Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-43871688-20190922205428/@comment-36170150-20190923020057

Not asking for extra money is important to maximize your ProN. Since you will have less money at first, skip the bridge repair, get the Bank Staff investment by having Trin copy the clerk, the mine with the discount from having Megail in your harem, and then you need to choose between either Premium Steel + Public Works (better RP and army variables) or Megail's Special Supplier (better ProN). I generally favor the later. You will finish chapter 1 with just 5k, but at the start of chapter 2 you can get another 5k the copy bank clerk managed to skim, this will give you 10k which is enough for the Stineford magic shop.

Your other investments can stay mostly the same, you'll have an extra 50k during Megail's route so you can pick up the Eustrin Manufacturer for not getting money from Megail, and you can get an extra 20k, 10k from the bank clerk if you optimized your run, and 10k from the mine, this should cover the extra costs from not having the bridge fixed.

You'll have an extra 100k during the Reunion for not asking Megail for extra money, which at the moment is where investment routes diverge a lot, some people go for 3 banks, some people go for "2.5" banks (skip the Yhilin bank because you can get it in chapter 4 earlier than the other 2), and some people still go for just 2 banks, skipping the Ivalan one. Each route has their own benefits and their own challenges. Regardless of how you want to do your Reunion investments, you will face the following challenges that you need to keep in mind:

1) Your army variables will be low, since you skipped both early Premium Steel and the Eustrin Supplier, you won't be able to get the best threshold for army quality UNLESS you make Robin research Orc Development first instead of Essence Shielding, so keep that in mind.

2) Aka's RP will be low, the safest way of making sure it gets to 80 for the Battle of Yhilin is to give her the "talked to first" bonus for who you talked to first during the Reunion. Alternatively you can scrap enough points if you get Premium Steel during the reunion and have Nalili train with her.

Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about getting a super perfect Battle of Yhilin, just make sure Chaos and Collateral Damage are below 5 so you don't need to spend Discretionary Funds on the big repairs. But otherwise, skipping the Monastery Renovation doesn't really hurt you a lot, it costs the pittance of 25k ProN to get during Chapter 4 and you should be able to make it without the extra stats until then, skipping it frees up 25% DF in case you need it to clear any remaining chaos points or getting some extra victory points. Also I wouldn't worry too much about your Army Size at the end of the Battle of Yhilin, as long as you can manage the "Clustered" battle you will have plenty of Army Size for the 3AW and the Thenoursian War assuming you optimize everything else.