So thinking about what to do with our favors.
I think Durin mentioned that the Eldar could redirect a waagh to strike Turoq's forces for a minor favor, though It was unclear whether he was answering with regards to either a roving waagh, or our local Ork domain.
It would be especially useful if he was talking about the local Ork domain.
This would allow us the cheapest option for going on the offensive, namely that the enemy forces would be pinned in place so our fleet could get over there.
With the potential disadvantage of the Dark Mechanicus not caring and attacking anyway, let's not do this.
Other options include using a minor favor to somehow cripple the motion of their fleets. Or maybe a minor favor would be enough to get a surprise Eldar warhost out of nowhere to wipe out Turoq while he's attacking, specifically with the goal of getting Areatha and some support to kill Turoq, then scaring off the rest of his fleet, that way we can focus nearly all our forces on defending the Core Worlds from the Dark Mechanicus, and they could stop by to help, or to hunt down retreating Dark Mechanicus and prevent them from taking info back.
I sort of don't want to spend it to just wipe them out, we already asked Areatha for help so we might as well get to give her that fight, but there was mention of a major favor being enough to wipe out all of the neighboring ork and Chaos polities.
I think they wouldn't want to fight the Necrons without something much bigger, as their cold war situation implies some sort of agreement or understanding between them.
And I don't actually want to wipe out all those local groups just yet, we can't hold that ground and it would make war with the local Necrons an inevitability. Splitting up a major favor into multiple incidents of assistance VS local powers serves multiple purposes, allowing us time to expand and fortify areas that have been wiped, and to give the Necrons the impression that the local humans have the Eldar willing to consistently offer aid and work alongside the humans, making them less inclined to casually invade the instant the war in the Void ends, I want to make them hesitate.
There are some other interests to pursue, we already have the costs for local area webway access, or for hiding and reconstructing the STC, both of which are honourbound and would let us grow much more.
But we are also short on merchant ships and population, we could have them direct uncorrupted refugees our way, to increase our store of both. This could be effective but would have varying levels of use depending on how much we want to spend on it.
Finally something I really want to do that would benefit us in the long term, I want to get ahold of Eldar lore and maybe training on redirecting Orkz, so it's no longer a fifty fifty split as to whether they attack us or the intended target.
@Durin
1. When you explained that it would cost a minor favor to redirect Orkz into Turoq were you talking about a wandering waagh or the locals?
2. If you weren't talking about the locals, how much would the Eldar convincing the local domain to unite and bypass us and Dragon's Nest to attack an enemy, like Turoq or the Necrons, cost?
3. Would getting a support force able to take out Turoq(maybe with Areatha riding along), then assist us in battle/hunt down retreating ships/help our counter attack campaign, presumably under contract for five?ten? Years or the end of the current war, whichever comes last(because I'm expecting an Ork interrupt), be a minor favor?
4. Could we get any elaboration on the Necron cold war situation? IE. how it affects favor use against them?
5. Would getting refugees help much with the merchant ship shortage, and productivity/population per planet increases? Is it really useful? redundant? Some sort of context would be welcome.
6. How much would Eldar derived improvement to our methods of dealing with Ork manipulation help and what would it cost?
