We don't actually do that much trade. Right now, we are getting what, 3 Wealth/turn from trade? I am much more worried bout our other problems.
We have 10 Leading or Dominant goods, we have Significant in 2 more. We just finished the Ironworks which explicitly doubled the impact of our Iron dominance.
We are totally a trade power; the Trelli had 13 Leading or Dominant trade goods (mostly through controlling our or the Khemetri's trade) at their peak. We are very nearly their equal, it's just not our
only facet. It is an important one, however.
Screw it, maximum shiny things mode. We won't die from -1 Stability, and we have the midturn coming up for enforce justice and econ expansion. And that mystery box tempts and taunts me.
Actually... we could.
We're sitting at -1 right now. Next turn, Gilded Age could mean we lose 1 Stability (unlikely, admittedly) but we're going to lose 1 to the Second Sons crisis. We'll probably need to{S} Suppress Faction - Traders or Yeoman too, which costs stability as well (or commit to conquest or civil war). From there, if the Western Ymaryn suck up any Econ beyond the minimum (we have 5, 4 is the minimum) we are going to starve and that's another -1. Oops, we just hit -4 and explode. We have to be very careful with our stability. Any hits mean we're likely to starve as the Western Ymaryn suck up our tiny pool of Econ and take further hits.
Hey,
@Academia Nut will we have the opportunity to [M] Enforce Justice or {S} Proclaim Glory + {S} Restoration of Order as an action during the Mid-Turn?
Either way, we also may need to consider PSN to [M] Expand Econ again. We are very close to starvation currently. Stability and Econ are critically low.
We may be forced to conquer the Trelli too as we cannot afford the Stability loss of suppressing the Traders. Losing 2 stability would give the Western Ymaryn enough refugees to send us into starvation.
What would the steel fist legacy mean? Any indications/ideas?
Some type of Causus Belli generator.
@Academia Nut shouldn't the Yeoman's power currently be 2? I thought we Suppressed them last turn?