Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-130.225.247.34-20191209223735/@comment-130.225.247.34-20191213194614

One thing that still confuses me, is that so many people still talk about picking up the War Monument or Givini Mage Guild before the Ardford Crisis, just for 1 additional decrease to Donovan's suitor score, after the latest update. We now have a practically consequence-free way of reducing his suitor score to 0 in Stineford, even without the Monument. If there was ever a time it seemed like it was worth it to me, it's gone now. I have a feeling that the second part of the Succesion will be very easy for optimizers: The only rival with a score of 2 or higher left is Bhakan. The rest are allies. An unrelated matter to concider about the Battle of Yhilin chaos, is if it's even worth going out of your way to make sure it's zero in the first Yhilin governing phase, if you don't plan on investing in Country-Wide mercenaries, which seems less important after Erosia. If you spend 10% on reducing chaos you can still invest in everything except for Aram Border and Country-Mercs (and noble gratuity, duh!), leaving you at a neat 0% budget remaining. Now that the Erosian War has showed that the post-3AW army size isn't all that influential i think it may be worth concidering optimizing the early chapters in ways that don't rely on an absolutely perfect Battle of Yhilin. By making sure you have a bit of extra cash-generation going on, you can easily get that +5 army size for Erosia by simply having the pron for an additional army-increasing investment