Simians Vs Sanctuary

[jdorje]

BIO likely has different plans and politics than myself, but I mock the feary cow because as soon as it goes up, its a major danger to all friendly cows. BIO is in a position right now where it should be able to get any deal it wants with any kingdom, therefore it can isolate vs you and leave you with a 15-20k province that can't defend itself against an avian merchant cow and the largest kd base with which to support it with bounces if needed. It gives BIO a chance to put on 10k+ acres without even giving up ops.

You misunderstand the explore rate. For bio to explore an avian merchant on low draft from 6k to 20k would take 3-4 weeks. The econ mods of human (+30%) or faery (+60%) translate directly to proportionally more explored acres. Pool is not the limiting factor.

But yes there is a risk when you have -50% offense and -10% population. On the other hand, if it were a human or dwarf, I'm rather confident simians would have chained it by now so that wouldn't work out so well either. Conquest is all the rage these days and their bigs have nobody else to hit, and they have 5 faery t/ms. We had a limited window of just a few days to grow a province from 2-3k up past inzo, os, bio, simians, and fratzia. Human would not have had a chance.