Have to wonder why people feel restoring our military soon is worth less than walls right now. Either the martial help us exploit the TS when they're weakened, or if they manage to break free and want to start shit. That, and iron almost certainly opened up a ton of military innovation it'd be better to have sooner or later.
Generating active military is felt to be less necessary as they currently lack a target or immediate use. Walls are good until gunpowder if you keep the tech up. Currently the nearby steppes are weeded of nomads and the other issue the Thunder Speakers just failed to break off from the Thunder Horse... meaning unless HK goes psycho-betrayal monkey there isn't an immediate threat.
Though with the vote leaving offensive policies on your getting your military units anyway.
God help us if they spawn a third heroic general, or just start spawning them regularly now.
Honestly, they probably will spawn one soon as that is what their society encourages. Though it should be someone else's problem this time. No mercs to use in the nearby areas.
Reminder: We don't have enough Martial yet, because the Nomad Son survived and will be getting a posse to tear us a new asshole.
That would be rather dumb. The area around the Stallions is a dead zone currently. The People managed to toss out an extinction event locals so the steppe herpes has flared out for now. Also, pulling off that raid means they got their revenge on the no rolling over and submitting people. That was the revenge run for them. Better to fight where there are easier targets.
Golden Age transition they made. I wonder what.
The reason the Aztecs did the sacrifice thing was lack of megafauna. All that was left to eat in force was llama, chiwawa , and people. So they did constant war to get enough protean. Other peoples in South america actually figured out how to farm on top of lakes to get enough agriculture. The Aztecs solved the food issue through ritual sacrifice and war.
The Dead Priests actually solved this through declaring tribute prisoners. Much cheaper than war for the tributes and you can ditch your troublemakers and captured raiders on them. Once the TH trashed them down to a one city Civ they turned towards trading instead. So no war needed.
Now they have all the sacrifices they need and more incoming. For me the logical next step is to honor their nonlethal blood god and build an arena for gladiatorial combat. They have the second best healers so they can just recycle their gladiators.
Wait, so now our military consist of both a powerful elite core and a much larger, less well-trained/equipped horde? The Ymaryn just turned into a dinosaur-less Lizardmen army.
...which could evolve into an officer corp and grunts, though with the anti-magic tech and the anti-plague demon fixation this is even more true.
So entirely preventable if only we had watchtowers there huh.
Nope. The nomads no-selled the watchtowers so those needed a tech update for them not to be toys for the nomads.
As long as plains, horses and assholes exist in roughly the same area, nomads will exist. If you kill all of them it wont be long before the niche is filled with new tribes.
Quoted for truth.
But what about not killing them but just subduing them? Basically I want revenge, the nomads took our people so I want to kill all their men, marry off their women, and have their children indoctrinated to our ways
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Subduing who exactly? It will be generations until the steppe herpes has a real chance to flare up again. The local nomads have all been killed or fled... for now.
Shouldn't we have gotten some Prestige for apparently raiding the gods' tool shed?
I'm not sure that anyone has noticed yet. Lolwhat? is coming on that front.
"They got fucking starmetal. And they turned it into a pot!?"
Unlikely for now. Iron at the currently level rusts easily so is bad for
"That's it. They're insane. Totally. In. Sane."
*dejected sigh*
"They are also winning the tech race. Maybe sanity is holding us back"
*Order Above All interrupt!*
"OW!"
Quick question, will we ever gain the chance to get Iron weapons again automatically or will that be a separate project at some point?
Iron weapons are a thing already. The vote was for what what the first batch was concentrated on during the half turn. It wasn't about exclusivity of use.
Early Iron Bringers: Materials advancement always a possibility during Golden Ages, regardless of available excesses
Guess this was due to the Nat 100 that let us skip Bronze. Maybe we'll get steel during the next golden age.
Or even ancient plastic someday!
Bronze would still be very nice. Its largely weather proof and great for anything where iron rusting will really screw things up. Also, its stronger that iron for building. Its also more expensive per unit and far rarer.
Basically, iron is a hell of a thing, when everyone is hyped up for brass weapons being the bleeding age tech. Iron, particularly early iron, is kind of bad compared to bronze its just stupidly easier to get. iron isn't steel after all... unlike meteoric iron. Where durability isn't a major thing
"Their unleashing ninjas.
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Like they know what ninjas are. If they know we have ninja equivalents things have gone rather wrong.
We still have superior tech and numbers. I don't see why it shouldn't be possible if we build new settlements when the nomads are weakened (like now) and fortify those settlements heavily.
Sure its possible... its just asking for major trouble and strictly worse defensively that expanding south west into the hills. Its the kind of thing you do when you don't have a better choice or are taking a bet.
The best option for settling the steppes is to .... remove the steppes. A tower walk strategy. A slow terraforming march in their general direction. That takes forever.
