Training new characters in Naval Songweaving will still be restricted at the moment to getting permission (again if necessary) and sending them to the Arsenal, though, correct?
Once Rita finishes her action, she can arrange the training herself.
Hmm, would having 2-3 (presuming Monica learns it and Evelyn makes Elite Songweaver) Elite Naval Songweavers be enough to qualify Tellar as a Naval House? You know, given that its 3 more Elite Naval Songweavers than anyone else has.
Maritime Power, Infrastructure, Traditions, are the three pillars.
Infrastructure's going to be a right bitch, it'll take forever to build and there's a tonne of other infrastructure we need to set down too.
In the eyes of Antonia, Evelyn and Luna how much of a terrible idea is this?
Because Sonissimmo still controls the Royal Navy, they took the action and cost to expand their shipyard. Technically good for Sartier overall, kinda bad for Tellar. Right now even if we managed to somehow get enough Influence back over the Royal Navy to win them over (ha fat chance of that any time soon), frankly Tellar won't be able to pay for them, especially if they keep expanding.
Well, really, the first question that should be asked is "what does achieving Naval House status actually get us?", other than the components to the act itself.
Spitballing here, it might not strictly be a terrible idea militarily or strategically but it'll certainly a costly one.
Nothing, I assume. However, as something to spitball for as a way of becoming a naval power it seems like a good first goal
Honestly, if its costly but militarily and strategically sound then I'm a lot less salty about it. We've got reserves of funds from the whole Vincennes/Dale debacle.
Honestly, whilst I like the bridge, I'm somewhat queasy about losing one of our stewardship agents for six turns. Hopefully the duration will have decreased somewhat with the new research. I'd rather blitz out the roads in one turn (spending 2 influence) and get a courier system done first.
Speaking of which, some projected expected costs this turn for things I believe we should buy. May want to hold that thought about reserves of funds when you see what we could be spending this turn.
It would go a long way, yes. Either in Harper itself, or in Billfarthing as a proxy.
Between the three of them you would get a, very invective laden, explanation about how it'd be great to fortify it even further than they ask. To have Cape Sous as a southern fortification one to go with the northern Castle Mastiff protecting Harper, would be very helpful and improve the mood about the place. Luna Reynolds would also point out extending that further to the Reynolds at Billfarthing.
Glad to hear it
no plans makes me a sad QM, as @Macchiato will attest...It's less of a mechanical matter, and more of a philosophical one, in terms of how event tables get altered, actions presented, who sidles up to you, what the Royal Navy thinks of you.
1) I'm still not totally sold on the idea that we need to burn 45k on recruitment, but consider me provisionally on board with it. Have you done the maths for what this will do to our turnly expenses and the vassal houses turnly incomes?
Amen to that. But given that Teuv and Tranquillity are south of us and these fortifications would be in the south... I'm inclined to say its worth it.
Hmm, would it be replacing our status as a powerful land house, or simply in addition to it?
Sure.
This will technically be true but practically speaking they can't actually afford any more semi-pro regiments (and have extra space as it is), so for now it wouldn't do anything for us. I would absolutely love for us to get them each a Tellar House Cavalry regiment but it'd cut deeply into their net income for insufficient gain at this time.
I'm not strictly opposed, but do remember that the sooner the important projects complete, the sooner the income and whatever else effects will be felt. Roads in a single turn is probably okay, barring competing Influence choices, but the courier one is IMHO such marginal benefit for locking up a Stewardship action that it simply shouldn't be considered at this time.
While we'll have to wait and see, I believe Melody is going to be autocommitted to the assassination of Arnold Vincennes. Even if not, given that she's already in Renmi, it may be smarter to have her do an action there instead if there is one. Establishing a spy ring, basic lay of the land, etc.
Yes, I actually had penciled it into my plan, if we get to pick for Justice. Don't know who specifically yet, though.
Ok, consider me sold on the militia spam. That 4k upkeep is going to be very painful though, given the projects it looks like we have coming up. I'm not totally sold on us actually having the money.
Barring influence cost I'd set up the roads at the same turn as we do either the docks or the bridge. Get the advantage as soon as we can for the roads, hell if we have three influence spare I'd be in favour of getting it done immediately with no cost.
Ohh of course, if she's already in Renmi then we absolutely should use that.
I present it as a project of equal weight that we should make the money for, especially when you consider the lead time: 4 turns for Tellar House Longbows, 3 turns for Tellar Inner Guard. Something else that needs to be kicked off to actually have it ready in time for any number of things that can happen by then.
We simply don't have the Stewards available to do more than one project at once. We have one (1) Architect who should be actually doing Infrastructure projects and one who can but I argue should be continuing the Read The Manual chain and hitting the rest of the Great and Vassal Houses that have something worth learning about. Picking up Louise Tellar this turn may alleviate that, but that'll then hit us in Influence.
Hadn't considered the lead times. Consider me sold.
We kindof do. Given that the roads only take a single turn whilst all the other infrastructure projects are multi-turn monstrosities. We can do that and then get 3-4 turns of manual reading in between then and the next project. And that's without taking into account that we'd be benefiting from the roads for multiple turns by that point.
Hmm. I suppose if we had the Influence to spare this turn, we could conceivably do Roads+2 Influence and Docks/Bridge, but I'd still probably prefer we RTM again instead of doing one of the two in hopes of getting another turn's worth of improvement on either of the big projects. Sonissimmo is almost certainly the next RTM target and they're going to have lots of interesting things to look at.
FWIW, 4 Influence was actually starting, and having more Influence is *supposed* to be the Tellar thing and frankly necessary when doing Diplo maneuvers. Capo's Influence kinda sucks but Sonissimmo Influence is apparently pretty good also. Dropping to 3 is very risky. As for counting on increases, I don't believe we should expect any, they seem mostly tied to random events off amazing dice rolls in the correct areas, and we just got very lucky.
That's certainly the other option, and one that likely won't hurt the treasury as much. I think people are eager to do one of the mega-projects though.
My bad, I misremembered how many influence Carmen Rios contributed to the turn budget. Turns out its three influence, rather than two like I thought. Jesus, losing her is going to be painful.
We currently have no idea but FriedIce did just ask for what the big features are of various house locations, so we might get more of a hint. I didn't care specifically beforehand aside from picking the wealthy houses that were accessible because frankly Tellar is so behind everywhere that anything is good, but optimizing towards the Docks or the Bridge would probably serve us well in terms of timing.
