We are extremly unlikely to have the AP for training and even we could scrounge the AP we would have subpar training chances as Melkoth would be busy with his duties as Provost.
Disagree on several levels. This is exactly the sort of situation where we *would* prioritize spending the AP, because nothing is going to prepare is better for armies clashing than learning battlemagic. I'm treating this as the expected content of the self-improvement turn we always do when we are scared of an upcoming fight.
And we already know Melekoth's BM, pit and pendulum can be learned from someone with a better grasp of them in particular.
I don't know, did we expect to suddenly lead the combined dwarf expedition against literally all remaining foes in k8p? Because I certainly didn't.
So let's do it the other way around, can you guarantee us that we never will fight in a big army battle? Come one that one should be easy, it's what your whole premise is build upon!
Sure. We aren't going to fight in a big army battle for several turns.
How do I know?
We'd need two things for a big army battle: an army that we are attached to, and an army that we are going to fight. Neither of those things appear without quite a bit of forewarning. And since we need both at once....
Brettonia isn't going to be that bc we aren't part of their army, we're going to be a scout/assassin. Dark elves aren't coming in army size right now. Chaos is occupied with itself. Dwarfs are still ramping up and will be for a few more years. (Ironically might already be committed elsewhere when the chaos armies attack.)
@Glau , the whole thing about staff is to make Fog based spells easier by one category. Whispers are fog based apparition. If there is any apparition which can be discounted by our staff, it's that. And, well, if it is, who wouldn't want to be able to cast a Pit of Shades somewhat reliably, even if they aren't a Battle Mage. Being able to cast a Pit of Shades is reliably is just a nice thing to have in your back pocket.
It is. So is a unicorn. I view the unicorn as more likely than a reliable pit or pendulum, so I'd like to spend AP actually doing things we can do now rather than preparing to do something in a rare situation that might happen eventually sometime.
Apparitions I'm interested in from a creating new spells perspective much more than a mor BattleMagic perspective.
The expectation that we will know before hand that we are about to go support war effort, and that we will have time to learn/make some battle magics for it, seems optimistic at best.
Because armies are called up, organized, and sent to fight on a time scale of days rather than months, or what?
I feel like it's a safe assumption.
This feels like wishful thinking honestly. The answers to that could very well be "Right now" and "he's attacking now".
Cause at that point I don't feel an argument like "Mathilde needs to study battle magic instead of going to battle and helping save lives right now".
But the answers are much more likely to be "a few years" and "he's attacking Naggaroth/Cathay".
So until there's a reason to believe we are going to be supporting an army against another army in the near future, and that reason is solid enough to convince the emperor to start calling up armies, I'm not going to treat it as a live possibility.
