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- USA
Voting by task or by plan?
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Bathsheba and Irish give me broken links.
Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)
- Thread starter Slayer Anderson
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I'm inclined to accept the option as good enough, +200 isn't amazing, but we have a lot of other diplo options to pursue anyway.
I like Jaeger's department for the hero units, would probably give enough of a boost to make skipping direct to human testing very plausible. And could help with psionic amplifiers and other such tech.
I like Jaeger's department for the hero units, would probably give enough of a boost to make skipping direct to human testing very plausible. And could help with psionic amplifiers and other such tech.
- Location
- SF Bay Area
Irish is supposed to be Dutch from Black Lagoon. If you cut out the url after .jpg the image loads
Although before clicking the link I was originally thinking "Irish" was a reference to Red from the Shawshank Redemption who got his name "cause on account of being Irish" and who had a reputation for being able to get things
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- Location
- Brazil
A reminder for our China plan.
We want that fleet on our side.
- Location
- South of North
Voting by Task.
I'll fix that then. One minute.
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
This part is the one I'm most hesitant about, as all these options seem good. Can you give more specifics on the options available? For example, how crazy psionic Field Medics/Doctors are we talking about? Can they together with advanced Britannian medicine and such put together a soldier with internal bleeding from a gut wound caused by a bullet, and have them walking again in a couple of days?
Also, would the first two take any extra actions or just happen in the background, and how fast? Would they be available for the war efforts at the end of the turn? Part of Jaeger's is obviously a bigger bonus to his rolls, but would expanded Psionic Specialties mean more available projects? And if so, what kind?
"chukle". Didn't notice this one in the draft.
- Location
- USA
No. "Chuckle" is the actual spelling.
- Location
- South of North
The first two choices would need at least one action apiece to fully develop it. Putting them with Jaeger creates more/better options and will propagate their skills more slowly as they're used unless a concerted effort is made.
None of them are really intended to be ready for the invasion this turn, but you could manage to develop about 200 Field Medics/Doctors from either option's initial development actions and, yes, this would add an additional bonus to keep loses from mounting during extended campaigns or operations.
- Location
- Washington
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Some links are broken. The sister and I'm assuming the in-universe equivalent of Dutch?
Now my mind immediately went to "Lelouch is in-charge of the island that most of Black Lagoon takes place on." And think immense shenanigans ensue on the island happens off screen and out of the eyes of nearly everyone but V2 and Chucky. They keep it from Marianne because her crazy ass would go purge the natives while giggling like The Joker if she learns high profile and lethal shenanigans happen in her babies backyard.
Edit: C2 also knows about it, but she has a few Pizza's and a Popcorn machine for the entertainment. The difference between her and the other two is the concerns they have about it. Charles and V2 are worried about Marianne creating a diplomatic incident if she decides to do an ethnic cleansing. C2 is more worried about long term entertainment over immense short term entertainment, and if she has nothing to entertain herself, then she'll be bored. And that's sad.
Now my mind immediately went to "Lelouch is in-charge of the island that most of Black Lagoon takes place on." And think immense shenanigans ensue on the island happens off screen and out of the eyes of nearly everyone but V2 and Chucky. They keep it from Marianne because her crazy ass would go purge the natives while giggling like The Joker if she learns high profile and lethal shenanigans happen in her babies backyard.
Edit: C2 also knows about it, but she has a few Pizza's and a Popcorn machine for the entertainment. The difference between her and the other two is the concerns they have about it. Charles and V2 are worried about Marianne creating a diplomatic incident if she decides to do an ethnic cleansing. C2 is more worried about long term entertainment over immense short term entertainment, and if she has nothing to entertain herself, then she'll be bored. And that's sad.
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ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
We're better off abandoning the result on Controlling the Narrative, because we can do better than +200 Income on that action.
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
derp. very derp from my part.
Hmmm. Gotta think on this some more, but I'm maybe slightly leaning towards Psionic Medical Corps? Because not only would they keep our elite but relatively tiny number of troops and knights from dying so easily and give an additional safety net for our hero units. They would also be extremely useful for keeping alive the Chinese troops and civilians alive, while also making potentially possible for them to give crash course training for additional low-skill medics during the campaign.
On the other hand, you specifically said they wouldn't really be available for the invasion and the first two would still take an action to be fully activated. So if we don't have to think about their immediate usefulness vs the long-term so much... I might go for the Jaeger option, as we are likely to start the animal test during this year, and the human experiments the following. Making just the bonuses useful in the very short-term, not to mention the long-term developments.
Also, am I interpreting you correctly that with Jaeger-option we would still be able to get all the other specialties available (Field Medic/Doctors as well as Assasination), but it would take much longer and require investments in Learning -actions towards that goal?
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Still not working for me.
Hmm... *sees address and manually adds .jpeg to the end.* Well that works, so does png. I'm not nearly savvy enough to know what file type they're supposed to be, but I think the link got cut at some point.
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
Has been working for me without an issue. Maybe its a browser-based problem?
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[X][CCW] You will declare for the Empress.
[X][TOA] China
This is our best point of leverage I feel, so time to throw the dice.
[X][CtN] Accept +200 Income for the Action.
A mediocre outcome, but spending another action to try to improve it doesn't feel worthwile to me. There's a lot of other stuff we could spend diplo actions on, and if things go well in our intervention I expect that list will get even longer.
[X][ARA] Technical Research Staff (Jaeger Expands Psionic Specialties/Organic Experimentation Bonuses)
This is the longest term payoff, but also looks to have the broadest effects. So I think it's the way to go. Especially since between reverse engineering and potentially going to Anatolia, we might not even have the actions free to exploit the short term options in time to get even their truncated benefits.
[X][TOA] China
This is our best point of leverage I feel, so time to throw the dice.
[X][CtN] Accept +200 Income for the Action.
A mediocre outcome, but spending another action to try to improve it doesn't feel worthwile to me. There's a lot of other stuff we could spend diplo actions on, and if things go well in our intervention I expect that list will get even longer.
[X][ARA] Technical Research Staff (Jaeger Expands Psionic Specialties/Organic Experimentation Bonuses)
This is the longest term payoff, but also looks to have the broadest effects. So I think it's the way to go. Especially since between reverse engineering and potentially going to Anatolia, we might not even have the actions free to exploit the short term options in time to get even their truncated benefits.
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I decided 'fuck it' and just physically inserted pictures into spoilers.
It would take a lot longer and eat more actions, but yeah, you could theoretically get all of them if you put these two in a research position where you could push them towards dedicated teaching roles.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
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- Ohio
No, this is the program working as intended. Quite literally a bad idea working well. See, all Wikia sites have the same image file system, ones meant to run on their site alone. If a different computer doesn't have the cookie or whatever if it views a link, the file breaks. Unless you change one word:
This is Bathsheba with and without Vignette, this is Irish with and without Vignette. For whatever reason, Vignette is viewable from all sources, while Static breaks if you view it outside the host site. So every time someone uses wikia for host images, they have to change every link that has "Static" in it. Comes to a point imagehosting album sites are less of a hassle.
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ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
[X][CCW] You will declare for the Empress.
[X][TOA] China
[X][CtN] Reject Completed Action as Insufficient.
[X][ARA] Technical Research Staff (Jaeger Expands Psionic Specialties/Organic Experimentation Bonuses)
[X][TOA] China
[X][CtN] Reject Completed Action as Insufficient.
[X][ARA] Technical Research Staff (Jaeger Expands Psionic Specialties/Organic Experimentation Bonuses)
I'm actually confused by the wording here and what these do. Is accept us accepting the minimal outcome? And Reject us saying, 'no, we want to try again?' If so, it would probably be 'Reject completed action as sufficient,' or 'Reject the completed action, it is insufficient.'
My current reading is that we're rejecting that the completed action is insufficient, meaning that we think what we've done is sufficient enough and we'd get the minimum reward if we picked this. Where as if we accept, we'll get a +200 income for compensation for losing an action, but otherwise get to try again next turn. I hadn't even considered another interpretation until I read this.
So, clarification?
Edit: To be clear, I think I've switched what I thought that phrase said so many times I'm not even sure what I'm saying anymore. Some clarification as to what the question is asking in general would probably help.
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Basically canon Schneizel plan. The problem with this in our solution would be a complete 180 on our household behavior. We basically promised to try and not to go this route. But as that promise would be somewhere after this event this is an acceptable thought. Quest narrative time travel makes my head hurt.
Will be going for this as the OOC question gave helping her a decent chance of success and it would be more likely to cement our household into a loyal team on success. At least when it comes to the potential harem members.
With the OOC question this would both be the harder path and would break our household dynamics. It also opens a can of worms with Kaguya. Not to mention this path leads to a loveless political marriage which is something Euphy doesn't want.
I would have preferred to select targets after the Intrigue round but I can understand wanting to preliminary narrow them before writing the mini turn. Without the OOC knowledge about the Eunuchs messing up this would be hard mode for helping Lihua. On the other hand we would be more likely to find forces ready to aid Xingke to build his army around himself here. And most of the early fighting will be here. So even choosing to aid the Eunuchs here would be the logical course. If helping the Eunuchs can be seen as logical in any way other than cold calculating logic removing the human element.
This is a strange choice if the vote decides to help the Eunuchs. On the other hand it would be a superior choice without OOC knowledge as we suspect the Indian Eunuchs are the weakest IC and removing the resources of India from them would hurt the Eunuchs. It is also the action that would give us more support from Britannia.
Pavlovian training methods seem to be effective on Lelouch. At least to a certain degree.
I'm not sure if this is another instance of quest narrative time travel or something for turn 11 Personal actions. If it is for turn 11 I wonder if a vacation in Area 8 counts since the deal called for either a Personal or Diplomacy action to fulfill it. And if visiting Clovis would also be in line with this due to it being mostly social.
This would free up a Diplomacy action next turn but we really wanted a good PR.
This will cost us an action but we are likely to roll higher and Euphy gained a new SL perk. And SL7 are often rerolls.
A nice touch of world building. I forgot Britannia uses electric guns.
I would say Lelouch is getting to much amusement out of his ability to blend in with commoners (ninja training combined with his psionic abilities) but with all the work he has I think he deserves moments like this.
Not to mention they are amusing to read.
A mostly offensive option that could help our forces but I think the Medical corps better results. We won't be assassinating as often as needing healers. On the other hand when we decide to assassinate all the bonuses would help. I just think we can get those bonuses from other sources (better intel, psionic equipment, etc.).
It will also require a Intrigue action where we have a backlog of projects due to focusing on getting a third action.
This option is better for both unit survival and public perception of psionics. If we ever decide for our psionic program to become semi public then psionic artisans and healers will make the best PR material. Especially to counter the dangerous psionic narrative.
And while there are some Piety actions that we would like to take, this category is more about what we want and doesn't feel as crowded in options. Extra options to deal with setting up a psionic healer program can be managed here.
While the bonuses would be nice, the extra options would most likely be wasted. There is a ton of options we want in Learning and every turn it is a hard decision of what to take. I doubt we could take advantage of them in the near future with the exception of potential help due to bonuses in testing Jeager's tech.
On the other hand there will be bonuses to Jeager tech and we can develop the other options in the future. If Jeager will have medical inclined assistants full time that also have combat experience then when he will start on Psionic Teaching Standards (which requires a campus and finishing the psionic computer chain) we could get the effects of both other options. At that time we might have a third Learning action so it won't be as painful to follow their expanded options.
Hero units are great. Redundancy is always nice even if we need to work on making them fit in. Literaly due to lack of infrastructure. And SL7 perks are rerolls looking at other characters.
That is because Lelouch has that elusive thing known as common sense. He just chooses to ignore it most of the time as it screams at him.
I'm putting money on Irish if such a fight happens.
And if he doesn't stop irritating Lelouch we might just inflict Jaeger on him. Having him ride heard on the mad scientist during a lab expansion project would make him realize Lelouch has the patience of a saint.
Could be useful in building cheaper infrastructure in developing regions. Useful both for taking over Australia and helping modernize China if we manage to get a foot in there. Disaster relief would also help with PR and gain us some favors. Asia has earthquakes in the ring of fire (Japan) and there might be some need for aid in India due to monsoons.
We will really need to focus on expanding our military base and civilian infrastructure. If we ever plan on setting up a psionic/KMF/space research institute it will need a lot of local support infrastructure. A single lab is easy to support. A whole campus not so much.
And now I wonder who got through without being discovered because we waited in constructing the Watchtowers. Hindsight is 20/20.
I will be voting for:
[X][CCW] You will declare for the Empress.
[X][TOA] China
[X][CtN] Reject Completed Action as Insufficient.
[X][ARA] Technical Research Staff (Jaeger Expands Psionic Specialties/Organic Experimentation Bonuses)
EDIT: noticed a hour has passed while I was writing.
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- South of North
I had a couple of people review it and they didn't note any confusion, but I'll try to be clearer with options like these.
The bolded interpretation is correct.
Accept - You get 200 income from now on, the action is complete, next turn do something else.
Reject - You DO NOT get 200 income, the action is incomplete, next turn you can choose to do the action again.
The china votes are in my opinon the easiest, with the Emperor favoring the empress, even if he doesn't do anything, siding with the eunuch would be a really bad idea. Also even if Lelouch doesn't know it, we know that southern china is nearly defenseless and with Xingke we might not only be able to rally the population, but also the only fleet guarding southern china.
Also I'm for throwing the results of Controlling the Narrative out for now, we can get better results than that, and I'm sure that we could get something useful out of it.
The hardest vote in my opinion is what to do with the two siblings on the one hand, I'm not sure wheter research staff, combat training or medical training would be better, but we did promise the brother that we wouldn't use them as soldiers adn we said that medical training like theirs should be used, so I would go with the medics options, if not that the research one, sending them to our shinobi could be seen by the siblings as going back on our word. Not to mention that we already have 1000+ shinobis, so a couple of psyonic medics would be a better choice in my opinion.
[X][CCW] You will declare for the Empress
[X][TOA] China
[X][CtN] Reject Completed Action as Insufficient.
[X][ARA] Psionic Medical Corps. (Crowley Develops Field Medics/Doctors with Psionic Bonuses)
Also I'm for throwing the results of Controlling the Narrative out for now, we can get better results than that, and I'm sure that we could get something useful out of it.
The hardest vote in my opinion is what to do with the two siblings on the one hand, I'm not sure wheter research staff, combat training or medical training would be better, but we did promise the brother that we wouldn't use them as soldiers adn we said that medical training like theirs should be used, so I would go with the medics options, if not that the research one, sending them to our shinobi could be seen by the siblings as going back on our word. Not to mention that we already have 1000+ shinobis, so a couple of psyonic medics would be a better choice in my opinion.
[X][CCW] You will declare for the Empress
[X][TOA] China
[X][CtN] Reject Completed Action as Insufficient.
[X][ARA] Psionic Medical Corps. (Crowley Develops Field Medics/Doctors with Psionic Bonuses)