Well, a journeyman will usually be more useful than a simple apprentice. Just that in regards to EIC, I do want Mathilde to personally deal with it rather than a journeyman. EIC current situation is a tad sensitive at the moment and the less people that knows about it the better. Also, we are basically in home territory at the moment and there isn't a lot of point in doing stuff like stealing ledgers when we can probably just ask for them since Mathilde has a high enough position and reputation.
If we do want a Grey Journeymanlings, I rather have them deal with stuff like skaven infiltrators which might be an issue in the not so distant future. If not, more combat oriented Journeymans would be useful for the retaking and defenses of K8P. Just dealing with EIC I feel is a bit of a waste and potential breach of secrecy if we involved them too much.
EIC is not a secret at all though. Grey Order knows all there is to know about it, they just trust Mathilde to be the Magister responsible for keeping an eye on it. There is no secrecy to breach.
So increasing a number of people in the know, as long as we still seem to be in control of situation and not trying to make it someone else's problem, is perfectly fine, I think.
And "I do want Mathilde to personally deal with it" - that's why I am concerned though. We have 0-2 actions free to do our own things if we take direct action with EIC + take control of 2 wizards + no Collegiate.
If we hire a 3rd wizard to offload EIC to - to offload
anything at all to - without Collegiate we will need to spend another action on management, them being 3rd wizard, thus nullifying an action point gain.
With Collegiate we can do it this way, sure...but it's a whole trait, which are in high demand. Still, it'd mean that,
if we can offload EIC action to journeymanling, we are left with 1-3 free actions.
That's what I am driving towards. The way I understand it, the
only way to having a guaranteed at least 1 free action for our own research/projects each turn if we take EIC is to take Collegiate and outsource the EIC
anyway. Without doing it, we are returning towards it hampering our action economy.
It is somewhat better than what I said right now because a) some of Councillor actions are going to be what we wanted to do personally anyway; b) some of journeymanling actions will be things which are Councillor actions or close to that; c) it's 1-3, not 1, depending on how much on fire things are.
But it's still something of a tight spot.
edit: well, we can use journeymanling for supplementing us in other areas and taking direct control of EIC, I guess. Still means we need one to make up for action sink of EIC, so point still stands.
tl;dr:
Management is not a free action. Thus I foresee having hard choices between management and research if we take EIC (without taking Collegiate + journeymanling who'd actually take care of it).
