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Re: Erfworld 67, page 61
As others have said, I agree that Ansom jumped in the center hex thinking the trick was veiled units. It's been stated that going around the fort would leave them without any movement points. At the very least I believe it's true for the Gumps and Elves.
I wonder if Ansom and his motorcarpet has any move points left. If he has enough to jump through the circle of Dwagons he might make it to safety in the column. Vinnie could or could not join him.
Tarfu and the rest are gonners if this scenario plays out though, for sure.
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Re: Erfworld 67, page 61
Ansom's actions in this comic just made me laugh so hard.
He's impaled on a spear that he should have seen coming but is too arrogant to think would be there, and instead of pulling himself off, he just digs it in deeper.
Amazingly amusing.
I'm also imagining Parson's inevitable - and inevitably devastating - reaction to another tactical trick he had no idea he could have used, and the implications that can have for his war plan.Last edited by Peptuck; 2007-07-11 at 03:30 AM.
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I expected Ansom to scout the surrounding hexes once he noticed the central one was empty... Then he'd found the lake. BUT he didn't. Man, that guy's a really snotnosed big-head. It will be interesting to see the Tool <-> Hamster conflict on how to handle this. I hope so much Parson can convince Stanley of whatever he's planning...
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Here's an interesting thought I just had that would explain Ansom's actions: he think Stanley's an idiot (rightfully so). Protecting his assets is well within what Ansom perceives as Stanley's capabilities, but tactical trickery like this is beyond him.
However, something as bluntly useless as veiling wounded units in the middle of a giant, unveiled ring of dwagons is something that, in his mindset, Stanley is certainly incompetent enough to try at.
That's why he was dead certain the wounded units were right there in the middle of the fort.
"Of course! They're veiled! Only Stanley would be stupid enough to do that! Attack!"Last edited by Peptuck; 2007-07-11 at 03:51 AM.
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"Ghost martyrs of the Sapphire Guard: ATTACK!"
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2007-07-11, 03:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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I wonder whether Parson will now be able to veil the wounded stack before Jillian finds it... or would he have to wait until it's his turn again?
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Don't adjacent uncommanded units have to attack on their turn? Does that mean Ansom is deliberately making all 5 dragon-filled hexes attack him at once?
Maybe he has a special "Win one battle free" card and is looking to take out all of the surrounding dragons in a single battle? Because otherwise it seems like a very dumb manuever to force combat with 5 hexes at once.
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ugh there goes any hope of trying to redeem Ansom as not being an arrogant fool. Only hope left is that he charges through the dragons and back to the column.
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The issue comes in terms of resources and methods,
Clearly Stanley works on the principle of a caster for every problem, he has confirmed a Croakamancer, Dirtamancer and the Tripartate board team, what else does he have as magical assets?
that being a trait, Ansom presumes the use of magic where all else is confused. why his opponent has a penchant for spell slingers,
Parson on the other hand dosnt really work with the magic in that great sense as he didnt know, this is throwing off Ansom's responses, same as if Stanley was known for doughnuting defences then hiding the real force a few hex's away somewhere hard to get to Ansom would have searched for that when in this reversal situation the forces are really in the fort veiled, Stanley has become predictable but its not Stanley leading the military, note that the thought of a new warlord hasnt crossed their minds,
Parson is unlikly to suffer a reversal of fortune unless the tool blunders as the strength of parson's plan is to FORCE ansom into a reactive passive roll by taking the initative and keeping it,
Surprise column attack - stalls the march Forces the hunting party
Fort is a fake - Strands the hunting party without a prize for their efforts
Ansom now has to bring his Air support to him or its going to hell in a handcart
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Oh, the irony!
Ansom puts himself in danger because he doesn't have all the facts.
Then he puts himself in further danger because Parson doesn't have all the facts.
Yup, sounds like war alright.The stone is weak.
Wash it away.
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2007-07-11, 04:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Klog #4 actually says, "Stacks without a leader are forced to autoattack when in contact with units from non-allied capitals." That appears to mean whenever they're in the same hex, like how each of the six dwagon wheel hexes ate one of Vinny's bats.
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Maybe, maybe not. The fact that Parson is learning in baby steps what the world will let him do and what are GK's specialties, might continue to make it seem to Ansom's eyes that Stanley is just making a few shrewd moves.
But the revelation that you can use the Eyemancy setup to cast Foolamancy spells that would veil your troops is not THAT big of a snarl for the turns that have already passed. As said before, veiling something from someone who has to rely on scouts and hats anyway is slightly redundant. Rather, the real trick is what Parson is going to do with his assets now.
So far, we've seen: Mathamancy/Luckamancy, Foolamancy, superior knowledge of the battlefield, air dominance (or soon to be), the most heavily defended base on the Erf, and the ability to think outside the box. If I were in Parson's place, I'd give Ansom (or his eventual replacement) the most horrible runaround they've ever had the misfortune to experience. Make them doubt anything and everything they've relied on. Up is down, left is right, black is white, evil is good! Make them hesitate. Make them do risky maneuvers. Make them use their trump cards, that only make things worse. The string of "victories" is only the beginning. The Donut of Doom is only a foretaste. If before we've given Vinny suspicions, now give him outright paranoid nightmares. You can let them suffer, but play to WIN, Parson.
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I think that Ansom can't push through because he doesn't have enough move. Simple as that. I think that Ansom and Vinnie will be captured and that the battle is going downhill all the way from here for team Jetstone.
However,
SpoilerOur dear toolship is on a quest to conquer the world and the battle for Godwin Knob is just part 1, yes? What's to say they won't have need of Parson there, especially as he's already proven himself more than capable
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I think if Parson knew about the weiling he's plan would be different.
He could have used all dwagons to destroy all sieges in one turn, veil them, and destroy more normal troops the next turn. Or even ambush the fliers.
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We've not specifically seen such rule mentioned, or demonstrated. We've only been told that stacks without a leader must auto-attack when in contact with non-allied units, but the term "contact" is vauge. It could mean at rest but adjacent, or it could mean "in motion and attempting to enter the same hex." The latter case however is all we have seen with leaderless stacks. As far as stacks with leaders, they have the option even if in motion of aborting their move rather then attacking.
In fact, it remains to be demonstrated (to my satisfaction) that leaderless stacks can move to attack without (somehow) getting orders from somewhere. And since Ansom knows he himself can't just issue orders without some mechanism (hats, Archons, whatever) he'll assume Stanley can't either.
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Anyone who thinks Ansom is just acting dumb at this point has not been paying attention. He has thought of something, to be honest I don't think we have enough information to see what it is.
We know ansom has no lookomancers, but it said nothing about foolomancers. The trap is to leave ansom vulnerable and far away from reinforcements. I think he is going to get some veiled reinforcements from somewhere, so the healed dwagons attack him (stanley will not allow anything else), then the dwagon stack will get a shock when they try to take the arkenpliars.
Either that or we really don't have enough information. Basically if the dwagons take out ansom next turn, capture the pliars part 1 is over in a huge anticlimax, and I have too much faith in the writing for that to be it. Something HAS to be up.
Edit, I just thought of something else :D. Ansom just veiled his main stack and the stack in the middle is some sort of an illusion. Basically he is using the same trick backwards, which kind of fits the dialogue, this is a great trick, hey why don't I do the same thing!Last edited by Etheric; 2007-07-11 at 04:48 AM.
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As said before, veiling something from someone who has to rely on scouts and hats anyway is slightly redundant.
As for the "He relies on hats!" that was an entirely different brainstorm. The hats have nothing to do with the scouts, except that they could use them to report back at full range. They have everything to do with the fact that Ansom's lines of communication are restricted. Thus, isolating him away from the column severely limits his command options and thus his ability to react to what he's found in the Donut. Or rather, not found.
He could have used all dwagons to destroy all sieges in one turn, veil them, and destroy more normal troops the next turn. Or even ambush the fliers.
I think he is going to get some veiled reinforcements from somewhere
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Wow.
The Gobwin Knob victory has just become trivial. Stanley would have to go far out of his way to boop up his own side's chances at this point.
The only way for Parson to win this is to turn the coalition fractions against each other. That is, if GK survives the imminent onslaught.Bad to the Bone!
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Not necessarily. Firstly he left Jullian and the archerons in reserve. Secondly he needed FOREST units to attack the dwagons. ANY unit can defend, particiularly if teh warlords get turned ot dust by the arkenpliars.
Veiling the air units now gets him nowhere. Parson knows he has them, and where the were (right where he was planning his ambush), will have been watching them (he's not dumb either) and will notice if they have suddenly "disappeared."
I do wonder if foolomancers can make illusions of units as well, in which case the other alternitive is ansom is cloaked and there is again nothing in the centre hex as I stated above. ALso if they can cloak units and make illusions then there is no way to know units have been cloaked.
Fun. It is cool that we are back to where we were a few strips ago. ITS A TRAP, but is it a trap where there is nothing in the middle or where there is a stronger force than expected in the middle?
Unless you really believe part 1 is almost over?, with what is frankly rather an anticlimatic ending.
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At least a few don't seem to assume the same truths, so I'll just state that I'm assuming these truths:
- Most of his forest attack force is out of move.
- No other units, aside from Jillian+Gwiffons, are in range to help.
- He doesn't have the hats to contact the column anyway.
Are we even sure that he knows what Stanley has done with the thinkamancer trio?
I'm doubtful. It makes things more exciting that way.
And it's just beginning to dawn over marblehead that Stanley is well and truly different from all the earlier encounters involving aforementioned 11 cities.
Assuming Ansom doesn't pull a Parson, he's left to calling in Jillian, to help make his little defensive post in the forust (ed note: this erfworld spelling is getting to me...) a tough nut to crak... (ed note: oh dear)
Alternately, he, Vinny and the bats may have enough move to make it back to the column, or even punch through the thin wall of dragons, at the cost of leaving the forest units behind.
Also, who has noticed that Vinny shows only one tooth at a time, but not the same tooth, in this page alone? There was a debate before over him having only one tooth, but this... this probably deserves another discussion thread. Or not! Silly running gags...Last edited by Demented; 2007-07-11 at 05:31 AM.
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*Sigh* I get annoyed when people declare something that has not even happened yet to be "anticlimactic". This boils down to nothing other than "The writer could never find any way to make this thing interesting."
It betrays a lack of imagination and a lack of faith in the writer both.
If you were to call something anticlimactic, please do so on something that has already been seen in the comic, and which didn't satisfy your sense of drama. You can't just dismiss something a version of something that hasn't happened yet as boring, thus indicating you personally can't think of a way it would be interesting.
No, I don't think that something anti-climactic will happen, because so far the writers of Erfworld haven't disappointed me. But *my* ideas on what might possibly be anticlimactic and *your* ideas of what would definitely be anticlimactic can differ vastly.
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Believe it or not we all sort of predicted this. Several people had suggested that Parson might have used a foolamancer to veil the units, but I know I for one had replied that even if it were possible (I thought it unlikely because it is so powerful), Parson had never had an opportunity to learn about that trick. And that is exactly how it developed in this episode. Well, I thought it was funny.
Oh, and once again Parson gets extremely lucky, in that his ignorance did not hurt him and arguably helped. The first time was talking to Misty, and now this. Parson is leading a charmed life.
Time for a rant. For the love of all things 2-dimensional, will people please stop thinking that adjacent hexes are in combat? They cannot even see each other! Combat only occurs when enemy units share the same hex.Illimir orc monk avatar by yours, truly. He seems to be looking for his cigarettes.
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...Wow. Nice job as always...
No General would willingly charge into the middle of a foray, thereby allowing himself to be surrounded, without a plan. Ansom yells out "Battle Formations!" That could mean that formations can give bonuses. I am an rpg guy, not a wargame / stack guy, but it seems to me we are in for an Rourke's Drift type of situation. Ansom's forces are surrounded and put themselves into a British square. With the heroic Ansom in the center, the units all gain bonuses (known and unknown) and at that most climatic moment, Ansom works out the Arkenpliers for a truly epic fight....but then i'm just guessing here...lol
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It occurs to me that we don't know whether the triniteyemancer could, in fact, veil the wounded dwagons. Presumably they do have some ability to veil units, since a previous use of that ability is the most straightforward way for Ansom to know that they have a Foolamancer and for Wanda to know that he knows*, but this may be beyond the limits of that power.
*That said, another possibility is that the Foolamancer was captured from one of the factions now coming after Stanley's hide.
If Parson's idea is to capture rather than croaking Ansom, it should be easy -- just remind the Tool that it will give him the opportunity for personally gloating in Ansom's face.Last edited by SteveMB; 2007-07-11 at 05:54 AM.
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This has been discussed. Someone pointed out that the illusionary units they use to populate the board back at Stanley's tower are not very realistic; they would have to do a lot better than that in the field. And let's face it: in magic it is a lot easier to hide something than to make a convincing illusion that something is present when it is not.
Charging into the center was a great tactical blunder. Ansom himself was probably within range of the real location of the wounded dwagons, but he just burned two more move and may not be any more. He did have the option of joining up with Jillian and the archons and assaulting the real wounded hex but that option might be unavailable, now. He is truly booped if he does not croak those warlords this turn. I still think his best option is to give the arkenpliers to Jillian--who should have enough move--and send her against the dwagons, with the gwiffons and archons supporting. As long as the warlords are re-croaked the pliers will not be lost.
If it ended on this strip I would agree. But it doesn't so I don't.Illimir orc monk avatar by yours, truly. He seems to be looking for his cigarettes.
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I´m the only one who thinks that ansom and vinnie may have more move points than normal infantary? Bothe of them are flyers
They know that their infantary cannot retreat, so they went to check the veil thingie...
But i think they can return to the column safely, but not without losing all his forest units/archers...well...that would be enougth to let the dwragons runn freely over the column...
Just my point of view...
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How would the veiling be balanced, since hiding units from visual inspection is fairly powerful, does it only work if 1 or 2 units can see them, if the units don't attack, or can it only be done to a very few number of stacks at once?
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To the people who say that Ansom dosen't have hats to report with:
Look at the large, black thing on vinny's head...Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse. But the only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs.
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"Gaslighting", that's called.
Make the object of your affections begin to doubt what is real, or otherwise. It's hard to do well, but from a single person up to an entire army, it IS possible...
(Think of all the fake radio traffic in the first Gulf War, making Saddam think they were coming in through Kuwait, while everything with move was doing the "Hail Mary Pass" movement...)
I'd have Ansom looking at his own people as traitors by the time he gets to GK...
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