon for the Daal'Gak tribes. Can they overcome and grow? Develop as a species? They MUST, should they ever wish to survive this desolate world.

403 - Crundle Tribals (101 Value)
312 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers (78 Value)
39 - Trogs (39 Value)
0 - Gru'Beks

[Failbird105]

Within the center of Clock Tower, the heads of old Earths greatest Magus families, now crippled in number yet just as great in ability, meet. They discuss their plan of action. Though the harvesting of parts and resources from the monsters within the surrounding lands would be important in the production of greater homunculi and Mystic Codes, potentially even key to the summoning of a Servant, should the Throne of Heroes even hold a place in this world, greater forces would be needed in order to combat them, especially the great constructs and monster that reside there. And so, while the more militarily minded divided up the Bobbies for expeditions, the research oriented delved back into their workshops, working to devise a creation to slay these great threats before they began harvesting in full.

Spoiler: London (click to show/hide)

The light grey... everything is the abandoned and largely ruined city, the dark grey lines are highways and bridges, the big blue line is a river, the green splotches are parks, the purple circle around a black dot is the British Museum(black dot) and the Clock Tower facility under the ground beneath it(purple) respectively, and the other black dot lower down is Big Ben and the House of Parliament.

Civilization Name: Clock Tower
Theme: Nasuverse with some SCP and LobCorp elements
Day 0:
Home Territory: Old London
Other Territories: -
Owned Strategic Resources:
Mystery- The Supernatural, boiled down to a science. Magecraft, Phantasmal Beasts, Abnormalities, True Magic, all of this is 'Mystery'. Each individual spell, magical species, or magical being of individual renown, has its own amount of 'Mystery'. More Mystery trumps less Mystery. And most importantly of all, the more commonly understood any individual Mystery gets, the weaker it gets, and the more legendary something is, the stronger. This is what makes Mystery so 'limited' of a resource, and the Mages of the Clock Tower so important due to their understanding of the general principals behind Mystery as a whole. Anything that can be considered 'supernatural' can be achieved with Mystery, but the greater the power, the more Mystery involved, and thus the more secrets to guard. (+100/turn)

Current Troops:
2160 Bobbies

Heroes:

Stored Resources:
0 Mystery(100 gained, all spent)

Recruiting this turn:
154 Bobbies

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Bobbies (2/2): Bare-bones Homunculi with bodies covered completely and entirely in cloth, dressed up in a vague parody of old-school officers uniforms. They don't have armor and only have a simple baton as a weapon, but their impressive durability and strength allows them to equal properly equipped soldiers regardless. Cost: 1
'The footsoldiers of the Mages Association. Originally repurposed from criminals, the Changing of the Sun has made storing and transporting captives far more effort than it's worth. As such, they now simply use homunculi. Bobbies bodies are fully wrapped from head to toe so as to prevent even a single ray of sunlight from reaching their skin, because with the Changed Sun, such a thing could have spelt disaster. Thankfully, said disaster has not taken place within this world, but for traditions sake, the wrappings stay.'

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Clock Tower (18/18): A fortress at the center of Clock Towers territory, and the capital building of the Mages Association 'kingdom'. The building is centered on the British Museum, and the titular Clocktower included within. The entire facility however, is underground and vast. This makes it incredibly difficult to properly lay siege upon, because Clock Tower forces know its layout far better than outsiders ever could. Any form of magical defenses will have to be manually added over time.
'The primary headquarters of the Mages Association, the greatest fortress on Earth. Period. In its prime, the Clock Tower would have survived even if the entire planet had been destroyed beneath it. Sadly, much of what it was has been lost when Wizard Marshall Zelretch used the last of his power to transport the Clock Tower and much of the surrounding area of London off of the Earth after the Sun Changed. All of the Magecraft used in its defenses has been broken by the transition, and its lower reaches, those that nearly reached the Reverse Side of the World and allowed us to mine resources from the corpse of the great dragon Albion, sadly did not make the trip with us. While we expect Clock Tower remains the greatest fortress in the world, we will need time and effort to restore it to its former glory.'
Adds 'Clock Tower' Fortress

Reinvent Slayer Doll Schematics(2/4 Points, 100 Mystery): Sadly, much of the original research put into making Clock Towers original Automata Assassins was kept very strictly secret, due to the nature of Mystery. As such, while we possess much of the basic schematics, the magecraft involved that allows their claws to be unnaturally sharp and the eyes of observers to simply pass over their bodies must be rediscovered, and we must do research into allowing them to function on artificial brains instead of ones directly extracted from human beings.

[Screech9791]

Spoiler: OP-00110001 - Attack on the SM ruined metropolis (click to show/hide)

Troops Commited
800 Ancient Impalers
500 Ancient Choppers
750 Ancient Maintenance Drones
1 Robotonk Prototype

Total: 2050 troops (1675 total value), 1 hero

Objective
Harvest any organics in sight, especially the gobborgs, as their mechanical parts could be repurposed for warform construction, and we can always use the rest of their bodies as bioreactor fuel.

Retreat Conditions
Any of the following events must happen:
-75% of all infantry units (impalers/choppers) go offline due to critical physical damage (OOC note: "death" wouldn't really make too much sense for a mechanical unit, considering it was never alive or dead in the first place)
-80% of all maintenance drones go offline due to critical physical damage

Strategy
The units will be separated into 10 subechelons; with each one being comprised of 80 ancient impalers, 50 ancient choppers, and 75 maintenance drones. Each subechelon will typically stay within a mile or so of eachother, and if any noticable casualties happen, any two subechelons that are under 55% of their original strength that are close to eachother will merge into eachother. They will move to the locations indicated via the map in these plans; and will be labeled as SE1, SE2, SE3, SE4, SE5, and so on for short. Subechelons 9 and 10 will remain as reserve subechelons, which will enter the AO if at least two of the 8 initial subechelons go offline, and the Robotonk Prototype will be deployed within SE1; and half of the drones within SE1 will be escorting the Robotonk Prototype; clearing obstacles in the way of the tank for easier movement in the city ruins.

Should the War Machine be encountered, any units nearby will leave the immediate area and continue sweeping the rest of the city. The Arcology and anything on the other side of the Scar of the World will not be swept for now.

If any other kingdoms are spotted, no mercy shall be given; we must teach them to fear their machine betters.


After this strategy has been uploaded to one of our semi-autonomous general drones, the operation will begin. We have a continent to harvest.