Oh, you would absolutely get fucking pasted in that tournament, but it's still worth popping in over there to broaden your horizons and get some perspective.
I think we'll do better then expected, especially if we start preparing for it now.
I it going to be a smellier structure to this one? Like a bunch of minor contests at the start, a melee then duels and maybe a joust? Are we still going to be in the junior division for it? (Actually, isn't the entire tournament just for young people?).
If were assuming the tournament is in 3~ years, on paper we're going to have 273 zeal to spend and 90 base training plus 9 for only light stuff. This is on paper, because were likely to get extra training from our master and there is the possibility of extra zeal being gifted to us.
If on our first turn we raise Hama to 7 (and soma too so we wont have problems with our Soma being overtaken )well gain another 12 zeal per year (plus training which might be more important) to spend for the next two years (so 24) it wont pay back for its cost by the time of the tournament but its good for our long term growth beyond it and the extra +10 to our Hama field is going to carry some weight.
If we do get Hama 7 we'll have a budget of 297 zeal (+5 that we have in reserve), 98 base training and 9 light revelation training.
Hama 7 and soma 7 will take 96 zeal, the next big thing is rushing the 4
th decade, its quite literally the best boost we can get, 20 extra fervor to spend every turn, 50 extra armor, +capacity speed and initiative, another armor trait. If we want any chance of placing well in that tournament the 4
th decade is a must, so that will cost 174 extra zeal for a total of 270 zeal.
Leaving us with 32~ just enough to take psych 6 but getting tactics 5 and horsemanship 4 for 24 zeal and leaving us with reserves for the tournament seems like a better outcome.
Of course the above might change if we get a big lump of zeal (is there a zeal market by any chance? Wandering knights selling their zeal to help pay for their armor, the church accepting "donations" and bestowing a "reward" upon the faithful?) we might also increase our grace through communion but the increase is zeal would be low enough to realistically only increase our reserves.
Training wise is harder to say, we're likely going to invest quite a bit into our light revelation (beyond the free training we gain), we'll need to see what severance has.
But I think mastering GKB (and perhaps black scratch too) is a must to make it a big threat against 4
th (and possibly 5
th) decade knights. If we gain a big training boost (could we perhaps arrange something with our family for extra instructors? Or would that be insulting for Audery master?) I would like to perfect it if nothing more then the fact that at perfect it can quite possibly one-shot most 4
th decades knights and maybe a few early 5
th decade ones (because the continental knights don't have Hama) but it would only be possible if we gain like another 50% on our base training at the minimum, (so we'll still have 40~ training left for other stuff).
By yeah, training wise things are a lot less clear cut then with zeal.
I will note that you're probably not going to find much better at the bigger tournament with regards to Carolingian cultivation aids specifically. It is going to be at least 90% Norsemen, after all.
Ummm… what? isn't the bigger tournament a continental thing? that's what I remember being said about it.
If it isn't, I might need to revise a few plans (well training wise, zeal is pretty much the same no matter what the 4
th decade is just too big of a boost).
