Well he is a military hero. She was a military genius. Literally Genghis Khan level.
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Ymaryn Successor Quest (Paths of Civ AU)
Well he is a military hero. She was a military genius. Literally Genghis Khan level.
- Location
- The Deep Blue Sea
Genius Khan
- Location
- Huezil
Babby don't Khan me, no moreGenius Khan
If only there were some non-military way for the Khem to boost their prestige at our expense that is acceptable to our nobles.
Xantalos
Turtle-Speed Writing
...that actually seems like it could work.
Turn 23 (1616 Andyidh Dyadorn) Results
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Turn 23 (1616 Andyidh Dyadorn) Results
-1 Treasury, +1 Prestige
+1 Treasury
News from Hathytta:
The Hellas have been adequately contained. Diplomats have been sent to negotiate a peace.
[+0 Influence]
News from Western Wall:
The troops on the Western Wall Front managed to advance this year, despite the supply issues. Outlying portions of Western Wall now once again answer to the Melek.
[+1 Influence]
News from Txolla:
While the Highlanders remain contained, they come dangerously close to breaking out several times.
[+0 Influence]
News from Thunder Plateau:
Dafydd's advance has mostly stalled out due to the chaos in the rear echelon. Some land was taken, but very little.
[+0 Influence]
Incite Unrest, Black Sheep
Needed: Irrelevant, Authority
Late in the year one of the Thunder Plateau's cities, Teheryn, has risen up in rebellion. They have managed to galvanize and control much of their surroundings in their rebellion. Teheryn is also one of the Plateau's centers of industry, with one of their three major ironworks facilities.
[2/2]
Press for Peace, Hellas
Needed: N/A, Narrative
Your diplomats return from Hellas with an enraging treaty for your perusal. The Hellas are weak, you could easily crush them were you not distracted by the Black Sheep and the northern rebels. Yet they know that they are the straw that can break the camel's back, and have made a number of absurd demands. Reparations, and favorable trade deals. These are the demands of victors, not of those who have lost almost every battle!
[] Accept this humiliation [-1 Treasury, -.1 Income, -1 Influence, -3 Prestige]
[] Reject this absurdity [War continues]
Counter Espionage
Needed: ???, Rolled: 82+73-5=150. ??
The Shadow King has set up an organization to identify and subvert foreign spies. With this organization, foreign interlopers will have a much harder time ruining your plans
[???]
Train Thunder Plateau Administrators, Elective
Needed: 31+. Rolled: 30-5=25. Failure
Work continues in electing and training new administrators.
[1/3+?]
Spreading the Warding, Amber Road
Needed: 26+. Rolled: 13-5. Failure.
The inhabitants of Amber Road prove… concerned with the idea of deliberately exposing themselves to demonic spirits, however weakened.
[1/4]
Construct Warships, Harmurri Gulf
Needed: 31. Rolled: 70-5=65. Success.
Construction of new warships Completes.
[+1 Naval]
[2/2]
Seek Loan, Pamplona:
Needed: 16+. 95-5=90. Success.
The King, or queen?, of Pamplona is entirely willing to give you a loan. Your own court, however, are perturbed at this showing of weakness.
[+1 Treasury, -.1 income, -1 Prestige, -1 Influence]
Negotiate Trade Deal, Styrmyr
Needed: 16+. 78-5=73. Success.
It is a bribe to keep them out of the war, plain and simple. It is blindingly obvious to everyone what you are doing, and how desperate you must be to need to do so. The thing is? It works. The Styrmyr happily accept the deal and reaffirm the ancient friendship between the two branches of the family of The People.
[Styrmyr +1 Opinion, -.1 Income, -1 Prestige]
Personal: Relax with Family
[-Stress]
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Rumor Mill:
War in Kus!: Kurna continues to lose land to it's neighbors. If this continues much longer, they might cease to be a major power entirely.
Pamplona's Queen Triumphant: After years of ratcheting tension with her nobles, the King of Pamplona faced a rebellion from her vassals. She crushed them utterly within the span of a year.
Magyar Expands Influence: The Magyar Samraaj has gained several new vassals this years, all via diplomacy rather than conquest.
One Hour Moratorium
[X] Plan Oshha
-[X] Authority: Press for Peace, Hellas: You need to do something to get the Hellas off your back. Find out what you would need to do to get them to back off. (Narrative%, 1 year)
-[X] Influence: You are strapped for cash. Other states have money that you could use. Ask them if they would be willing to float a loan. (85%, +1 Treasury Status, -.1 Income, -1 Prestige and probable -influence)
--[X] Pamplona
-[X] Influence: Negotiate Trade Deal: In the cutthroat world of commerce it is said that for one to benefit another must lose. Even so, it might be worthwhile to formalize trade deals with various powers. (85%. 1 Year. -.1 Income and +1 Opinion, pay 1 prestige to give a favorable deal to a less prestigious state, may be taken multiple times with different targets, possible opinion effects on third parties)
--[X] Styrmyr
-[X] Personal: Relax with Family (-Stress)
-[X] Authority: Press for Peace, Hellas: You need to do something to get the Hellas off your back. Find out what you would need to do to get them to back off. (Narrative%, 1 year)
-[X] Influence: You are strapped for cash. Other states have money that you could use. Ask them if they would be willing to float a loan. (85%, +1 Treasury Status, -.1 Income, -1 Prestige and probable -influence)
--[X] Pamplona
-[X] Influence: Negotiate Trade Deal: In the cutthroat world of commerce it is said that for one to benefit another must lose. Even so, it might be worthwhile to formalize trade deals with various powers. (85%. 1 Year. -.1 Income and +1 Opinion, pay 1 prestige to give a favorable deal to a less prestigious state, may be taken multiple times with different targets, possible opinion effects on third parties)
--[X] Styrmyr
-[X] Personal: Relax with Family (-Stress)
-1 Treasury, +1 Prestige
+1 Treasury
News from Hathytta:
The Hellas have been adequately contained. Diplomats have been sent to negotiate a peace.
[+0 Influence]
News from Western Wall:
The troops on the Western Wall Front managed to advance this year, despite the supply issues. Outlying portions of Western Wall now once again answer to the Melek.
[+1 Influence]
News from Txolla:
While the Highlanders remain contained, they come dangerously close to breaking out several times.
[+0 Influence]
News from Thunder Plateau:
Dafydd's advance has mostly stalled out due to the chaos in the rear echelon. Some land was taken, but very little.
[+0 Influence]
Incite Unrest, Black Sheep
Needed: Irrelevant, Authority
Late in the year one of the Thunder Plateau's cities, Teheryn, has risen up in rebellion. They have managed to galvanize and control much of their surroundings in their rebellion. Teheryn is also one of the Plateau's centers of industry, with one of their three major ironworks facilities.
[2/2]
Press for Peace, Hellas
Needed: N/A, Narrative
Your diplomats return from Hellas with an enraging treaty for your perusal. The Hellas are weak, you could easily crush them were you not distracted by the Black Sheep and the northern rebels. Yet they know that they are the straw that can break the camel's back, and have made a number of absurd demands. Reparations, and favorable trade deals. These are the demands of victors, not of those who have lost almost every battle!
[] Accept this humiliation [-1 Treasury, -.1 Income, -1 Influence, -3 Prestige]
[] Reject this absurdity [War continues]
Counter Espionage
Needed: ???, Rolled: 82+73-5=150. ??
The Shadow King has set up an organization to identify and subvert foreign spies. With this organization, foreign interlopers will have a much harder time ruining your plans
[???]
Train Thunder Plateau Administrators, Elective
Needed: 31+. Rolled: 30-5=25. Failure
Work continues in electing and training new administrators.
[1/3+?]
Spreading the Warding, Amber Road
Needed: 26+. Rolled: 13-5. Failure.
The inhabitants of Amber Road prove… concerned with the idea of deliberately exposing themselves to demonic spirits, however weakened.
[1/4]
Construct Warships, Harmurri Gulf
Needed: 31. Rolled: 70-5=65. Success.
Construction of new warships Completes.
[+1 Naval]
[2/2]
Seek Loan, Pamplona:
Needed: 16+. 95-5=90. Success.
The King, or queen?, of Pamplona is entirely willing to give you a loan. Your own court, however, are perturbed at this showing of weakness.
[+1 Treasury, -.1 income, -1 Prestige, -1 Influence]
Negotiate Trade Deal, Styrmyr
Needed: 16+. 78-5=73. Success.
It is a bribe to keep them out of the war, plain and simple. It is blindingly obvious to everyone what you are doing, and how desperate you must be to need to do so. The thing is? It works. The Styrmyr happily accept the deal and reaffirm the ancient friendship between the two branches of the family of The People.
[Styrmyr +1 Opinion, -.1 Income, -1 Prestige]
Personal: Relax with Family
[-Stress]
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Rumor Mill:
War in Kus!: Kurna continues to lose land to it's neighbors. If this continues much longer, they might cease to be a major power entirely.
Pamplona's Queen Triumphant: After years of ratcheting tension with her nobles, the King of Pamplona faced a rebellion from her vassals. She crushed them utterly within the span of a year.
Magyar Expands Influence: The Magyar Samraaj has gained several new vassals this years, all via diplomacy rather than conquest.
One Hour Moratorium
- Location
- France
- Pronouns
- She/They
Honestly we have to take the deal. We can always whoop their ass later when we're not as busy. But this is a cheap price to avert collapse.
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I don't like this, but we can afford it and the prestige buys us some more time to defeat the Black Sheep and get ourselves ready for the Khem. The lost of Influence is annoying, but we should hopefully be able to get it back in good war rolls once our logistics stop being so strained. Beyond that, we got until 1620 to improve our Income again while this simply means we lose out on the Treasure we gained from the loan this turn. We'll need to improve our Treasury again next turn, but we can afford to take this deal and I'm not sure we can afford not to take it.
Well, while we again show an astounding tendency to roll below 30, the important parts of the turn seem to be going well.
While it stings that we lose 2 influence if we take the deal, we have gained 1 and the loss of 5 prestige should pull back the doom clock nicely.
I say we take the deal.
While it stings that we lose 2 influence if we take the deal, we have gained 1 and the loss of 5 prestige should pull back the doom clock nicely.
I say we take the deal.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Acting War Chief: Where do we pull the reinforcements from my lord?
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- Location
- Pennslyvania
- Pronouns
- She/They
What reinforcements? Where do you propose we get the men? And do that without straining our already strained logistics?
If we get some prestige instead of losing it, we just might hit 69 prestige next turn and trigger the Khem.
We are not ready for this next turn or turn after that.
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Besides, we would need another influence to move the troops in the first place, and with our logistics stressed nearly past its breaking point we could actually lose on multiple fronts.
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- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm going to make this analysis with the assumption that we'll accept the peace deal with Hellas. We will lose 1 Influence overall, but we will have 2 Authority and 1 Influence to work with next turn with the potential to overwork if we really need to do something.
With Hellas out of the war and our prestige still lower than the Khem, we should be able to do well in the other fronts. I'm thinking that we focus on 1 Turn actions. I'm thinking of getting another loan to counter the cost of the Mass Levy next turn and maybe selling guns to the Berba to get some money since we are going to be antagonising the Khem anyway. Beyond that, either peace talks with the Black Sheep or maybe one of the Intrigue actions since according to the QM on Discord, we will be getting some new ones against Western Wall in the upcoming turn thanks to the spy network we established.
With Hellas out of the war and our prestige still lower than the Khem, we should be able to do well in the other fronts. I'm thinking that we focus on 1 Turn actions. I'm thinking of getting another loan to counter the cost of the Mass Levy next turn and maybe selling guns to the Berba to get some money since we are going to be antagonising the Khem anyway. Beyond that, either peace talks with the Black Sheep or maybe one of the Intrigue actions since according to the QM on Discord, we will be getting some new ones against Western Wall in the upcoming turn thanks to the spy network we established.
TBH looking at the flavor text around pamplona loan i dunno if we are gonna cause a legit civil war from keeping our prestige down....
[X] Reject this absurdity [War continues]
from what aranfan said earlier the khemetri will give us a chance to reduce it by favoring them or we can declare the war for king of hill.
[X] Reject this absurdity [War continues]
from what aranfan said earlier the khemetri will give us a chance to reduce it by favoring them or we can declare the war for king of hill.
We literally have no reserves, and our logistics are strained to all hell. Moving people from any front could end pretty disastrously.
I still do not think peace talks with BS is a good idea currently.
Who?
We have just signed peace or are at war with all of our neighbors.
And Khem's trigger is us doing too well, not badly.
Fortunately, we're almost out of people who can attack us, the only ones left are the Khem and they'll only do it if our Prestige spikes.
Selling weapons to someone.
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Who? We know when the Khem are going to attack and we made a point of securing our border with Styrmyr. There is no one else to make a surprise attack.
According to past statements from the QM, we only lose Influence from taking a loan the first time and after that, our people have had time to get comfortable or at least tolerating of the idea. That said, we can sell weapons if we are willing to make some enemies. I'm thinking of selling to Berba since the Khem hate us anyway and it might distract them a bit if the guys on the other side of their border get some guns.
On the other hand it might give them another Casus Belli and they might jump on it.
Us taking the crown of Kings of the Hill is one Casus Belli, I would be loath to give them an earlier one.