Please do not break the tally system any more. It is poor and easily confused. You only need to copy the first line of the plan with an X. You deleted the - signs.
Isn't the chinese conflict likely a multi year project? It feels like a conflict spanning the majority of a continental mainland should take 2 or 3 years.
I point you to the Turn 10 Rant. The civil war might drag on if the dice go crazy but due to how it started and us intervening in year one with all other major forces taking a wait and see approach it might even end this year with a knockout punch to the eunuchs. The plan was for a long war. The dice didn't agree from my understanding.
The target will be chosen in a seperate mini turn vote. I just didn't want to change the plan name since people started voting on this.
They rarely do. All the more reason to put everything behind a move in mainland china to rap up the war so quickly India doesn't have time to accomplish anything and our martial has as many details and options as possible.
If the conflict drags out for 2-3 years then it means we've failed somehow because the board is supposedly stacked hard against the Eunuchs as their war effort was described by Slayer as constantly catching on fire and grossly incompetent. The longer duration also means that other major players have time to react and intervene as well, so we're aiming for a quick conclusion to prevent that. All this points to ideally a quick end to the conflict so our plans are geared towards that.
Sorry for quoting you twice on this, just wanted to mention a few other arguments I forgot:
Interesting. How about an option to feed the Eunoch's false information?
The problem with that is that it requires either flipping a section of their own network to give the false information validity or already having a trusted asset in place. If our network was already working at full power (with Shadow Administration done) I would take it as a possibility. Even the general intel sharing with our allies will require to activate Shadow Administration just to compile the useful intel out of the raw reports.
Actually @Slayer Anderson, just how many prisoners did we take from New Heaven anyways? I was kinda unsure so I went to re-check and the details of this report slightly ambiguous to parse: it starts by saying most of the combatants largely died off, but it later emphasizes that "so many survived" due to the lone psionic caster's surrender.
I don't see it as such a stretch. We had ninja's emigrate into the chinese federation. It's entirely possible some of them infiltrated either positions in the Eunochs employ(we know at least one did) or jobs in there communication network. Either one would allow us to manipulate information the Enoch receive.
One of the options I'm toying with along with a sabotage option.
Turn 9 Rumor Mill under classified reports spoiler:
Huh, okay. So we captured 4 prisoners and the reason Lelouch described it as "so many survived" was just him being sarcastic, I guess? So all 4 of the prisoners are psionic casters right? Since the casters were deployed as their own group IIRC.
Also while catching up I found this: we promised a public appearance for the Area 8 Governor back in Turn 8 before all the craziness with the Conference and now the civil war, so that's something to keep in mind in the future. I imagine we'll use a Diplo action for that, maybe paired with a re-attempt for "Controlling the Narrative". It's kinda amusing to think how wildly beneficial this deal has grown for the Governor as Lelouch's fame continues to rise... though it might be canceled if we fail and get disowned lol.
No? If it's standard procedure to have zero survivors each and every time New Heaven clashes with an opponent (because, you know, martyrdom is good for the soul or something, according to them), four would be a lot, actually.
It is a matter of preference. With so few options including the "fluff" actually makes it easier see what the chosen actions are about and not just the potential rewards. Voters should only use the plan name for voting so being able to read the actions without going back to the turn can actually be an advantage.
Turn 8 was about setting up our attendance in the conferences. Turn 9 was about pacifying the governors (since we were snubbing them for so long and it was the last chance).
So we might get a Personal action for a vacation in Area 8 to relax with our entourage next turn but as it will be a Personal action it will most likely lack the rewards a Diplomacy action doing the same thing would give us. Like the Crowns shares from the A Cruise action which was an option to make good on our deal.
That makes more sense, thanks for clearing it up for me. I had trouble contextualizing the intended meaning.
Ah you're right, my bad it was Turn 9 so we've got still 2 turns to fulfill our obligation. And yeah, that's another reason we should use a Diplo action instead.
