Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32767457-20190609052830/@comment-37966268-20190609150723

I followed the Gift to Megail route that The Scoutman alluded to, but at Reunion+Ardford I invested in Cache Excavation + Yhilin Supplier + Premium Steel + All the mercs + Crystal Refinery + Sanitation Mages + Ardford Supplier + 50k OoS + Ivalan/Ardan Bank.

Premium Steel is needed because I used my reunion RP on Megail (as I'm not buying the Yhilin Bank) in order to hit 80+ Aka RP.

Upside of this route is that the Pron during Chapter 4 is really good and you hit all the stuff that Fulminato mentioned (well minus becoming core lender in Yhilin Bank, but you can do that during Chp. 4 anyway. I'm pretty sure he needs it for the Megail RP since he doesn't get the gift. Correct me if I'm wrong).

Notably, with this route I think the major potential downside is the lower Ginasta RP, you can't afford Public Works 1 during the Reunion (unless you forego the Ardford Supplier for the Restaurant + Works, which maybe will work for you depending on your route) so you don't hit 100 Janine RP in time, and you can't max Aka RP either, so here you get -3 Ginasta RP. For all the existing Ginasta RP checks I'm pretty sure this doesn't end up mattering because even if you had max Ginasta RP up to this point (and had Varia reshaped + sided with Orilise) you still need to end up doing Purity Research first round anyway to hit the best Ginasta threshold in the war (of +1), but there might be more checks in the future so who knows.