Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20190603183719/@comment-36170150-20190729031102

While I will hold back from doing any serious routing until the next update, I will share some thoughts.

So the best outcome final values for the Erosian, Tower, and Ghenalese fronts will probably be 30, 27, and 30, respectively (The final reward check for the Erosian front is still missing, it will probably come in the war aftermath in the next patch).

Reinforcing Zirantia in the Tanurak section is necessary to prevent great country score loss. With that exception in mind, the Ghenalese Front seems to demand the players full attention otherwise, requiring priority whenever a choice allows it. So the only room left for juggling trade-offs between the fronts is with the Erosian Front vs the Tower front.

With the changes to the War Bonus rewards and playing with the "Hold Back" path, I believe the best bet the player has to winning both fronts is to choose to reinforce the Erosian Front during Tower Crossroads 5, effectively a 5 points swing, so it becomes necessary the player can otherwise acquire a total of 32 Tower Front points to make up for it, which is easier said than done. Alternatively, the "Early Troops" path trivializes the problem by starting with an extra 5 Erosian Front points, making it so the player can win both fronts if they choose to reinforce the Tower Front instead during Tower Crossroads 5, although it does come at the price of 4 Ginasta RP.

Dari's transformation and the orcsphere together are redundant, since they both mostly act on the Ghenalese Battlefield, which is a shame because I really don't want to skip either. Skipping Dari's research feels like a bad idea because this would postpone her transformation until chapter 5, and skipping the orcsphere is questionable since who knows when we will have another chance to make one.

This is speculation, but with the way the war ended, I think the best order for the new researches would be Demonic Research first and then Tower Delving second. My reasoning is that we will be working with Sabitha after the war, so having the research done would be for the best, and we might get another research opportunity before the end of chapter 4, so Tower Delving could be selected then and researched during the timeskip between chapter 4 and chapter 5.

So ideally I would like to do Dari's transformation, Demonic research, and the orcsphere. But doing all 3 of those leaves me at a 3 Tower Front deficit in the "Hold Back" route. I could get extra Tower front by replacing one of those with their counterparts (Base defence, Tower Delving, and Vhala's sanctity plate), the question is which ones will mess me up the least.

Also unless something crazy happens in the aftermath, I think it is safe to skip airship militarization for the time being. Which is nice since now I need to buy Wendis' base upgrade to get the best counterattack bonus.

Edit: Tower Front goal number and info