I weighed the options and when you get right down to it, I can't deny Sara Goldblum this one. Poor woman's suffered enough. Especially suffered enough having to hide things for the sake of the plan.
[X] Make it known to the world that you possess the Declaration of Independence, and invite the Free City of New York to Chicago to examine and confirm the authenticity of the document, as well as discussion possible restoration efforts. +8 Legitimacy, massive opinion boost with FCNY, large opinion boost with most polities within the former borders of the United States, negative attention from Japan, Russia, and Russian client states.
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We may want to reserve one action for providing support for Toledo to keep its Troop Quality 2 divisions in play instead of them disbanding them due to the strain of keeping them active.
Well, good thing my plan budgets two free AP to doing whatever the heck people want, then. I just tentatively penciled them in for Diplomacy because it seemed likely.
I don't think we neeed to.
We've been told that Toledo will have to demobilize some of their troops if we don't subsidize them. The problem is that Toledo certainly can't support three whole divisions, and
we ourselves aren't equipped to support
six.
Didn't poptart say that there is no critical system or excess benefit ? The high roll goody is new but a gift, not a mechanic.
I also remind everyone we have rerolls, so, dedicating more AP to low DC checks is wasteful.
@PoptartProdigy told us early on that if we got, say, three total successes on an action that only required two, that we'd get an additional goodie of some kind as a benefit from the action.
If we still have rerolls, then you're right, overbudgeting AP does become wasteful though.
I want census office done before more food because without it we don't have any real idea if we are surplus or not, we are already having difficulty right now with this.
Increasing food production isn't going to be wasted effort, no matter WHAT our population turns out to be.
Infrastructure is merely assessing our infrastructure, not actually doing it (that's later) so I doubt Midwest will do much to help and frankly it's worrying me. We have a huge dearth of information there and could be missing something critical because we just don't know. If anything we should do infrastructure before Midwest, since knowing what our transportation looks like lets us better coordinate with others. I expected the Midwest to lower the subsequent actions, but not the initial evaluation.
We've been directly told otherwise as I recall it.
