Alright strawman might have been a bit too far, but the point was you insisted that by not taking the forest now we're weakening our vassal in the long run, when this is very much the time to be doing damage control and getting them back up on their feet ASAP so that the nomads don't come back to finish the job.
And Black Soil has the added bonus of economic expansion anyway, so I'm pretty comfortable with this course of action.
I'm thinking it'll be more like the Law, giving us a free value evolution and unlocking more advanced features a la policies
This will solidify our culture, and likely improve our bookkeeping enough to evolve our taxation system once public education is established.
...That is still exaggerating quite a bit.
Because they've had a domestic source of lumber for centuries, because we can generally assume relatively trivial details like that are in aggregate covered by the econ forests generate, because the only way to cheapen chariots without massive differences would be fractions, because there's no real precedent of a similar nature that the mechanics function that way.
A major forest in the Lowlands would completely upset the apple cart. Just *Boom*.
Naw, our economy is pretty much based around "Wood is always available". The lowlanders have had to adapt to wood scarcity, so they make more with less.
Only thing I see wrong with the map is the Canal, which connects our rivers together, not bridges a bend in our western one (what were their names again?).Political map, 1km per pixel scale, first alliteration.
A domestic source that hasn't been expanded since its introduction. The March has grown much since then.
To be fair, we did our best to impart our own knowledge of forest management onto the Lowlanders because we were desperately trying to stop deforestation. They should have some of the socioeconomic and cultural tech, although not nearly to our level.
Actually, Managed Forests do expand over time, just very slowly. Expand Forests basically is artificially speeding up the process massively though, which is important if you think 10 generations is a little too slow
We actually gave the HK's previous gov, the Western Confederacy, tips on managing forests during the War on Blight, iirc--obviously that's not enough to make them as skilled or dedicated as us, but they know at least the basics...might even know black soil, since tht was a major part of our strategy in fighting the blight
We taught them but IIRC they don't really care much about it. Probably gone now in the regime change.
I't be real funny too since we would be changing the way war is being fought in the Lowlands yet again, despite being the least militant polity
Look at it in the way that we had to expand warriors. It was sufficient at the start and it did grow proportionately, but not adequately for our civ when the nomads came knocking. Same idea here.Actually, Managed Forests do expand over time, just very slowly. Expand Forests basically is artificially speeding up the process massively though, which is important if you think 10 generations is a little too slow
I wonder if a Double Main Forest would count as engineering...
We cannot put a march in the lowlands it needs to be a new province
We can't put a colony. A march is a whole different beast.
