...Well, crap.
OK, good reason to take the 'conference' and 'outreach' options and use them seriously. I don't think it's quite time to hold the conference yet but it is definitely time for outreach.
Well yes. The Russians have been trying, in a rather sporadic fashion, to kill Burns ever since the Pacific War. It's why he'd retreated into the central, relatively inaccessible parts of North America. And it's why nobody ELSE like Burns is around and still active with a similarly powerful force- because the Russians methodically obliterated every such remnant unit equipped with operational Old World Equipment and a high standard of performance and training.
Well...we don't know who Sister Cali has groomed since the war.
Thats what the Sith did to the Jedi in Star wars yeah.
Indeed.
Now I want a Film about Burn's life before we met him...DEAR GOD THAT SOUNDS AWESOME for a SET PIECE!!
A few times. He was never thrilled to; they are as good as the Devils, but their gear is better and they don't have to be as stingy with it.
Hm...it focuses more on the big players and true international outreach, but sure, I'd say it at least drops a line to everybody with whom you have regular contact. It's not exactly a massive diplomatic offensive, mind; it's just that trying to simultaneously have effective First Contact with the entire planet is a big undertaking, and you can only spread yourself so far.
Not to anybody's knowledge. It'd be brave in a very specific and strange way for a Victorian officer to voice that opinion, though.
OK, well to be fair, that sounds like the kind of thing that avoids a "stares silently" effect on everyone? So we can do that and don't have to call the conference right away to avoid being the scary violent loner?
Oh nice! 5/5 hardened killers with infinite uses of old world equipment 2: new world boogaloo! That's terrifying!
I don't really think the issue with Victoria and drones is that drones of the sort you're talking about (where they act as an extension of an infantryman for scouting/sabotage) are against 4th gen tenets. The bigger issue is that Victoria has spent 40 odd years mainlining retroculture, so very few Victorians would even think of bitty flying things of plastic with a camera/payload as a thing at all, let alone think of them as cheap/disposable enough to mass produce.
Er...probably something snide about how they don't even need to waste warm bodies on the air force anymore?
It avoids the, "staring silently," effect, yes.
Happy to help.
Anti-fascist action is pretty important. We have to remember that enemies internal and external have their own actions. If we leave the fascists alone they *will* recover and the longer we leave them be the more actions they have to screw us over or reentrench themselves. Better to strike while the iron is hot and we've shattered the Victorian aura of invincibility and the justification of the fascists pointing to Victorian 'successes'.
But they will attend, and imagine how happy they'll be when we don't do that.
I agree that we need to quash the fascists as soon as we can, but the diplomatic situation and refugee crisis are just more important right now. I think we should leave them for next turn. Leaving them alone for even one turn isn't great and we may suffer for it, but there's not a whole lot they can actually do in that time. The Unionists have been disgraced as a political party, and their main foreign backer is in the middle of a civil war.
I think that spending one action now on it while it's easy is worth it.
Remember the example of how Burns turning inwards allowed the Vics to steal a march on Great Lakes diplomacy?
I think that works better in diplomacy and politics (where being present and actively engaging rivals counts for a lot).
I just don't think it's going to become that much more difficult next turn. I mean, it's definitely not ideal, but I didn't want to strip AP away from any of the other options, especially all of them are time-sensitive too. I'm trying to finish a lot of actions in a signle turn, and unfortunately I just couldn't justify leaving any of them incomplete, because that just means we'd be tying up AP next turn.
Yes, and I've often advocated for using a more shotgun approach with our planning precsiely because of that. But in this case, I feel like it's more advantageous to try and finish specific projects to get immediately useful benefits.
