Fortunately Cathay and the Empire fighting is a prospect even more logistically challenging than the War of the Beard.
They're on a diet.Why doesn't Cathay, the largest faction, simply not eat the other factions?
Because the developers want you to play Warhammer Fantasy and not Legend of the Five Rings.Why doesn't Cathay, the largest faction, simply not eat the other factions?
Why doesn't Cathay, the largest faction, simply not eat the other factions?
We're discussing a part of Warhammer Fantasy that has been left unexplored for a very long time being finally unveiled, which has created some excitement, in a thread that is about a story about Warhammer Fantasy that is currently in a drought, as there hasn't been a vote in several days and the winner hasn't changed in more than a week. Considering how much of Karak Eight Peak's profits and future prosperity come from that land in the far east, discussing it is hardly irrelevant.
It's about Warhammer Total War 3, which includes Cathay.
So this is random, but last planning phase, there was a decent amount of support for EIC: Investigate what trade goods the Eonir might be willing to import from the Empire.
The Eonir economy is fine actually. House Miriel are worried that their dominance over Eonir trade will wane when their market is flooded with Ulthuan's products, but that is a largely irrelevant concern born of ignorance. Ulthuan does not trade nearly as much as House Miriel seems to believe for them connecting to the Empire causing their market to be flooded, and even if they had access the crafts from Ulthuan would be unbelievably expensive because that's what Marienburg does. They have exclusive contracts with Ulthuan that lets them acquire their stuff early, then they put an unbelievably high mark up on it and sell it in the Old World.
I think you might have misinterpreted my post. I'd genuinely been skimming the thread and was getting increasingly confused as to what was a real game vs thread madness, and didn't want to get interested in a game that turned out not to exist. This Cathay stuff seemed cool, but it'd be a bit stupid of me to fall for a made-up thread meme
They have to have some serious quarries because they use marble to build nearly everything. They have abundant silver and gold but much of it is needed to keep the Lornalim alive. They do however have an entire tower made of Silver, so that's certainly a statement on how much they have. They lack mountains within their territory, but they somehow have access to obsidian, so who knows what they have access to. Maybe they do have some sort of Metal spirit that spits out metals every now and then from a deep pit into the ground. Wouldn't even strain my SOD at this point.
Novelty trinkets might be a crowd pleaser, but are unlikely to have much impact on which Houses are open to outsiders, at least compared to something like the ability to cut Nordland off from monetary support for renewed aggression.
I'm not talking about novelty. I'm talking about stuff that would improve their livelihood that they might not have had access to for a very long time. I don't know why you're suggesting that we should form such a deep connection with them that they would have the ability to cut off Nordland from the Empire. Do you want to start a war? That sounds like a prime way to start a war. We're not here to side with the Laurelorn against Nordland and give them the power to shut down one of our primary defences against the Norscans. We're here to make them happy, not give them leverage over the Empire.
I don't know about that, a lot of the city was built at the hight of the elf empire were they could have sourced the material from all over the old world.
Permanent transmutation is impossible unless you're operating at the divine scale or you're turning an object from a valuable one to a worthless one, like Balthasar Gelt demonstrated once. People have constantly sought permanent transmutation and have failed to achieve it. Even Final Transmutation is temporary.
