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Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)

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Slayer Anderson said:
Controlling the Narrative: You've become.. not quite a household name, but close enough. You need to control your PR. Euphemia has suggested a series of interviews, short biographies, and similar media projects to get the story of both Indonesia and Tunguska out so you can reap the rewards you've earned. Cost: 200; Upkeep: 0; DC: 30/60/90; Rewards: Potential of investment into your island, Protection contracts for your fleets, Income Stream, ???.
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Protection contracts for our fleets. Assuming the Lihua, Lelouch & Xingke somehow rap up the civil war in a single year(unlikely) our fleets will still be in need of repairs and probably tied up defending CF ports in the aftermath of an attack significant enough to make a difference. It's an interesting option, but a poor one to take with phase 2's martial combo, which is the entire part Euphemia is mad about. I personally think it's better off to just accept the result we got, but I at least hope anyone voting to reject it will acknowledge the impracticality of repeating it turn 11 rather than 12 or 13. If we are going to have a repeat, it should be when we know our Navy is not already committed to combat actions.
 
arsdraconis said:
In regard to what to use for the Psionic, I think the Psionic medic is the best option since it's gonna have immediate impact on our troops fighting ability, which will be relevant if we're actually gonna jump in and invade a port and actually have boot in the ground for our entanglement instead of just limiting it to naval engagement. We're entering a turn that may result in paradigm changing if not outright game ending on bad rolls, so picking options with more short term impact is probably preferable to longer term, even if the long term effect may have the best result.
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I'm fine with people choosing Psionic Medical Corps for other reasons, but based on what Slayer has said, they won't be available for the invasion without an action in the following phase. Which we won't almost certainly have, considering how many actions we already have basically locked down. And even if we could, it would only be in small numbers.
 
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[X][CCW] You will declare for the Empress.
[X][TOA] China
[X][CtN] Reject Completed Action as Insufficient.
[X][ARA] Psionic Medical Corps. (Crowley Develops Field Medics/Doctors with Psionic Bonuses)
 
RandyTrevelyan said:
Protection contracts for our fleets. Assuming the Lihua, Lelouch & Xingke somehow rap up the civil war in a single year(unlikely) our fleets will still be in need of repairs and probably tied up defending CF ports in the aftermath of an attack significant enough to make a difference. It's an interesting option, but a poor one to take with phase 2's martial combo, which is the entire part Euphemia is mad about. I personally think it's better off to just accept the result we got, but I at least hope anyone voting to reject it will acknowledge the impracticality of repeating it turn 11 rather than 12 or 13. If we are going to have a repeat, it should be when we know our Navy is not already committed to combat actions.
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the thing is that if we acept it then that was it and such an opportunity will never turn up again yet if we declare it unsuficient then it will stay an opportunity till either slayer or the rng kicks it out of our options
 
[x][CCW] You will declare for the Empress.
[x][TOA] China
[X][CtN] Accept +200 Income for the Action.
[x][ARA] Psionic Medical Corps. (Crowley Develops Field Medics/Doctors with Psionic Bonuses)

I concur with the thought that having a free diplo action next turn is more valuable than trying to redo and get a better result on the narrative action. Additionally I feel that having high quality medics, now, is better than getting high quality research now and all the other stuff later.
 
Mr.Bones said:
I concur with the thought that having a free diplo action next turn is more valuable than trying to redo and get a better result on the narrative action. Additionally I feel that having high quality medics, now, is better than getting high quality research now and all the other stuff later.
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Sorry if I seem a bit repetive in my posts, but we won't have them immediately for free. We need to take an action (likely Piety) for the Psionic Medical Corps in the next Phase to get minimal results in the time for the invasion if I've understood Slayer correctly. And most likely, we won't be able afford this in the first place due to how bottlenecked our action economy is right now.
 
meianmaru said:
Sorry if I seem a bit repetive in my posts, but we won't have them immediately for free. We need to take an action (likely Piety) for the Psionic Medical Corps in the next Phase to get minimal results in the time for the invasion if I've understood Slayer correctly. And most likely, we won't be able afford this in the first place due to how bottlenecked our action economy is right now.
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In support of this point, we also have no Idea of the DC of such an action, but between the mobilization of the majority of his supporters, lelouch himself being unavailable to supervise because of his romantic tour of brittania with Euphemia, the likelyhood our new psionic healers lack experience in teaching their skills to others, I'd expect a High one.
 
Mr.Bones said:
I concur with the thought that having a free diplo action next turn is more valuable than trying to redo and get a better result on the narrative action.
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We do have a free action, though. Even if we choose to re-do it, we have to pick the action; it's not automatically locked in. Which means we can just leave it on the list for some later time and do something else with the diplo action.
 
For learning what do we wish to persue next? Personally I wish to go the jet route for a little while. I'm not sure if the give a Mecha to Ashford will make reverse engineering it a stewardship action or not.
 
Darkcore41 said:
For learning what do we wish to persue next? Personally I wish to go the jet route for a little while. I'm not sure if the give a Mecha to Ashford will make reverse engineering it a stewardship action or not.
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We only have one research action in Learning that isn't locked in from the previous year, the locked in one being the jet route. For what to take... I would probably go for the Animal Testing. We shouldn't delay it any longer than we absolutely have to, as we still have a slog ahead of ourselves.

Anyway, here is what locked in:
Slayer Anderson said:
[ ] Ramjet Theory: Quite honestly, you can't use this technology. However, you can sell it if you develop it properly. It might even net you a significant sum depending on the buyer. Hashima is certain of her ability to produce results, at least, and it's a significantly less strange than some of Jaegar's technology. Cost: 800; Upkeep: 200; DC: 60; Time: 2 Years; Rewards: Development of a potentially valuable technology.
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And what I'd suggest that we should take in addition:
Slayer Anderson said:
[ ] Animal Testing: A purely psionic man-machine interface is an impressive and potentially ground-breaking technological advance. It's also dangerous. You've decided to move forward with animal testing to ensure nothing goes horribly wrong. Cost: 200; Upkeep: 100; DC: 60; Rewards: Ensure psionic computation prototypes won't automatically kill whoever you attach them to, human testing becomes easier.
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[x][CCW] You will declare for the Empress
[x][TOA] India
[x][CtN] Reject Completed Action as Insufficient.
[X][ARA] Psionic Medical Corps. (Crowley Develops Field Medics/Doctors with Psionic Bonuses)
 
RandyTrevelyan said:
In support of this point, we also have no Idea of the DC of such an action, but between the mobilization of the majority of his supporters, lelouch himself being unavailable to supervise because of his romantic tour of brittania with Euphemia, the likelyhood our new psionic healers lack experience in teaching their skills to others, I'd expect a High one.
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There is also the fact that any meaningful medical corps will most likely require us completing the 2 year Recruitment action to increase our pool of psionic workforce from the 50 cultists under Crowley. Yes, we have the shinobi population pool. But a lot of them are busy on Intrigue projects (like infiltrating the majority of south-east Asia) and others most likely have other duties in the clan. The recruitment action was most likely to go through all those potentials and select a pool for future training.
So if we train medics with what we have we might end up with a group in single digits as some talent for healing and medicine will be required.
Darkcore41 said:
For learning what do we wish to persue next? Personally I wish to go the jet route for a little while. I'm not sure if the give a Mecha to Ashford will make reverse engineering it a stewardship action or not.
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I myself would go for Animal Testing for reasons stated before. As to why I'm not taking the Gawain. We might want to use it during the operation as a nuclear shotgun. And its battlefield analysis and control systems are superior due to the Druid System. So it makes sense to have it available for major battles where we aren't worried about allied forces and local infrastructure as we were in Indonesia. It might have a debuff to fighting during the first year due to preliminary work but it should be fully operational by the second year of fighting. We will also need a Diplomacy action to get the Ashfords to join in on the project. I don't know if Milly getting her staff will change that.

As for Piety I am right now trying to decide the second action. The first will be the time limited analysis of psionic weapons which includes the borrowed anti psionic swords we got.
For the second action I'm torn between starting Recruitment (which is a 2 year action) to expand our psionic staff or Alchemical Practitioners so Lelouch isn't the only one crafting potential equipment for our troops. I am leaning towards Recruitment as the Alchemical Practitioners seems more like an income action but I might be wrong. It could also help create a core of Alchemists to train others gained from Recruitment.
There might also be an expedition to the Anatolia region. Which I am conflicted about since it might open another can of worms while we are dealing with China due to what is near that location. I am of course talking about the Thought Elevator that should be somewhere around Semnan Province in Iran. The world map isn't covering the Semnan Province as under Britannian control but I wouldn't count on Slayer not moving the location slightly in this quest to mess with our OOC knowledge as this is an AU.
 
Hawkmoon said:
There is also the fact that any meaningful medical corps will most likely require us completing the 2 year Recruitment action to increase our pool of psionic workforce from the 50 cultists under Crowley. Yes, we have the shinobi population pool. But a lot of them are busy on Intrigue projects (like infiltrating the majority of south-east Asia) and others most likely have other duties in the clan. The recruitment action was most likely to go through all those potentials and select a pool for future training.
So if we train medics with what we have we might end up with a group in single digits as some talent for healing and medicine will be required.
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While I'm still not voting for the Psionic Medical Corps, I have to correct you here. While it would take a development action (likely in Piety), we could get some minimal benefit immediately if we take the action and are successful in it:
Slayer Anderson said:
None of them are really intended to be ready for the invasion this turn, but you could manage to develop about 200 Field Medics/Doctors from either option's initial development actions and, yes, this would add an additional bonus to keep loses from mounting during extended campaigns or operations.
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Hawkmoon said:
For the second action I'm torn between starting Recruitment (which is a 2 year action) to expand our psionic staff or Alchemical Practitioners so Lelouch isn't the only one crafting potential equipment for our troops. I am leaning towards Recruitment as the Alchemical Practitioners seems more like an income action but I might be wrong. It could also help create a core of Alchemists to train others gained from Recruitment.
There might also be an expedition to the Anatolia region. Which I am conflicted about since it might open another can of worms while we are dealing with China due to what is near that location. I am of course talking about the Thought Elevator that should be somewhere around Semnan Province in Iran. The world map isn't covering the Semnan Province as under Britannian control but I wouldn't count on Slayer not moving the location slightly in this quest to mess with our OOC knowledge as this is an AU.
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If we are not going to go for the Mantle Questline, I would go for the Alchemical Practitioners. Because I don't see it being an income action, considering we still haven't secured a supply of the "blue stuff" (eezo) to make enough sakuradite. And the other potential metals are just too strange to sell currently on the market if we manage to teach Crowley's cultists how to make them.

No, its most likely to just have the ability make the materials in the first place for the other projects to unlock their benefits. Which is why I think we should take the weapon/artifact analysis and the alchemy-training together to make it feasible for our shinobi to have the first batch of equipment, because you cannot really replicate the designs you've reverse engineered if you cannot make the materials they are made out of. Which the New Heaven stuff and Thunstone's sword should provide plenty example to study from.
 
I think we need Alchemy practitioners so we can move towards a third action. If I remember correctly an academy was needed for a third learning action so I figure it's a number and orginization problem that gates the third action of something.

Edit: To be clear I don't think this alone will get us a third action, just go further down the tree.
 
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Darkcore41 said:
I think we need Alchemy practitioners so we can move towards a third action. If I remember correctly an academy was needed for a third learning action so I figure it's a number and orginization problem that gates the third action of something.

Edit: To be clear I don't think this alone will get us a third action, just go further down the tree.
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Recruitment will be closer to the path of us having a 3rd action due to needing to increase the size of our cult. We also need to find a competent Piety advisor. Since Lelouch won't be able to manage an expanded psionic institute. Similar how Lelouch turned over the Intrigue section to Sayoko and still needs middle management under her to due to the size of the operation.
It will still be a while off anyway as we rushed the 3rd Intrigue action due to crazy crits.
 
If we are tapping our psionic infiltrators and shinozaki specialist for people capable of learning healing as part of psionic medics I'd rather not take it. Our Shinobi are every bit as much an asset for impacting this wars outcome as our navy and nightmares. However many of the Eunoch's forces we pull off with our attack on southern china, it's intrique actions that have a chance to impact the forces they bring against her. If we can successfully disrupt communication or sabotage knightmare deployment it'll be a battle decider.
 
[X][CtN] Accept +200 Income for the Action.

I would rather take the income now than chance a worse roll next turn if it even gets voted for again.
 
Slayer Anderson said:
Actually, the QM said:

But don't quote me.

I already did it.



...oh, and I'll be looking to call the vote in a few hours. Say three or four? We've got a pretty firm mandate on most of it anyway.
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I'll say. Unanimous Empress, 95% china. Should be fun. I like that we have Xingke on hand for whatever we have planned, tho I really wish we had pick his personal and had an SL to build off of. Any chance we get one if the attack succeeds?

Darkcore41 said:
A worse roll then 5? What are you expecting a nat 1?
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Doesn't have to be worse, just bad enough to not clear any DC besides 30, assuming the DC is fixed. If we achieve the same results having spent a second action on it, that is an undeniably worse outcome.
 
[X][CCW] You will declare for the Empress.
[X][TOA] China
[X][CtN] Reject Completed Action as Insufficient.
[X][ARA] Technical Research Staff (Jaeger Expands Psionic Specialties/Organic Experimentation Bonuses)
 
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