Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-130.225.247.34-20191209223735/@comment-39120971-20191214145816

Skipping the Dusty Horde means another petitioner will appear after the BoY and ask to deal with them. You only have so many units in your army to address the petitioners, so getting rid of them for the 10k seems worth it to me (AriGarda even moreso thanks to the bonus they grant in chapter 4).

I also think at least the DF part in Chapter 3 is quite simple to optimize, at least compared to the rest of our investments, your funds are set from the start and there is an ideal order to cover just about everything, and projects you might want to skip like Country Mercenaries and Border Reinforcement (at least for Aram) because of the opportunity cost of getting other things instead. But all of it hinges on ending BoY without Chaos or CD that will require cleaning up later, and honestly that is the biggest roadblock for cruising through DF in chapter 3.

Though I must say, while the Ivalan Bank offers better returns than the Yhilin Bank for chapter 4, without its RP bonus I come a bit short of getting Megail to 100 prior to raiding the Jade Clearinghouse (I could give her the Reunion bonus but since I skipped Premium Steel round one I need to give that to Aka so she can deal with the airship). I guess I'll just have to settle for Ardan and Yhilin Banks and get the Ivalan Bank in chapter 4. As much as I appreciate more ProN, if it comes at a cost in hidden values (and Megail gives a nice bonus for getting to 100 RP in time) then I figure it's a worthwhile trade-off after all.