So go with original plan of one of GeeBizzle’s writers will become the Manager of Shipping.
Could I please get an explanation of battles again: what adds dice, costs, how to win.
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Commanders may choose to deploy. Dice is number of regiments and officers and allies exhausted (so unable to defend later this turn), where allies add a a number from 1 to 3, minus the strength of the defending region (tower, or towers if an empire). Can only deploy into the port region or a region adjacent to a company controlled region.
Standard odds - roll a 1 or 2 to succeed, 3 or 4 to fail, 5 or 6 to fail catastrophically.
After deploying, roll for every officer - on a 6 they died.
Success brings in the loot: 4 pounds per tower level, plus the one-off bonus for the first time a region is looted, distributed evenly among commander, officers, regiments, and allies (loot going to the latter two effectively being lost). Clears unrest, opens closed orders.
Examples:
One of the most important considerations is holding the region after taking it. Region loss now could end the game. Previously, not having enough defence for Madras was a risk that was punished by a rebellion. Then the foreign invasion was just a horrendous run of bad luck that couldn’t really be planned for, but the odds of that happening again are very low now.
How about the allies? They do have to be paid first before contributing, correct? They cost the number on the token? They get loot? Who does the paying for them?
Allies cost the amount of pounds on the token and contribute the strength on the token, and only ally for the 1 turn they are paid for. The commander has to pay for them, but needs to ask for the money to do so from the President (from the Presidency Treasury). They share loot just like a regiment would.
Okay, here’s my thoughts:
Madras is lost this turn. With a strength 3 tower (if I am reading the board correctly), I think we should worry about retaking it next turn.
We should focus on Bombay and Bengal with their strength 2 towers. If Military Affairs @RossM is amenable, I would recommend we place 4 officers in each of these regions, pulling one from Madras to do so.
I will take on 3 debt, for 15 pounds. Then the Presidents of Bengal and Bombay will receive 9 pounds each from the company coffers. 5 to be able to activate the allies, and 4 to attempt trade once the orders are open. I would recommend saving the allies for defense so we only spend our resources if necessary, but that is up to the Presidents and Commanders to sort out.
The Director of Trade will move one ship from S to W to enable all 3 order spots to trade on Bombay. E already has two ships to handle the 2 Bengal order spots. The Director will also attempt to open the port of Madras. 2 pounds will be allocated to the Director of Trade and 3 pounds to the President of Madras to attempt trade if the port becomes open, and otherwise can be saved for next turn to pay allies when we take back control.
I believe this would use 23 out of our 27 pounds, leaving 4.
Apologies to our Manager of Shipping for not sending any funds his way. Unless I am missing something, I do not see a need this turn.
Thoughts or concerns before I finalize this?
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You must distribute all funds and cannot keep any in reserve.
Oh, well then. With 4 left, plan for 1 more to DoT, 1 more to Madras, and 2 to Shipping.
Any concerns with this revised plan, everyone?
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Looks pretty good to me
Yup go for it.
Fine with me
I think that’s enough support to proceed.
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So, on to the Director of Trade, who is also @COMaestro
@COMaestro asked for a die roll:
Director of Trade will spend 3 pounds to roll 3 dice on a Special Envoy action to open up the Madras port space for trade.
3d6: 2 + 2 + 4 = 8
Success! Also move the bottommost ship in S to W (can’t read the names on my phone).
I don’t want to steer things, but it’s possible a player like @lalunaverde or @Whistle_Pig might want to lobby or bargain for a writer to be moved from Bengal presidency to Bombay presidency (as a successful trade and writer placement there after a successful deploy would net 2 pounds, and there would be 3 orders to fill compared to a likely 2 in Bengal). There are plenty of other considerations for Writer placement, so that isn’t a given, and whether or not to ask/wait/move on is ultimately up to @COMaestro
Not much I can offer for a potential £1 that my Writer could rake in.
Other than that, I can only implore that my two cadets @RossM could be sent to Bombay to beat up some ruffians the old fashion way! We must use our officers to open these markets by FORCE!!!
Just to be sure nothing is overlooked: it’s 2 pounds per writer, because of the Writer Privileges Law, otherwise I wouldn’t have made the above post.
While we’re at it, can @GeeBizzle confirm that the manager of shipping is doing nothing, or do you want to drain company funds by fitting an Extra ship?
Ah I missed the bottom right part of the image
Let’s just move on for now.