Preliminary plan, not counting costs yet and all:
[-] Plan Relieving Bechafen + Getting Viewpoints on Spellcasters
-[X] The Ongoing War: 2 Dices + 1 Locked IC Dice
--[X] Direct the Iron Companies Must Beat: 50 2 Dices + 1 Locked IC Dice
---[X] Make haste into Bechafen with any Ottilian Forces that might join in but don't wait too long either.
--[X] The Other City
-[X] Diplomacy: 4 Dices
--[X] Engage with a Noble, Notable or Cult (Van Hal of the Iron Tower) Cost: 200 Marks per Die Must Beat: 50
1 Dice
---[X] Start the discussion on what he might advise Wissenland with regards to anti-vampiric inventions and potential strategies against Undead. Veer the discussion about the trouble in Solland and specifically, about his views on "Witches" and the nature of his aid from the West.
--[X] Engage with a Noble, Notable or Cult (Grail Knight D'Aquitaine) Cost: 200 Marks per Die Must Beat: 50
1 Dice
---[X] This is the first time Bismarck ever met a Grail Knight. Start with easy topics like military tactics and fighting necromancies before seguing to talk about The Lady and about the capabilitiy of his nation's blessed priestess.
--[X] Engage with a Noble, Notable or Cult (Arch Lector of Nuln) Cost: 200 Marks per Die Must Beat: 50
2 Dices
---[X] Have Mariele Althaus as our Ambassador do the talking here, as Bismarck is busy campaigning.
---[X] Talk about the concerns of the Sigmar's faithful with regards to the, for lack of better word, impotency of the Reikland Emperor and how it might harm the Sigmarites congregations. While the current Von Leibwitzes are not Sigmarites, Bismarck at least care about the congregations and support the Cult. The Ulricans will not. Remark that Wissenlander bloc might be the only choice Reikland has, short of falling into the sphere of their Ulrican or Ottilian rivals.
-[X] Stewardship: 3 Dices
--[X] A Temple of the White Wolf Cost: 4,000 Marks and 2,000 Materials per Die Required Effort: 228/250
1 Dice
--[X] Riverine Docks (Meissen) Cost: 1,000 Marks and 200 Materials per Die. Required Effort: 145/150
1 Dice
--[X] Riverine Docks (Sauerapfel) Cost: 1,000 Marks and 200 Materials per Die. Required Effort: 0/250
1 Dice
-[X] Military: 1 Dice
--[X] Fortify the Border (Grenzstadt Town) Cost: 400 Materials per Die Required Effort: 2,389/2,500
1 Dice
A very talk heavy plan, the intent for this plan is to try and capitalize on different things as well as saving costs for a bit on Marks until the Temple is done. Do the Van Hal and Grail Knight talks because they would have interesting insights against undead fights and of course, knowledge on spell/blessed castings.
More importantly about the Sigmarites though:
Cult of Sigmar
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Relationship: +74
For all that the Grand Theogonist and the Wissenland may have clashed, the Arch-Lector of Nuln remains at the head of the largest cult of the Wissenland and seems happy enough to take Wissenland's side in the schism. Empowering the Order of the Silver Hammer within the Province has assured the Arch-Lector that whatever the strain may be with Reikland, you will not allow it to harm the Sigmarites of Wissenland.
Once again, from letting the Sigmarites have a hand at the Von Leibwitz's dynasty's educations to keeping the Stirland congregation free and just generally not rocking the boat, Wissenland have high rapport with well, the founding cult of the Empire in spite of everything that happened. So let's leverage that, not the least because the Cult's self interests would not allow the historical seat of the Empire just go towards an Emperor Claimant single-handedly, regardless whether they win an election or not and
especially if they're not Sigmarites. The now dead Marienburg Empress did won her election and the Reikland Emperor (and Theogonist) just went 'nope, you won nothing', leading to this current era of the Three/Four Emperors.
What the Cult does with our word of warning is up to them, but it does at least signal that until such a time that a 'proper Sigmarite' rule over Reikland, being the junior partner to Wissenland's totally-not-Imperial-Claimant bloc is the best thing it can hope for, at least for this generation.
