On the first, I'm pretty confident in my position, but... I understand wanting clarification.
If they don't attack us, they take a Stability hit.
Hmm.
Actually they are smushed, word of AN. We absorbed the remnants. Nothing to worry about in that vector.
The reason it is broad strokes is because AN prefers it that way so we don't drown him in minutiae again. That way he can move things around for plot reasons.
Part of the reason we need a citizen army is that it reduces our need for militarization. Right now we have 3 heroic generals who might all be attacking us next turn. We'll have opportunity to burn off the martial.
Thread went over this a while ago. That is the Eastern Nomads who were our friends. The East horde is still wrecking face going by the update.
I think it's just the opposite.
I assume you mean "other trait evolutions reducing the cons"
?? As in we suck them up? Or what?
To my understanding, making our citizens soldiers increases our militarization, by definition.
Successful War Missions INCREASE Martial, not decrease it
But it' moot, because a sane combo won at least!
Should be noted that only a really successful war mission would do so. We'd have to gain enough veterans to make up for whatever amount of men we lose. So most war missions will cost us martial, even if they are successful.
Point is definitely moot but a question I guess. Didn't we lose martial this turn even though we won and drove them away from us?
Well crap. There's literally only two passes through those mountains?
It sounded like the STs got ground up somewhat, going from what had to be enormous Martial from a century of successful war missions and buildup, to 8 Martial. The nomads presumably took similar losses.
Here's the quote i think veekie is referring to, unless there was a more recent one i missed/forgot:
So it sounds like it would require something like "frequent but low intensity raiding, with focus on counting coup, not killing", and decent or better rolls...even something like "curbstomping non-horde nomads with almost no casualties" probably would at most be stable, since its not going to give much experience if its so easy.
I'd guess they lost something like 5 martial last turn. 13 martial seems like a good standing army for them, and 5 would be a fair loss for what they faced last turn.
The way I see it, it would work like this:
Mah roman legions...
What I know is that for every Secondary we commit 2 Martial. If we roll bad we lose it all, if we roll neutral we can get 1 back, good is 2(maybe?). But we roll for every 2 Martial committed.
no vote swing