Alexander's Ever-Expanding Tome of Knowledge, pt 2

[Sandman]

I don't think that would work. Using Jarls to research is hopeless, you'll never get anywhere.

[HoneyBadger]

Nah, Jarls are great researchers. They've got like 5-7 points of researching ability each, and they can forge skulls pretty easily. On top of that, they can arm-wrestle a dragon, so what's not to like? If you really don't care for them though, you can always use Gygjas-it's just kind of wasteful.

[Shovah32]

Lets pay 500 gold for 6rp a turn! yay us...

[thejeff]

Yeah, build Jarls as thugs and use the other mages for research.
If you're not sending a mage out to fight, why is Gygja wasteful?

[Meglobob]

Well...Honeybadgers method is extreme but it is very sound in principle. I am basically following a similar strategy in a MP at the mo. Basically why recruit inferior units? Just recruit purely sacred troops and have a massive bless, then the giants of Niefelheim can walk where they wish and none can stand before them, hopefully!

[HoneyBadger]

That's what I'm going with here, that you not waste gold on mages you can pretty much *only* use for research. Why not use Jarls to research for a while, and then have more Jarls around by the end of the game, since you can only recruit 1 mage-type a turn from your home-province anyway?

Why use that single slot for a mage that isn't also a Jarl? Yeah it's great to recruit other mages at other provinces for research-go ahead. But in your home province, you've got two choices, a Jarl or something *Other* than a Jarl.

[Sombre]

Why buy 'inferior' troops? Maybe because they're cheaper and make better researchers.