It's almost like I've been agitating that for several turns.
A version of Helm's Deep that can't be cracked by something silly like an Uruk-hai army sounds pleasant.
And it lets us be like that older sister who slams her door in her younger brother's face when he is being a little dipshit.It's almost like I've been agitating that for several turns.
But yeah, the Badlands is the reason I'm hoping Magwinya keeps Expansion running for this turn, or at least does it herself. I know it doesn't look super attractive from a pure system perspective, but in terms of narrative it's massively useful.
It get's even better when you account for the fact we have some of the best missile weaponry around. Good luck taking walls by storm when their ranged weaponry is longer ranged and far more potent than yours.
"Do you want to be a pincushion today Lowlanders?"
I recall less of you pushing for the Badlands settlement than you pushing for attacking our neighbors and trying to carve out more of the lowlands via war.It's almost like I've been agitating that for several turns.
But yeah, the Badlands is the reason I'm hoping Magwinya keeps Expansion running for this turn, or at least does it herself. I know it doesn't look super attractive from a pure system perspective, but in terms of narrative it's massively useful.
It might even have a net positive effect on Stability. Why? Well if we look at it, it might provide a waypoint for refugees and immigrants to be acclimatized to our culture.
More importantly, it works as another barrier for disease prevention. Note that our South Valleyhome is already doing so. If we instead have a town for that specific use, that helps lessen our people's worries.
Well. Unless it simply opens up our border along a wider stretch, and we lose the ability to funnel refugees through a single settlement and quarantine at all.
Did we? I mean, they're apparently willing to go to war against us solely for not choosing to marry their princesses, so I don't think we did.
I think you are confusing the badlands and the lowlands.
That doesn't really make much sense to me, can you explain your thinking?
What
I'm pretty sure it's entirely possible to reach Lower Valleyhome without going through the badlands, it's just a shitty, awful journey.
Meant lowlands. Wrote badlands by mistake.
I'm pretty sure the path to Lower Valleyhome is through the Badlands actually...we hear about how many did in that path half of the time we take refugees. Heck, I'm pretty sure Lower Valleyhome was formed around the refugees from the breakup of the Lowlanders way back when, that we integrated by teaching them farming and stuff. They specifically came through the Badlands too
The badlands route IS the shitty awful journey that everyone takes. remember Noxivah?
It is a terrible idea to go into the Lowlands for nearly all action matrices.
Hmm...I wonder if a salt gift from magwyna with her heroic Diplo and marriage ties could get some borders shifted without having to war the hk...would probably take a crit, if it were even possible, but...something to ask @Academia Nut ?
*helpless shrug*
Artisans start agitating for more respect?
I'd argue that leaving the badlands empty is a better defensive measure, as it means that any invaders would have to go through the entire badlands without a stopping point.
AN outright said that it's not possible. It was once possible, but we missed the opportunity to do it a long time ago.
