Defensive Posturing
You consult your advisors about different ways you might increase your defensive capabilities.
Your artisans, predictably, suggest that you allow them to paint additional murals on your walls. Artisans love murals.
| Add more murals | [Increase Psychological defense] |
You let your artisans go to town on your walls. After they're done, they literally go to town, and do whatever artisans do for fun. Drugs probably.
Psychological defense strength increased.
Your advisors think that for safety's sake, every sharp part of you should be blunted a little bit.
| Blunt everything | [Increase all defenses, reduce all attack strengths] |
You blunt all of the sharp parts of (and objects inside) your walls.
All defense strengths increased. All attack strengths reduced.
One of your artisans proposes the construction of a giant living statue of a soldier, made out of several actual living soldiers.
| Build the weird statue | [Increase Psychological defense, reduce Castle attack strength] |
You convert several of your soldiers into a giant weird statue of a soldier.
Psychological defense strength increased. Castle attack strength decreased.
Your generals suggest converting some of your depraved art gallery space into nice, wholesome barracks.
| Convert the galleries | [Increase Military defense, reduce Psychological attack strength] |
Your once fun galleries become boring barracks.
Military defense strength increased. Psychological attack strength decreased.
Your artisans and engineers suggest a dramatic reduction in military spending, the savings from which would go toward civic and artistic projects.
| Cut military spending | [Increase Psychological and Castle defense, reduce Military defense] |
You reduce military spending and increase every other kind of spending. This is the kind of thing that would happen all the time if the world made any sense at all.
Psychological and Castle defense strength increased. Military defense strength decreased.
Your advisors recommend beating your swords into plowshares, your catapults into pallisades, and your paintbrushes into canvasses. You're not really sure how that last one is gonna work.
| Do the plowshares thing | [Increase all defenses, reduce all attack strengths] |
You let your advisors do all of the weird stuff they want to do.
All defense strengths increased. All attack strengths reduced.
Your artisans and soldiers are always wanting more stone, and your walls are made of stone. They think the solution is obvious.
| Lower the walls | [Increase Military and Psychological defense, reduce Castle defense] |
You reduce the height of your walls, and use the extra stone to build more barracks and art supply warehouses.
Military and Psychological defense strength increased. Castle defense strength decreased.
Your engineers suggest conscripting some of your soldiers (who were already conscripted once) into duty shoring up your walls.
| Make the soldiers masons | [Increase Castle defense, reduce Military attack strength] |
Your soldiers begrudgingly become masons.
Castle defense strength increased. Military attack strength decreased.
Your generals and engineers recommend repurposing some of your castle's statuary to a more practical purpose, like reinforcing the walls or giving soldiers things to hide behind that are less conspicuous than statues.
| Repurpose the statues | [Increase Military and Castle defense, reduce Psychological defense] |
You tear down some of your artisans' least favorite statues and put the stone to use elsewhere.
Military and Castle defense strength increased. Psychological defense strength decreased.
Your engineers suggest stopping by a nearby quarry and thickening your walls against siege attacks.
| Thicken the walls | [Increase Castle defense] |
You grab a lot of rocks from the quarry and stick them to your walls.
Castle defense strength increased.
Your advisors (especially the ones who are members of the Defense Party) suggest throwing a Defense Party, during which all of your citizens would pitch in to shore up various aspects of your defense.
| Throw the party | [Increase all defenses] |
Your Defense Party is a huge smash, and will hopefully make huge smashes against you less likely in the future.
All defense strengths increased.
Your generals recommend focusing on defensive training for your soldiers. This seems like the kind of thing generals would want.
| Train the soldiers | [Increase Military defense] |
You teach your soldiers how to hide behind things.
Military defense strength increased.
Occurs at Bastille Battalion when focusing on defense.
