>>376435
Maybe we could have Styx put together some wall-mounted defensive cannons. Automated ones. Then they just blast down anything that approaches any part of the castle except the front door and isn't a minion.

>>376437
Canon golems.

Cannon too.

Infestation? How many of these things are we talking? We don't want to get swarmed that's dangerous no matter how strong or weak they are. Which is also good to know. Scan!

what about having a slime go out there and crawl down it's throat? melt it from the inside.

Go to a brothel, buy some hookers and use them to lure them away to some close by tower. They like girls and high places.

Overlord 2011/12/31(Sat)01:55 No. 376456 ID: 281eec
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"Styx do we have any weapons to take them down?"

>Styx: "Had. We lost them after the attack. The castle had a stock of Exploding Net Cannons for just such an occasion. To make them would take me some time.."

You scan the.. Bird thing.
---------------------------

Screecher Lv5
HP:70
SPD: 4(flight)
ATK: 15-20

Special:

Howl: Can inflict either Confusion or Paralyzed.
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How annoying..

>"SCREEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee"

How very annoying..

>Meagan: "That isn't good."

"What?"

>"That call. It basically means 'Fresh Meat'. Though not in the eating sense. Any minute now th- yep see."

She points out the window. There's a swarm of them approaching the castle.

>"Honestly I never thought I'd see one up close. Though really now that I think about it I'd rather not see them up close."

You can hear the screech coming from different sides of the castle.

>>376456
Quickly, someone get me some prostitutes, some duck tape, a kite, and a carriage. Then meet me in the courtyard

AWW HERE IT GOES

>>376456
You have at least one sufficiently powerful minion. Have her decimate a few of them with ease.

Actually, have anybody that can do more than 70 ranged damage per round start culling them, assisted by two-person groups of anybody who can do at least 35 ranged damage per round.

ask if the screech is magical in nature or if earplugs can prevent it.
if we engage battle mode it should limit their number and let us fight them a couple at a time.

Ugh, how big is the swarm? We may need to pull out our ranged units and fill them full of holes. Do we have some defensible areas we can fire from and not be attacked?

Overlord 2011/12/31(Sat)02:29 No. 376465 ID: 281eec
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It seems you can not make any moves against them without actually challenging them to a battle. How odd. The court surrounding the castle would suffice as a battle field but the problem is there sheer numbers.

You summon Shana.

"Shana, I need you to fight these Screechers."

>"!! Anything for you my Lord!"

She sees one from outside the window and leaps back into a wall, shivering.

"??? Is something wrong?"

>"I-I-I-I"

"???"

>"M-my Lord I c-can't f-fight! N-not them!"

"? Why not?"

>"I can't I just can't!!!"

Is.. She afraid?

>>376465
Call her back inside
"Now, please explain."

awwww fuck. she must of had an... 'encounter' with them before.


hmmm.... open the front door just wide enough they can get in. have a few get in then slam the door shut behind them and fight the ones inside.have styx jury-rig a door slammer.

Ask her if they are somehow dangerous or if she has an... issue, with them.

This is an opportunity to test your new body's capabilities. Listen, we need to lure them inside, into hallways to separate them from their numbers. Open and close doors, put them in cages and use Lenion to help with traps, stuff like that.

Lenion probably has dealt with these beasts before. She could be a good adviser on what to do if our demonologist can't come up with anything.

secondary suggestion
Walk into the battlefield and inspire her. Tell her this is why you dislike using fear, it can make even the most powerful weak. It is now time to show the power of loyalty and affirm her that you will help her fight off what she fears most. These beasts will not have a stronger control over your unit then you do, you will not allow it.

Shout to the demon Hawks that these are your women. You will not let them have them. And our high castle too.

Third Suggestion
Tell Styx to power down the hover thing and lower everybody.

Bring Shana back inside and ask her to explain.

Have Alice take shots at them in the meantime.

no one is outside, she saw one through the window.

Well maybe Styx can whip up some kind of earplugs that reduce the effectiveness of their howls? Any chance you could make some exploding/fighting puppets with Silva?

Then would it be possible to lure them into fighting at a choke point in the courtyard or entrance hall? If you could poison your weapons and use bestow flame spells beforehand then that'd be awesome.

>>376517
yes, have a puppet outfitted with bombs and then when they swarm it, it self destructs.

Check what exactly the number of enemies is, compared to the number of allies we have. Most of us are over Lvl 5, so we could possibly overpower them without losing in numbers.

The bomberdoll idea is also nice.

considering what the kind of reaction probably implies, we should call shana back. also we should look into wiping these things out on species level. but for now we should find out how many are out there. also ask if we have firing points on the wall that would let us safely snipe them.

Overlord 2011/12/31(Sat)20:07 No. 376671 ID: 281eec
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No no you can't fight someone outside of a actual staged fight. That's just how it works, don't ask why. They may be special occasions but this is not one of them.

You take Shana outside.

"What's wrong?"

>"The birds... My lord I can't attack... I can't oh god please don't make me fight them"

You hear something shatter.

>"OHGODTHEY'RECOMINGTOPECKMYEYESOUT!"

Well she is obviously got a phobia... so she should stay out of that fight. Send her to hide in the barracks and bring in your other troops

BIRDBIRDBIRD

... Hey, it's breaking the rules! Inform it that it cannot attack our windows outside of a staged fight. Then punch it in the face through the window..

punch it to start up the battle. if the punch connects the start firing the gun through the hole.

Think we can lower the castle and then rise it quick enough that we smack all these buggers with the ground? Might spook them.

Also, tell everyone to brace for impact if that happens.

>>376671
Attack the bird through the window. It attacked outside of combat so that rule is broken.

>>376671
Explain to her that they peck something else with something else than their beak, they don't go for eyes. But you won't force her, but christ man, just go stand up for your women damn it. Get 'em caught in the hallways, seperate them and turn the entire castle into something similar to the battle screen zones we pick from in different lands. You know the "4, 5, 8, ?, Boss" selection screen?

To do this, just use your most physically attractive women and lure them into different hallways and force the group to split up.

Get Shana somewhere safe. She's very stressed out and we should let her rest.

Can we talk to the hawks? We might be able to deal with them without violence.

If not, have our forces retreat to lure them into the castle. Their flight is too big an advantage in open air.

>>376709
>Explaining away a phobia

NOPE.

Phobias are irrational sources of fear of a specific object that severely and irrationally inhibit function in prescense of the object.

Being afraid of fire because it burned you is trauma. Being afraidof fire because it will burn your soul and destroy everything you love and oh god why is there fire get it away make it stop is a phobia.

I have said it on this board once. I will say it a THOUSAND TIMES. You cannot make someone overcome a phobia, even briefly, with reason.

>>376709
...Uh, I'm sure saying that won't help her phobia (in fact, I have to wonder if you're trying to troll her). Also, see >>376742

Upvoting luring the birds into the castle. Get all the girls into tight places, restrict their flight.

And let's get started on some explosive net cannons building. After this's dealt with, we should get comprehensive defenses built (gods know what other demonic pests there are out there). Styx should know what kinds of defenses we need.

>>376747
Upvoting lure them into a specific, single part of the castle, downvoting using multiple locations, or using the girls as bait, which is a horrible idea.

They've already broken a window, so lure them in there, then take them out as they come through. Hell, maybe they'll cut themselves on the glass.

>>376742
>>376747
I didn't think of it as a phobia, though yes, I did just want to freak her out a bit more and see her reaction.

I only suggested using the girls as bait because that's really the only thing they'd go for and splitting them up because they have massive numbers. I know it's horrible, but it'd be effective, especially if we can divide them into smaller, manageable battles. I mean are we just going to punch them all to death en masse in the battle grid? I'm sure they'd fill every square on the screen!

>>376766
except they can't, the battle grid will be our ally for this encounter, forcing them to fight in smaller numbers.

or we could call everyone to the window, the one square choke point. we do not want to scatter when facing Superior numbers.

If we're gonna initiate combat, +1 to window choke point.

if we lose units they just respawn here. I don't really see the challenge.

Anonymous 2012/01/01(Sun)10:35 No. 376787 ID: fc22d7

Window choke point isn't a bad idea, though it could backfire (with the other birds breaking through other windows and then surrounding us). I think we should just cluster in the most defensible location in the castle. But as for the limited numbers... this could turn into a major battle of attrition, you know. Imagine a battle with replacements popping onto the battlefield to replace the ones we kill.

And let's not forget this's the demon world. We will want those resurrection rings on our human units.

I agree with getting in a defensible location that has no windows whatsoever in the room to defend in. Rather than have several fighting us at once, reduce it to 1 or 2. Maybe even 3 is fine.

We could hole up in the Teleporter Room. If we need to flee, we can teleport to the Slime Village and regroup to take back the castle.

>>376787
This is basically the right idea.

Fight using the window as a choke point for now.
I don't think it will work in the long term, as we have other windows. Once they start to break in other places, we should pull back to an easily-defended room.

We're not letting a bunch of horny batmen drive us out of our fortress.

what about nix strips naked and dumps her bucket of acid on herself? they try to grab her and their feet melt off.

Overlord 2012/01/01(Sun)19:42 No. 376870 ID: c91e2b
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At that moment you hear windows smash at other points in the castle.

Before you do anything you hear Meagan.

>"My lord we are now in a state of Siege. You'll need to engage the enemy in battle like this. It's basically going to be a Castle Defense battle."

"Castle Defense?"

>"Yes my Lord. As it stands the enemy is now attacking from 4 different points in the castle so you must split your troops accordingly. You will only be able to command one group personally, whichever group you decide to place yourself in, and the rest will fight on their own. In a Castle Defense battle you don't need to worry about anyone dying other then the group your in. If the group you are not in loses the battle.. Well they'll survive. After that whoever they couldn't beat will go against your group."

"How many enemies will each group fight against?"

>"Enemies usually fight in groups of three. Usually. Also you must consider who you are fighting. If, for instance, we were being attacked by a large group of angels and you put a bunch of demons in one group and paladins and healers in another the angels will ignore the latter group and attack the former more."

Okay.. So you need to split off your troops into 4 groups with you in one and be prepared to take on three Screechers.

want at least a tank, offense, and healer in each group if we can. need to count shana out because she is paralyzed with fear.
unfortunantly we only have two healers so they should go in the group with the lowest hp. think we, the overlord, are a tank at the moment because we are effectively lvl 10. so our HPs are pretty good. offense are glass cannons, such as ruby and alice.

So... to make sure there is an even chance for all of our units we need to balance their combat abilities into effective teams while also equalizing how much the birds will collectively want to molest each group.

>>376870
Rose
Emily
Kassandra

Nyx
Silva
Alice

Solaris
Overlord
Ruby

Lenion
Lun
Slime Queen

The closest group goes saves Megan before she suffers trauma, please.

>>376873
Rev Ring on Ruby, since she can die here. Solaris should be at less risk.

>>376882
> In a Castle Defense battle you don't need to worry about anyone dying other then the group your in.

>>376885
>don't need to worry about anyone dying other then the group your in.
>group your in.
>Ruby in our group

Overlord 2012/01/01(Sun)20:27 No. 376894 ID: c91e2b
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Is this good?

Just in case this isn't covered somehow, Shana and Megan should be defended by Overlord group, unless outsiders can completely avoid combat/consequences.

we also had a slime guy I think? send him with one of the all female groups I suppose.

yeah looks good.
>>376897
i guess in team rose?

>>376902
if we can't really put him in anything then his job is stalling. if a team loses he has to jump into the battle and just run around in circles.

>>376894
Those groups all contain at least one hot girl, one tank, and one support character. I'm willing to call that good enough.

>>376894
We need a fifth group to guard the non combatants like megano and shana

>>376910
could be siege mode prevents them from being attacked.

Have Alalia and Leon help protect Meagan and Shana. Alalia will be motivated by avoiding rape (by BIRDS). Leon will be motivated by avoiding rape (by Slime Queen).

Put the fastest runners each in their own group, and then load the Overlord's group up with the top troops. Instruct the solo defenders to flee as soon as they engage, so as to let the Overlord's group deal with the attackers.

So, we should keep at least 2 slimes with Lenion so she has sacrifices.

Meagan doesn't fight, but she can. Leon should be safe enough around her. Alalia can just close her box. And even if Shana doesn't defend herself she can still run and has enough hit points not to be in any real danger. No need to worry about them.

I would also like to suggest swapping Kass with Solaris in our group. Not that either group is more effective either way but... I'd rather we kept a closer eye on her, than risk her going through the failure event. And her summon may end up important if we get in a secondary battle.

>>376986
I'd prefer switching Ruby and Kass, and giving Kass the ring, as that way only one lowHP caster is at risk of dying.

>>376987
The thing about that is Kass' armor keeps her protected from even being targeted, so Ruby would be more likely to receive attacks that get past us. She'd be the best one to hold onto the ring then. Unless... might Charm backfire in this situation? Well even if it did having Kass' magic gives us an edge

>>376997
Yeah, I agree Kass might be better in our group. I was just saying, switch out Ruby instead of Solaris. Less squishy casters running around for us to protect (unless Solaris takes a squishy caster form).

>>377006
I can't see the sense of putting both of our healers in one group. It's bad enough that we're leaving the other groups without these strong units, I'd rather replace ruby with someone less useful here. Or put her in another group and leave it as just us and Kass. Then she gets the ring and that's that. We'd have pretty good odds still.

Alternately, leave Kass where she is and send Ruby there for a rather safe and strong 4 girl group, while the very versatile Solaris stays with us and wears the ring. I think she can change her mode as needed without losing a turn.

Overlord 2012/01/02(Mon)16:39 No. 377044 ID: c91e2b
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You don't think you'll need to worry about anyone else being injured that's not in a fight. You do however decide to switch out Ruby with Kassandra. You current party is now Kassandra, Solaris, and yourself.

All your other units begin their fights.
Silva, Nix, and Alice are being attacked by 5 Screechers.
Rose, Emily, and Ruby are being attacked by 4 Screechers.
Lenion, Lun, and the Slime Queen are not being attacked.

-Placement Phase-

Lenion, Lun, and the Slime Queen go on the offense then. birds don't want to fight them, then they will bring the fight to the birds.


anway, you on the left near that bird, solaris next to you and kass in the back.

Lenion&Slime Queen: Be greatly insulted, and go on a rampage against the tasteless birdfiends.
Lun: Be dragged along.
>>377049
This for placement.

>>377044
What form is Solaris taking this fight? Important to know for placement purposes.

>>377054
http://tgchan.org/wiki/Overlord_Stats#Solaris_Level_6_Gaian_.2A.2A.2A
Archer mode

>>377059
Hmm. Overlord front/center, Solaris left/center, Kassandra left/rear.

We should start combat with Solaris rooted so that she can deal a LOT of damage. 30-40 damage is quite a bit, especially if they can not miss.

>>377044
I think we should back into the right side of the placement area. Kassandra in the corner, with Overlord in front of her, and Solaris to the side. If we give them any room, they will most certainly ignore the Overlord and target the other two.

root seems to turn her into a turret. and then with the point blank power she could do a LOT of damage to anything that gets close.

Overlord 2012/01/02(Mon)18:41 No. 377079 ID: c91e2b
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-Units placed.-

-Battle start. Your move.-

>Kassandra: "M-my lord... Please don't let them win.."

>>377079
"You can trust in me to protect you."

>>377079
Solaris: Root.
Kass: +Accuracy on Overlord.
Overlord: Shoot the nearest bird.

This shouldn't take too long.

>>377081
pretty sure sword is more powerful. so run and sword the nearest bird, after +accuracy.

Overlord: Slash Bird to immediate left
Solaris: Root
Kass: Group Accuracy+

We should take them out in clockwise order.

>>377082
>>377087
Do this, making sure that the Overlord's action comes after the accuracy buff.

>>377087
G Accuracy+ on Lord and Kass, to be more specific. Root means autohit.

we should stick next to Solaris and shoot while she keeps rooting, they don't have a ranged attack so we don't have to worry about chasing them down.

Damn, can we send any message to our unaccosted 4th party? Or how about Megan? If we can have her tell the 4th party to join up with the other two groups - Lenion and Lun go to Silvas group and the slime queen goes to the others. I think we'll be ok here...

Solaris isn't going to attack this round and her attack won't need accuracy, we'd be better off if she did something else. Let's have her summon the trinity beast!

>>377094

Kass has an attack of 0, so you might as well just use a standard +acc.

I think Kassandra should use her turn to cast Group +Def on Overlord and Solaris.

>>377115
Same mana cost. Figure it can't hurt.
>>377098
Sword is stronger and this one could be in range of Kass. Remember, these are birds, they may have faster movement like the gnome.

Also G Acc+ gives +4, standard is +3.

1/2 Overlord 2012/01/03(Tue)19:21 No. 377328 ID: c91e2b
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Solaris uses her skill Root.
Kassanda casts +Acc Group on Overlord and Solaris.
You move and slash at one of the screechers dealing 20dmg.

Overlord 2012/01/03(Tue)19:25 No. 377329 ID: c91e2b
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The Screechers all move.
One slashes Solaris dealing 17 dmg.
Solaris is bleeding.

Kass heal Solaris.
Solaris attack the one Point Blank. With Point Blank.
Overlord attack nearest approaching bird.

kass summon demi angel. solaris attack, overlord attack.

Have the girls move to the bottom corners of the map. Kass heals Solaris and Solaris attacks.

We stay on the inside and keep attacking.

If either of the girls gets hit twice by an enemy, it will probably kill them.

We need to move Kass and Overlord to block most of the birds from getting to Solaris. I want Kass to either heal or summon demi-angel, and overlord to attack if they are in range. Solaris should attack the adjacent one once. That should kill it with the x2 and x1.5 multiplier. If I'm being crazy, and that isn't enough, she should use rapid shot as well to finish it off. We need to give her some breathing room.

wait, did some calculating, point blank shot with root could do 60 damage, add that to overlords 20 and we have over 70. as long as we funnel them so only one can get a hit off at a time we can kill them.
overlord move the one to yur right. solaris attack the one to the elft, kass heal sol. repeat attacking with overlord then sol then heal.

>>377335
This

1/2 Overlord 2012/01/03(Tue)19:51 No. 377338 ID: c91e2b
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Kassandra heals Solaris to full Hp!
Solaris fires her arrow doing an amazing 60dmg killing the screecher instantly!
Overlord slashes at a nearby screecher dealing 17dmg

Overlord 2012/01/03(Tue)19:55 No. 377339 ID: c91e2b
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The screechers move in. Two of them close in on Solaris and attack.
One crit hits dealing 40 dmg!
The other hits dealing 17 dmg!

Solaris is killed..

Restart Battle Y/N? (5 Restarts left)