So its interesting to see that potentially Tim and a GB he aquire could give us the four mages with Recursion after this week. Even just being able to freely fire off solar flare , or have Militia or someone bring in nukes and other nonsense, and not worry about current-wounded or buildings or non-evacuated or anything seems valuable without talking about Ragnarok yet.
Buuut if we think we can spare the time, it is naturally better for Tim to get the two beasts at once, moreso if we are stalling on him revealing himself just yet before he's got personal power toys rigged up.
Really though, seems like just the uncertainty on how Ragnarok conditions work (whether its multiple cooperative conditions, or a tree from worst to best) and how much a single one improves it , is a good reason to try and grab at least one of the prereqs. We might decide to hold off after that because it doesn't look good enough fast enough (or at all), but we might also discover that getting the prereqs could make it a lot more feasible to use. And cartridges would also let us do things like fire off Solar Flare without needing (as much of?) the lengthy chargeup (we needed Temporal Sludge
and Vistas help to drop one on Cadejo originally, and we landed one on the E88 mainly because we had a team of heroes to distract them and they were bunkered waiting anyways).
Can we convince anyone to take Cartridges this time, and just make a compact to stick to evade/distance-firing tactics to try and minimize the need for Blitz-dodging? Or (if SW doesn't mind trades) I'll toss my vote into your favored Tim plan in exchange for switching to Cartridge?
We have this big shiny toy at our disposal, I want to at least try and make it useable.