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Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)

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[X] Plan Big Brother and Little Sister

Ramble said:
Huh. Pirates. Might want to start on that soon.

Does the navy have a mothballed yard? Seems like it would be a quick and cheap way to get us a patrol boat, a fixer upper for sure, but any hull is better than no hull.
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Unless the hull has a hole in it, but I agree, some recent mothball ships could be useful
 
Deadly Snark said:
Hang out with your favorite people, which includes Cornelia, by breaking our word sworn to Cornelia to help her little sister when we are called upon? Which she literally just did?
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That is a great point and one which I completely overlooked. Though I am going to completely disregard both because I am interested in seeing the consequences of Teenage Lelouche being an idiot but also because I'm pretty certain my plan will not win.
 
Dream Logic said:
That is a great point and one which I completely overlooked. Though I am going to completely disregard both because I am interested in seeing the consequences of Teenage Lelouche being an idiot but also because I'm pretty certain my plan will not win.
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I mean Lelouch's diplomacy is 8, so he's somewhat incompetent in this whole "relations" thing.
He's more suited to intrigue and manipulating people than making them like him right now. Plus teenage stupidity lol
 
[X] Plan Big Brother and Little Sister

Now to watch Schneizel idly comment on all of Lelouch's actions for that last 3 years over a few games of chess.
 
I wonder what kind of pirates we're dealing with.

If it's just a bunch of bogans marauding about in some halfway motorized skiff armed with rusty secondhand kalashnikovs, our requirements will be different from if they're a foreign sponsored crew armed with rocket grenades operating from a refitted boat.
 
[X] Plan Big Brother and Little Sister

I foresee this Plan ending in Lelouch turning Euphemia's grand debut into a Black and White masked ball. With Schneizel and Lelouch manipulating the party-goers into place for an overly complex game of Chess.

Lelouch: "Well done, Q-1. All tasks at hand have been completed."
Kallen: "Q-what? All I did was tell the servers to bring in more of those little hors d'oeuvres..."
Schneizel: -Smirks from across the room as he gestures to Kanon disguised as a server to spill red wine on Clovis's white outfit.-
Lelouch: "Schneizel...! Damn you!"
Kallen: "...I think I should have turned down your invitation to this party...among other things...."
 
I have read the arguments. And I remain of the opinion that no matter what we gain by associating with the Diplomacy specked frontrunner for the throne, in the long run he will gain far more. Better a slower start now than turning a late-game enemy into a juggernaut.

All but decided before I even read the update, still I shall try.

[X] Plan Rise of the Youth
-[X] Nunnally
-[X] Euphemia
 
Angelform said:
I have read the arguments. And I remain of the opinion that no matter what we gain by associating with the Diplomacy specked frontrunner for the throne, in the long run he will gain far more. Better a slower start now than turning a late-game enemy into a juggernaut.
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I think it'll be ridiculously hard to out diplo-manuevour Schneizel to gain the throne, yes it'll be even harder if we're perceived as in his camp but it's already so difficult the marginal increase isn't that important. If we want the throne our path is over his corpse, not by peeling away supporters.
 
[X] Plan Big Brother and Little Sister

Good, nothing exploded that required us addressing preventing us from having our game with our big brother.


Thomasfoolery said:
I think it'll be ridiculously hard to out diplo-manuevour Schneizel to gain the throne, yes it'll be even harder if we're perceived as in his camp but it's already so difficult the marginal increase isn't that important. If we want the throne our path is over his corpse, not by peeling away supporters.
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I feel obligated to say we don't have to be the one to kill him, but I do agree that our only way we can beat him to the throne is for him to be outright out of the running for the throne. Maybe sterilizing him would work too, but that has a good chance of our only chance to get the throne still being through his corpse.

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@Slayer Anderson you said a bit ago that we don't really need a piety advisor anymore, but if we don't get one we're a long ways off from the extra action they would provide us. Is there an action to acquire a second piety action available and we just don't realize it, or is a preemptive nerf being applied so we don't snowball into being overpowered?

Also, just to clarify mechanics, what is the threshold we need to cross to get an extra action like we have in Intrigue? I'm assuming have our stat over 20, but that's just guesswork on my part.
 
Blonddude42 said:
I feel obligated to say we don't have to be the one to kill him, but I do agree that our only way we can beat him to the throne is for him to be outright out of the running for the throne. Maybe sterilizing him would work too, but that has a good chance of our only chance to get the throne still being through his corpse.
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Basically the issue isn't just Schneizel, though he's the most obvious part of it. The issue is that we're young and therefor less established, half-commoner and therefore less established, and not good at pressing flesh and therefore less established. So I don't see us getting the throne clean outside of real longshots or the more magic parts of the setting breaking heavily for us. The most realistic path seems to be establish both a impeccable military reputation, a first class intelligence operation, and get Cornelia to support us. Then once Charles dies declare our claim based on military backing and kill off enough of the elder candidates on the field or through assassinations to make it stick.

Then when the dust settles we say we were just following in Daddies footsteps so why all the whining?

That said thinking about it now it really all depends on how long he lives, if Charles manages something like another 20 years of relatively strong reign then everything changes and our initial disadvantages are much more mitigated. I was originally thinking he'd likely be dead in around 10 years or so, but that wasn't something the GM said.
 
Ramble said:
I wonder what kind of pirates we're dealing with.

If it's just a bunch of bogans marauding about in some halfway motorized skiff armed with rusty secondhand kalashnikovs, our requirements will be different from if they're a foreign sponsored crew armed with rocket grenades operating from a refitted boat.
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From the Naval act, we took they shouldn't be that heavily armed.

Slayer Anderson said:
Although much less... eventful than your adventures in aeronautics, and Jeanne ensures this is the case, your naval training is very informative.

The largest portion of your education is spent familiarizing yourself with the different classes of ships and exactly how they work in concert with each other.

At the moment, you'll likely be limited to recruiting and manning lesser classes, though these are more agile and arguably better for hunting pirates.

Regrettably, you likely won't need any aircraft carriers, battleships, or anything larger than a few cruisers unless the pirates near Australia really are far better equipped than you'd been lead to believe. Even if that should be the case, it's likely that you can 'borrow' a flotilla of larger vessels from a friendly command if the need becomes really pressing.
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iirc a previous update these are various locals and foreign pirates too. Worst case scenario there's some sort of pirate lord using an ancient super battleship hidden in the area.
 
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