Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170903163532/@comment-32539089-20171003074044

Fluid-decanter wrote: But I digress, I'm more interested in knowing what an optimal route through Third Arclent War would look like. For instance, I was unable to get 200 army size, which cuts me off from an additional army extension (I was stuck with 5), which put me in a bind...since I had to overextend on the last decision. Even though I passed the Yhilin Coup threshold to get +1 extension...I'm going to assume it was eaten by my overextension on the very last deployment choice. I would have liked to select at least 1-2 military options post-war, but I'm not sure what that would look like for prior decisions... You don't have to use every extension during the war. And if the coup part of the war goes reasonably well you get a military deployment back for the conference chamber part. I also had just shy of 200 army size going into the 3rd Arclent War, and had 5 army extensions to work with. I was able to complete the war with 2 army extensions available for petitions without sacrificing anything I wanted (4/5 extensions spent +1 extension for Yhilin Coup results). Granted, I achieved this by obsessively pouring over the Third Arclent War guide (and if you chose to do as I did, then I recomend using a notepad or spreadsheet to keep track of everything).

Of the options to send troops, the only 2 that I consider to be vital are: the very 1st option to send an extra troop to protect the refugees at the begining of the Aram side of the war (army ext. -1), and sending troops to support both fronts after the Incubus Superking and his unsuccubi attack Ardoheim (army ext. -2).

Sending backup after Aram's disasterous 1st offensive may or may not be necessary depending on how well you're doing on that front. If you're forced to overextend at any point, then something has probably gone awry.