Because Nomads are a lot more dangerous than the Trelli IMO. The Trelli are gonna be a little passive-aggressive towards us, the Nomads are just gonna fuck shit up.

On a side note, getting other nations annoyed enough at us to start minor wars that we win is a cool way to gain stability. Not an efficient way, but a very funny way.
River travel reduces most of the danger from nomads, though there is still some. The big disruption would likely come from a nomad horde forming, in which case we have other problems. :V
 
Northern trade post is just as dangerous if not moreso. Plus it leaves our traders and Greenshore vulnerable to raiders as well.

Because Nomads are a lot more dangerous than the Trelli IMO. The Trelli are gonna be a little passive-aggressive towards us, the Nomads are just gonna fuck shit up.

On a side note, getting other nations annoyed enough at us to start minor wars that we win is a cool way to gain stability. Not an efficient way, but a very funny way.
Yes, but they are dangerous in a way that we can handle. Land Warfare we can handle.

We are not prepared for naval warfare.
 
Because Nomads are a lot more dangerous than the Trelli IMO. The Trelli are gonna be a little passive-aggressive towards us, the Nomads are just gonna fuck shit up.

On a side note, getting other nations annoyed enough at us to start minor wars that we win is a cool way to gain stability. Not an efficient way, but a very funny way.
For fucks sake. I've said this a dozen times. Those aren't the same nomads and they aren't the kind that have been raiding us for a thousand years.

That northern trade post is as far from the nomads as hatvalley is from them. There are no nomads up there, not the kind we are used to.

Edit: Fucking phone spelling.
 
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I think the big issue is that we are seeing signs that festivals are papering over the problem. Hell, we were literally told that in the middle of all the partying and wealth flowing in, the corruption was getting lost in the glare.
I'm pretty sure the Tax Problem was papered over because of the influx of wealth (aka trade disruption ending) not the festival, which spent the "blood money" wealth to enrich the people.

We're making so much money from trade that we have excess even with the Tax Crisis, which makes it seem like less of a big deal, even though it is still a large problem.
 
I think the big issue is that we are seeing signs that festivals are papering over the problem. Hell, we were literally told that in the middle of all the partying and wealth flowing in, the corruption was getting lost in the glare.

What corruption? We have not done anything to increase corruption recently. Not taking the Stability right now because you dislike festivals (as opposed to liking the other options) just sounds like being ascetic for the hell of it.
 
Yes, but they are dangerous in a way that we can handle. Land Warfare we can handle.

We are not prepared for naval warfare.
We are more preapred for navam warfare (Hathyn) then we are with winter and the various tribes there that may be hostile thats not even including the nomads as well who will impede any help we can send up there. At best the Trelli will call off their raiders and at worst they just continue their raiding policy which will anger our periphery states thus forcing us to build the Grand Docks for actual warships.
 
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Baby Boom has always been based on our provinces, so getting stronger is entirely natural.

[X] [Exp] Found Mercenary Company

No to integration for now. Integration has a possibility of lowering our centralization cap (geometric complexity for each additional province) and the additional Martial won't help us. Let's finish the Palace first and lose some of that Martial.
We can pay the Mercenary Company 0 Wealth at no penalty to us. The additional Mercenary Company lets us engage with the Trelli if they decide to send something our way. If we decide to make a trading post later, having a spare Mercenary Company ready to deploy is useful.


[X] [Diplo] Open fresh trade (Two Sec Trade Missions to neighbours)
[X] [Diplo] Tie everything further together (Main New Trails)
[X] [Diplo] Need a bigger boat (Main More Boats)


I'm fine with any of these.

[X] [Int] Party! (Main Improve Festival)

Stability raiser to prepare for Law stability hits (You know it's going to happen) and consumes some Econ to refund some slots.
 
Yes, but they are dangerous in a way that we can handle. Land Warfare we can handle.

We are not prepared for naval warfare.
Yeah, as we are now, we've got land warfare covered. Between our iron advantage, shield walls, high numbers, good logistical base and decent tactics and cutting edge understanding of cavalry, we should be able to beat a horde unless everything goes to complete shit. And the fact that we have longboats makes fighting on rivers pretty much our specialty.

But at sea, we're pretty shit. Excellent traders and all, but otherwise not good at ship to ship, mostly since we've never needed to be.
 
Yes, but they are dangerous in a way that we can handle. Land Warfare we can handle.

We are not prepared for naval warfare.
We kinda are. Not amazingly and without any of the focus that the Trelli have had, but we're not gonna get advances in that without something pushing us to it, and our archery and longships are both pretty powerful.

On that note though we definitely need More Boats if we go with Trelli West. If Trails gets noticeably in the lead I'll definitely go with Northern.

edit: Don't forget that we had a good number of engagements with Hath raiders. Not a major naval battle, but it's not something we've never done before.
 
Even if tax collection was still being weird and there were inefficiencies and odd forms of corruption, suddenly so much was moving that it was hard to see the little losses, even if the king was assured that it was actually quite a lot once you tallied it all.
What corruption? We have not done anything to increase corruption recently. Not taking the Stability right now because you dislike festivals (as opposed to liking the other options) just sounds like being ascetic for the hell of it.

That corruption. I don't dislike festivals and it has nothing to do with being ascetic. AN has said it pretty much just kind of ignores the issue that actually stems from the lowered stability. It's a paper covering that eventually just shatters.

Things like enforce justice and RO actually fix the problem. Hell, the only reason I didn't vote for a festival last turn is because I thought the provinces wouldn't build on the palace due to Econ requirements. It has its uses. They all do.
 
Let's not forget about the warning in the past about Stallion Tribe March going independent, or the general chaos that occurs when our legitimacy + stability =0, or insufficient centralization resulting in government type change.
 
That corruption. I don't dislike festivals and it has nothing to do with being ascetic. AN has said it pretty much just kind of ignores the issue that actually stems from the lowered stability. It's a paper covering that eventually just shatters.

Things like enforce justice and RO actually fix the problem. Hell, the only reason I didn't vote for a festival last turn is because I thought the provinces wouldn't build on the palace due to Econ requirements. It has its uses. They all do.

Except this crises and this form of corruption does not lower stability.
 
Also, for those who did not understand the description or connect the new tech we have with it, like me, this is what a Noria is


Using another water wheel to power it, this is generally how it works:
 
That corruption. I don't dislike festivals and it has nothing to do with being ascetic. AN has said it pretty much just kind of ignores the issue that actually stems from the lowered stability. It's a paper covering that eventually just shatters.

Things like enforce justice and RO actually fix the problem. Hell, the only reason I didn't vote for a festival last turn is because I thought the provinces wouldn't build on the palace due to Econ requirements. It has its uses. They all do.
That's not really any NEW corruption, that's old corruption being papered over by the fact our weath income has returned to normal, so that even with wonky taxing we have an actual surplus even when we get hit with tax penalties. Stop strawmanning and read the actual update.
 
[X] [Exp] Found Far Northern Trade Post
[X] [Diplo] Need a bigger boat (Main More Boats)
[X] [Int] Build palace (Extra megaproject action)
 
How about transferring some econ to the marches. Improve relations and infuse some more of our main culture back into them.
 
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