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- Hell
Considering that would only need to happen if we let Highlanders live, pretty sure you guys have it backwards. We put down the Highlanders and we have no need for a March there as Harmurri works as protection from the South.
Paths of Civilization
- Thread starter Academia Nut
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- Original
Speaking of Priests, are they completely they own caste/social class or is there some overlap with other classes like patricians or the like via hereditary priesthoods as was typical in Rome, Greece etc.?
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- Volksstaat Hessen, Deutsches Reich
Ah. Sorry then. Too many people do get on about "meritocracy" as a system...
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Oh yes, definitely. He's not exactly anxious even if he is always considering how things could go wrong, and to a certain degree he enjoys war, even if he isn't a psychopath about it.
Probably.
So tempted to troll rate this insightful, but decided against it.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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- Lickwidget
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Nope.
Here is the AN quote which says -3 is normal.
Alyx gave us another +6 on top of that because he won so hard.
I'd say that sufficient luck is genius all in it's own. Maybe even closer to the original meaning of the word.
We definitely don't have it backwards. Converting econ into martial is explicitly something that can happen from combat with Levies. Maybe it won't happen if we win the war in one phase, and maybe we'll actually manage that, but that's still a helluva risk.
What do you call a system of promotions via competitive examination?
Obviously that isn't ideal meritocracy, but it is the most common and "pure" implementation I am aware of.
Menolith
Poster #965953
- Location
- Up North
I have concerns about the use of italics there.
The Ymaryn wants to sincerely be friend with the Forhuch, and instead, they got an EMPIRE! Whoopise!
Forhuch: "Meh, we can take them."
AN: "You have decided to challenge the final boss of the region, and, roll dice, your army got annihilated along with your king."
Forhuch: "AIEEEEEEEE!"
AN: "Your Kingdom is basically headless, which means before long, your kingdom will implode into chaos and anarchy un-
Forhuch: "NOOOOOOOO!"
AN: "Congratulation. You are vassalized by the Ymaryn, which means you now have access to ninety-nine percent of the Ymaryn techbase and sociological concept for all the measly price of one econ per turn."
Forhuch: "...Yay?"
Thanks to @BungieONI for the last reaction.
Forhuch: "Meh, we can take them."
AN: "You have decided to challenge the final boss of the region, and, roll dice, your army got annihilated along with your king."
Forhuch: "AIEEEEEEEE!"
AN: "Your Kingdom is basically headless, which means before long, your kingdom will implode into chaos and anarchy un-
Forhuch: "NOOOOOOOO!"
AN: "Congratulation. You are vassalized by the Ymaryn, which means you now have access to ninety-nine percent of the Ymaryn techbase and sociological concept for all the measly price of one econ per turn."
Forhuch: "...Yay?"
Thanks to @BungieONI for the last reaction.
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- Austria
Those who create the tests ensure that those who pay them/are their relatives/useful/etc are most likely to pass the test.
More expertise-based government, sadly, leads to politization of expertise and not vice versa.
Do Vassal-Marches pay us Taxes, @Academia Nut? Or only Vassals, Colonies, and Vassal-Colonies?
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Once you have better access they can start paying taxes.
- Location
- Volksstaat Hessen, Deutsches Reich
Who writes those examinations? (the literacy tests of the Deep South come to mind, or the Chinese bureaucratic exams demanding esoteric knowledge about classical literature and so on.) Who grades them? Etc.
I would call that a self-perpetuating bureaucracy, which ultimately leads to a self-perpetuating bureaucratic elite class. Which is more or less what we have in place: The Patricians keep to power through connections and the monopolization of knowledge in a technically, theoretically open system.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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I assume better access means, after we integrate the Thunder Horse and have massive roads across the Lowlands?
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- Austria
*Megaproject Support intensifies*
Although, we will have government reform and I, personally, have no idea which of AN's ideas stay and which he had changed since he posted them. So maybe not...still, I would prefer to hurry a bit with dam+canal.
[X] [Marriage] From one of the Forhuch tribes to secure their loyalty
[X] [Main] Restore Order
[X] [Secondary] Dam
[X] [Secondary] Dam x2
[X] [Secondary] Annex - Great Hall
[X] [Secondary] Hunt Troublemakers
[X] [Secondary] Switch Policy - Offensive
[X] [Secondary] Enforce Justice
[X] [Guild] Build Mills
[X] [Guild] Build Mills x2
[X] [Guild Secondary] Build Mills
[X] [Main] Restore Order
[X] [Secondary] Dam
[X] [Secondary] Dam x2
[X] [Secondary] Annex - Great Hall
[X] [Secondary] Hunt Troublemakers
[X] [Secondary] Switch Policy - Offensive
[X] [Secondary] Enforce Justice
[X] [Guild] Build Mills
[X] [Guild] Build Mills x2
[X] [Guild Secondary] Build Mills
- Location
- Mists of Albion
.....Negaverse Omake plz
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
- Location
- ꙮ
or simply the riverine canal
it will take less stats and actions
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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- ꙮ
@Academia Nut After we've pushed the HK back and done whatever, would you mind updating the map and including markers of where the passes from the steppes are?
I'm basically assuming we're going to need all kinds of updates for stuff like that with the reform and there won't be an update for a fair bit. I guess I'll have to get a life or something in the meantime...
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- Simi Valley, CA, United States
Especially since it seems like one of the Megaprojects is to build a passage between the steppes and the lowlands.
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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- ꙮ
Hiking and going on tinder and so forth is good, but there's always steam.
My concern is, mostly, with figuring out which places are going to be flooded with nomads, how much of the eastern mountain range our new vassal occupies and whether it connects completely with the range MoS occupies. I'm also partially concerned with what land we end up taking from the HK and whether the land we gain from the war will result in a cheap cross-river canal.
I.e., if we take some of the Harmurri's land we can be at this one place where the distance is only about 3/2 times the size of the Triangle Canal.
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- Hell
So your reasoning...is that you think we are going to get another pair of nat 100.
That is what you are afraid of.
My point is that we would not win in one phase.
Phase 1
We start government projects
We remove them from the Lowlands
We have a choice what to do next
Phase 2
Income comes in
First few projects finish
We take down the Highlanders
We would have the Econ in time.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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No.
Mass Levy by default has us convert 3 Econ into 3 Martial, regardless of who is leading them. That's what the "naturally" means.
E: And that's not even including the disease rolls.
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