Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180114010136/@comment-31763506-20180204084603

If you've got lots of money, you have plenty of options for improving the Military and Magic and can do it immediately, and consequently don't need to dedicate a research program to improving them. If you're poor, and think the presumed attack comes sooner rather than later, this might be your only chance to reinforce against it, because you need to dedicate ProN to becoming less poor.