Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-130.225.247.34-20191209223735/@comment-36170150-20191230185926

@Dank Potatoes

If you're skipping sanitation mages then I don't really see the point of whoring Qum, yes you can use it to get to the Reunion with an extra 70k-ish ProN but there's nothing amazing to spend it on, without whoring Qum I can get all 3 banks and the post 3AW investments just fine if I skip the sanitation mages, you might pull ahead 1 cheap investment (Like Yhilini Mercenaries HQ or something) but I don't think that's worth any possible future penalty for whoring Qum. For the record I could get the New Givini tunnels before the Synod, I don't do it because I want to afford the excavation before the Thenoursian War. I question the value of [Tak'kan Major] over [Tak'kan Minor], it is just an extra 6 new nations score (which I value less since they are really easy to increase with investments of all sorts), 1 religion score, and a discount of 400k for investments I don't pick up until the end of chapter 4.

@Fulminato

10 Agi will very rarely make Simon outspeed something he otherwise wouldn't, and by the time you get the Incubus Glove he will already be the fastest party member except for Aka. The incubus cache is very optional in my opinion.

Having Sarai go all in on the Tak'Kan vote only costs 2 influence by the end of the Synod, I don't know what strategy you're using for the Synod, but if you go for the one where you tell Hester you're there to get acceptance for succubi and use Jhenno to get the best result during the Unity Vote you should have spare influence (it means less Hester score over "shape the world" but we don't have much reason to think that will matter).

Regarding Ardford restaurant vs Ardford Supplier, I don't think the Ardford Supplier is ever worthwhile, hear me out:

Speaking solely for the 50k ProN you'd normally spend on the supplier, if you get the supplier you will have 25k ProN after the war, if you get the restaurant you will have 35k (25k saved + 10k return), by the first round of chapter 4 you will have 30k with the supplier and 45k with the restaurant, with the resturant you'd be 15k ProN ahead and the lead would increase by 5k every round after this until after the Synod.

You said you need the supplier to not go below 175 army size because you sacrifice more army during the BoY to be able to clean all the chaos without spending DF, but what if you just spend 10% DF to fix the chaos after the BoY and skip the Monastery Renovation? With the Ivalan bank you should have the Religion score to deal with the holy legion during the 3AW, ending chapter 3 with 15% DF leftover would give you an extra 5k ProN, so by the first round of Chapter 4 you'd be 20k ahead with the restaurant over the supplier, just 5k short of being able to cover the expenses of getting the First Aid Station renovation during chapter 4 for 25k (which gives almost all the same bonuses, a bit less Sarai RP but not enough to matter).

This way you will be 5k ahead by the Synod, and you won't have to deal with the markup for the restaurant, yes you will be missing the 5k from the supplier but I doubt the game will have enough iterations left for it to even makeup for the restaurant's markup. Unless the Ardford Supplier is gonna have another role before the game is over, this would mean getting the restaurant is at least a little bit better.