Anyway, yeah. The bolded cannot be emphasized enough.
We won't be fighting pitched battles. We'll be fighting off raids and conducting counter-raids, and the fact that they're nomads means that war carts would be required to effectively take the fight to them. We can't play defensive because Eye for an Eye demands we get vengeance.
The Qm AS OUR ECONOMIC ADVISOR
Or that would just end up with all our dudes getting killed off.
When your economic advisor just tells you it'd hurt less to have economy hit 0 than to try to raid horse nomads without mobility...and you just disregard it?
Exactly, he's our economic advisor, not our war advisor.
Except your pulling that out of your ass, You have NOWAY of knowing that we will instantly lose this turn, the qm has affirmed that we can wait until the next turn, and that's ignoring the chance that we lose despite building carts which will CRIPPLE us for several turns at the least
Yes, I am not accounting for the unlikely outcome of the war given either choice. My apologies for trying to account for what we can probably agree is maybe 60/40 to lose or 60/40 to win depending on which direction we go with our action this turn.
We do know this. This is historical that surprisingly, raiding horse nomads doesn't work without good cavalry.
He had ALSO confirmed that we are locked into attacking this turn. Whether we are succeeding or failing on that attack determines whether the grudge continues, gets worse, or ends.
I know, and it kills me since it puts us into the absolute worse position... well not the worse, that's probably next turn if we lose (especially if we lose with the carts option picked) I am trying to mitigate that loss or if we win Maximize our econ gain
First off, its probably extremely short sighted to not consider the worse case scenario but w/e
Yes, exactly. Our economic advisor, the one whose sole purpose is monitoring and advising us on the state of the economy told us that it was a better idea to invest in our military then it was to stablize our economy right now.
We do. We just don't have as much as historically we are used to.
Why? Our civilization has an ability where we can use centralization in place of economy for emergencies. This is an emergency. Thus we use our civilization's emergency power.
Meh? Really now? I could argue that with the exact same roll of 50 in each situation, I am not taking more for mine and implying the worst case for yours. On the contrary, we are specifically to be given some additional sub-turns to manage our little war. I imagine you could probably push an economic turn as high as 60% to win, but in the same vein you could probably push the warcart turn as high as 80-90%.
Its possible that our adviser only feels that it is justified due to the effects of Eye for an Eye
Some guy asked if we can use an action to develop pikes n' junk, AN responded by telling him we'd naturally create anti-cavalry weapons if we have to fight cavalry.
It wouldn't kill all of our dudes off, surely. Then the ones that survive are more motivated to develop anti-cav tech!
But we aren't fighting riding cavalry(which rely on shock more and are weak to spearwalls). This is a two man chariot, where one guy drives while the other works either a bow or a spear, typically dismounting to fight before driving away once the odds turn.
