BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I did not buy Knights haphazardly, I picked 12 for specific reasons. This would greatly lessen the effectiveness of Parcels since the amount of Knights needed to populate starts to weigh on the gain of the Parcels themselves.

I’d argue it makes parcels more effective, as it makes it easier to support larger armies of knights because you get cheaper food.

Knights are required to populate Parcels, and the more Parcels you have the greater amount of Knights needed to populate more. Parcels aren’t rendered ineffective, but they aren’t made more effective- I’d argue the opposite, though not by much.

Say you, for whatever reason, want 15 knights. Under the current rules, the difference between someone with 4 parcels and someone with 2 parcels is that the guy with 4 gets two more wealth per turn. With this change, the 4 guy needs to spend 3 wealth per turn getting food, and the 2 guy needs to spend 5 wealth per turn getting food. So you’re saving 2 extra wealth per round by having lots of parcels.

Currently, the optimal strategy seems to be “get a few baronies/earldoms and then just get a ton of knights and parcels because that’s cheaper”. But like, that isn’t really all that interesting. This adds another variable people have to account for so that you have to be more exact with your purchases.

We’re looking at it differently: You see saving Wealth, I see merely losing less Wealth. And this would have a negative impact on the veritable Wealth-generating engine I am sat upon.