Infiltrators (Surraruthru, Tryll)

[Yuthirin]

'I recommend against splitting the party. Bad things happen, yes? Let's divide our forces into threes. We can place an air elemental in charge of one group and a water elemental in charge of another.'

[Anastasia]

Quick note for Yuth: Iddy's home from work early due to sickness. He nyquiled out and is sleeping, he might be awhile.

[Yuthirin]

I saw! I might go home too. This nonsense with clenching half my face all day is not gonna fly.

[Iron Dragoon]

Considering Canderella just died as part of a group, I don't think splitting up is really the wisest choice. That said, I dunno who we would put in charge.

[Anastasia]

Up to y'all IC, so discuss it.

[Iron Dragoon]

'I agree. Tryll, can you maintain a telepathic link between them and us so they can report and update us?'

[Yuthirin]

Feel free to respond IC to my statement, Iddward.

[Iron Dragoon]

I sorta did, but let me clarify.

'That works. Send them off to scout things out and we'll respond in force where they need back up.'

[Anastasia]

As you talk, a message comes from Tepen.  'To all officers: The unknown threat that killed Canderella has tentatively been identified as an assassin devil, also known as a dogai. If you need a refresher on dogai lore, send me a message and it will be provided. It has abilities above that of normal dogai.'

[Iron Dragoon]

'Fun. If it strikes, I hope our defenses are able to withstand its initial strike. Either way, we best continue.'

[Yuthirin]

Let's move on then?

[Anastasia]

Okay, your forces are as follows:

Tryll, Surraruthru, Bubbles
Shredstorm
77 courre scouts
50 earth elementals of medium size
50 water elementals of medium size
12 earth elementals of large size
50 phase spiders of large size
46 mineral quasi-elementals

How are you splitting them? Don't need too many details here, just a rough idea's fine.

[Iron Dragoon]

I propose this:

Team 1: Tryll, Surraruthru, Bubbles, 17 Courre, 10 Earth - Med, 10 Water - Med, 10 Phase Spider, 10 Mineral
Team 2: 30 Courre, 20 Earth - Med, 20 Water - Med, 6 Earth - Large, 20 Phase Spider, 18 Mineral
Team 3: 30 Courre, 20 Earth - Med, 20 Water - Med, 6 Earth - Large, 20 Phase Spider, 18 Mineral

That leaves us with Team 1 being 60 bodies and Team 2 & 3 108 bodies each. Tryll and Surraruthru are pretty significant force multipliers, so even though we're 60 bodes, we're probably stronger than the others. We're also going to be the primary reaction force for the other two groups, so we need to be a bit smaller and faster than the others.

For team 1, I figure the Earth elementals will be the slowest of us, so they can serve as our rear guard and primary battering ram. The water elementals will serve as containment forces, using blasts of water to knock people around and flooding to restrict movement. The Phase Spiders will be our harassment forces and our route cut-offs. The Minerals I'm not really sure about; I haven't really messed with them or know what they're capable of. I figure our standard combat tactic will be to use the water elementals and phase spiders as our scouts and herders. Corral people up and let the Minerals and Earths be our stone fist, with the phase spiders as our teleport around and catch the runners and fast response line reinforcements.

Teams 2 & 3, I imagine working basically the same way but with less flexibility. The Earths will serve the same purpose, but the Larges will allow for more containment/channelizing via things like stone walls and collapsing tunnels.

Input, feedback, suggestions? I'm not really sure where to put Shredstorm.

[Yuthirin]

I don't think we'll need the shredstorm in our group. Too much Blam. I'd say send it with team 2. The rest looks good.

[Iron Dragoon]

Second post of tactics:

To be honest, meta-gaming tactical knowledge applying, tunnels/sewers are a f'n death trap. I would straight up have the Earth and Mineral Elementals create sharp rocks or obsidian shards and the like and the water elementals create geysers to feed them into and turn the entire tunnel into a giant sandblaster type of effect with the Earth and Mineral elementals closing off tunnels either with walls, boulders, or by collapsing them to keep them locked into the geyser path, with the Phase Spiders and Courres running as scouts and clean up. Realistically, that would basically shred literally everything down there, but I dunno how much of that realism you want to apply as just handwaved logic or if you want to let us have what amounts to an I-win tactic.

It essentially turns all three teams into a much larger Shredstorm effect.