A Hello to Arms (Battalion)
You look around and consider your options for increasing your offensive power.
Your spies want more windows to peer out of. Your engineers worry that it will make you more vulnerable to siege weaponry.
| Add more windows | [Increase Psychological attack, decrease Castle defense] |
Your watchtowers gleam with newly-constructed windows.
Psychological attack strength increased. Castle defense strength decreased.
Your general proposes a radical new approach to combat -- one that dispenses with antiquated notions like the survival of your citizenry and the reduction in collateral infrastructure damage.
| Adopt the radical combat style | [Increase all attack strengths, decrease all defense.] |
You are intrigued by this general's ideas, and you make it mandatory for all citizens to subscribe to his newsletter.
All attack strengths increased. All defense strengths reduced.
Your architect proposes an across-the-board rennovation of your walls and facilities. Everybody is pretty much agreed that this is a good idea.
| Approve the retrofit | [Increase all attack strengths] |
You undergo a tip-to-toe cosmetic rennovation.
All attack strengths increased.
A sculptor wants to build a war memorial near your exterior wall, but your engineers warn that it will get in the way of your catapults.
| Build the memorial | [Increase Military and Psychological attack, decrease Castle attack] |
You allow the construction of the war memorial. It is glorious.
Military and Psychological attack strength increased. Castle attack strength decreased.
A local mural painter approaches you and asks if you want a free sample.
| Commission some art | [Increase Psychological attack strength] |
You squat down near the artist and let her paint a really intimidating mural next to your drawbridge.
Psychological attack strength increased.
A band of mercenary soldiers is camped by a nearby stream.
| Conscript the soldiers | [Increase Military attack strength] |
The soldiers begrudgingly join your army and move into your barracks.
Military attack strength increased.
One of your captains suggests drafting some of your artisans into the military.
| Draft those artists | [Increase Military attack, decrease Psychological defense] |
You convince some of your Bohemian layabout slackers to get a real job, in the army.
Military attack strength increased. Psychological defense strength decreased.
You consider adopting a more careless approach to combat. It could work. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
| Get sloppy | [Increase all attack strengths, decrease all defense] |
You loosen up all of your cannons.
All attack strengths increased. All defense strengths reduced.
There is a proposal to increase the height of your keep by six stories. Everybody is on board with this except the general, who thinks it will distract your soldiers too much.
| Improve the keep | [Increase Castle and Psychological attack, decrease Military attack] |
Your keep is extended, and so is your glory.
Castle and Psychological attack strength increased. Military attack strength decreased.
Your engineers suggest encouraging the locals to vandalize your more provocative murals with cheese, thickening the walls. Your artisans, unsurprisingly, are not excited about this idea.
| Let the citizens hurl cheese at you | [Increase Castle attack, decrease Psychological defense, get cheese] |
You allow the locals to hurl cheese at your walls, thickening them but upsetting your artisans. Also some of the cheese doesn't stick to the walls, so you stuff it in your treasury.
You gain 13 cheese!
Your generals propose a new tax on the citizenry, to go toward the improvement of your soldiers. Your engineers worry that letting people inside the castle to actually pay the taxes will weaken your defense against sieges.
| Levy the tax | [Increase Military attack, decrease Castle defense, get cheese.] |
You institute the new tax. Your soldiers cheer, your engineers jeer. They engijeer.
You gain 15 cheese!
Your spies want you to send some of your soldiers into a nearby village to get jobs at a cheese factory. The generals believe this will weaken your position.
| Trade soldiers for cheese | [Increase Psychological attack, decrease Military defense, get cheese] |
You sacrifice some of your soldiers to the capitalist cheese machine.
You gain 17 cheese!
There's a quarry nearby filled with very sharp boulders.
| Pick up the boulders | [Increase Castle attack strength] |
You pick up the sharpest boulders and stick them to your various walls and crenellations.
Castle attack strength increased.
Your engineers and soldiers want you to reinforce some of your more dilapidated exterior walls. The artisans don't want that because they think the graffiti is cool.
| Strengthen the walls | [Increase Military and Castle attack, decrease Psychological attack] |
You cover the unsightly graffiti with sightly steel plates.
Military and Castle attack strength increased. Psychological attack strength decreased.
Your siege engineers want to widen your arrow slits to accomodate their trebuchets. Your military advisors are against it.
| Widen the arrow slits | [Increase Castle attack, decrease Military defense.] |
You feel a cool breeze against your keep as the arrow slits become boulder slits.
Castle attack strength increased. Military defense strength decreased.
Occurs at Bastille Battalion when focusing on offense.
