...Communal Housing was a mistake. Should have just concentrated on Apartments.
I mean, probably
yes, though if we'd put the same number of dice on Apartments we wouldn't be any better off. The thing is, we have a big Housing buffer, so we're not actually in a hurry to complete anything, it's not really a problem, it's just a project taking 3-4 dice to complete when we hoped it would take two. That happens sometimes; it's the flip side of us sometimes rolling well and getting a project in two dice when the median expected result was needing three.
My preference is that instead of doing 2 dice OSRCT and 1 die Ablat, you put 1 more die on Orcas to have a higher chance of finishing rather than leaving it then the remaining 2 dice on shells or URLS. 2 on URLS has a good chance of finishing it, plus the blurb for it says it helps with artillery + supporting arms problems. This is me saying that I don't think that tube artillery itself will solve the ground forces' artillery problems enough and extra help is required.
I don't want to keep putting off OSRCT any longer if I can help it, or it won't be ready in time for 2059Q2 or Q3 when the warlords hit us.
And I'm willing to accept the Super Orca rollout not finishing next turn and us needing a fourth die to get the job done. We are
very limited in the number of Military dice we can expect to spend before the warlords dogpile us; we need to spend them strategically for the maximum possible effect.
Now, putting the ablatives die on shell plants or URLS is something I
did consider carefully. It's not a bad. To do URLS I'd have to free up +5 Resources, I think, but that's not so bad, and it's something impactful we could do despite having very few dice to work with.
But ablatives is ALSO impactful, and we have a good chance of clearing another phase with two dice. If we're not willing to invest a die this turn, I don't think we're going to be willing to do
anything about it before the upcoming war, and I think Ground Forces would greatly prefer that we did. Whereas doing anything meaningful about the Shell Plants takes so many dice it almost
has to wait until next turn unless we abandon the Super Orcas entirely for now.
