It could be one of those settings where the ability of mages grows as their knowledge of how magic works grows. Which would make the big stuff mostly hard to pull off at the beginning.
Technically, the important part is not that supernatural things exist, but rather that the rules of PoC's world is different from our own.
Until we get mages shooting lightning from their hands, we won't ever have direct proof that "magic exists" (read: physics are different in this universe than in our universe).
I'm sad people aren't going for the stability
Don't forget Study Forest as well. As it is, we are pretty shit Dwelves since we have barely studied the forests. Perhaps we can focus on forest related things after we get the iron mine.
Survey Lands is a relatively safe option since it is free and opens possibility for new Iron sites.
Assuming you mean Expand Holy Site, I'd be ok with that.
Actually, I think that the Comet is coming. If you do a search, every previous comet came in the middle of the month. Work in non-standard turn orders and assume that the Comet becomes more and more likely to be spotted on a given schedule, we're due for a Comet within a turn or two.
Or those are two different comets and they're about to recur soon
Something to switch off of Policy: Expansion.
Build up of magic power as you learn more? Sounds like Mystery.
If next mid turn we get the Herald then we know what's coming even if the Ymaryn don't quite remember. That is a huge advantage. Plus if it is the Herald then it will not be as severe of a comet event as the DOOM. This will mitigate a lot of the issues comets bring. Plus we will now have a schedule to plan around which is ungodly helpful even if we have an uncertainty of + or - a turn.
Defense sounds good since we have a vulnerable front in East Redhill and in west-northwest Blackriver.
Right, Balanced. I should have gone and checked the proper name.
Almost certainly not. We want Expansion for another 2-3 turns at least, unless the Iron mine provides a truly ridiculous amount of econ for us to spend. I want to get our stats to golden age levels again, and Expansion is by far the fastest way to achieve that.
Expansion is the single fastest way to get ourselves into another losing war with the nomads.
WHUT? That makes no sense at all. First of all, comet periods are incredibly unlikely to align with our calendar, so middle of a month has nothing to do with anything.
What I'm actually thinking is that they might be an entire...flock? flight? pod?...of comets, all on the same general course, but not passing at the same time, meaning that without magnification equipment, we're actually missing all but the lowest flying ones, which is why AN is rolling for it-there's a possibility we see one, a possibility we see multiple, or a possibility we don't see any at all.
Blackriver is still protected via the March, it doesn't open up any surface area to the Nomads. As to the rest...
Okay. Listen. Turns are about twenty frickin' years. It doesn't have to line up to the day, just the general time period.
Good to hear we will stop being stupid about going into the steppe. Time to look at the East then.
We should probably make a new March to give the Stallions Tribes relief and have them focus only on the nomads to their North and let the other March take care of the Northeast.
We can do that the turn after this. We are at 10 Martial so we could build a March, though I'd rather do it after we definitively have Iron so most of their equipment is Iron.
Sounds about good however why not Proclaim Glory since our stability is capped at 2?
That Grand Sac is meant to nullify the Stab cost of the mine as it gives only 1 and the mine will only take 1. A secondary Proclaim gives no Stability, and one on the Iron turn means we are at -1 Stability for the March turn and everyone clamors for Main RoO which throws the entire thing catywompus.
So we can main it instead and get both.
