First pay and mutiny, then recruit

[317070]

I think we should indeed change the order of these actions. Then every troop gets one free turn. It will empower the raid tactic a little more, since you can have free troops as long as you kill them soon enough. And I think that one is now a little underpowered compared to the booming strategy.

[nymanjens]

I definitely want to try this, but I'm worried that it'll make the flow awkward. Maybe say that the recruit token also gives you coins?

[317070]

No, I think the flow is alright. It might be even better:

• Now, during recruit, you often need to think if and how much you recruit, because you need to pay them too. So right now, you do all those 3 things together (in practice) It can also be rather slow.
• With this change, there is less thinking involved. First pay everyone and do mutiny, then do the recruit tokens. All these steps will still resolve at the same time, in practice.

I think the awkwardness is just us having played a lot already, and is not intrinsic.

[nymanjens]

I mean more the writing it down in the rules that makes it hard. I think we'll have to get rid of the phases, but then it might just be a long list of stuff that happens every turn

[317070]

Yes, that's true. It will need some reworking. I would put the 'healing', 'recruiting' and 'revival' close together in the order, as they are similar.

Recruit token gives you coins makes things awkward again. What if I don't actually recruit, do I get the coins? Moving the resolution of the recruit token is an elegant way to make the units free the first turn, something which has been proposed earlier.

[nymanjens]

Note that counting the points must happen between mutiny and revival

[317070]

Yes, that is not in contradiction with what I said, right?

1. Resolve invest/trench tokens
2. Resolve move tokens
3. Get income
4. Pay units
5. Mutiny
6. Count points and move turn counter
7. Recruit, heal and revival

[nymanjens]

sounds about right