To be blunt if you want to make a meaningful difference you should vote to leave the cities/hives at 2 or even 1.
Honestly it's just pissing me off that people are outright ignoring the fact the freaking QM pointed out that yes, even if the force is small it would in fact help since said forces are elite and the best at fighting daemons. You'd think people would not go 'but it's fine, we have enough' crap after people said the same exact thing when it was suggested that we send more aid to Ridcully even though people knew he would be a prioty target. Do people remember how that ended up?
If you want to stack those decks why don't you leave the cities/hives at 1 or 2? That will free up a great deal of PDF and Helltroopers. Sure, we'll lose Billions more Avernites to the incursion but to be blunt they are worth less than a Major Favor from the Eldar.
Because we need to also be intact enough for the Nid invasion in a decade.
Any force would help. The point is not to monofocus on thinking we must spend everything at all costs to minimize damage.
Spend a Minor favor on the Nid invasion then. It literally gets more forces than Avernus' contribution.
We have one and are getting another from Vlad's little adventure.
One left over from the Isha thing, one from the Khaine/Khorne thing, and one from Vlad's thing, assuming it goes well.
The Khaine/Khorne thing got retconned to a minor favor. And Vlad's mission already passed.
The Khaine/Khorne thing has been retconned to a Minor Favor.
Vlad's mission requires multiple rolls to pass.
Apparently the Khaine one is a minor.
We are not spending everything. It's one freaking favor and it's to increase our chances of not using several of the Trusts assets including Lin and Ridcully with the latter responsible for most of the favors if not all that the Trust has in the first place.
Considering that we are eating a freaking incursion aimed entirely at us with the intent to kill Saint Lin and with Ridcully likely being major prioty target as well it does seem like it would make an important difference since the QM himself noted that they would be really good against something like the exact things we are fighting including the Exalted who could kill most of our heroes including Lin.
It is literally one of the Trust's lifelines that we are going to spend incredibly inefficiently.
Ridcully nearly died when an Honoured practically appeared out of nowhere and attacked him during an anti-psyker Incursion. We were not 'stingy with reinforcements'. Lin didn't even get a roll to see whether he would die or not.
Except it is not we asked Durin if anyone in the Trust would be angry if we used the favor and he said no and that the only thing that would piss the Trust off is if we made a stupid mistake that got Lin killed.
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