Some Questions

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4. It really depends on your earth gem income. If you have more gems than you know what to do with then it can be worth spamming. But Melancholia is generally better for reducing dominion and increasing sloth in enemy territory. According to the manual, the chance of desertion is based on failing two DRN rolls. One DRN must exceed morale and another DRN+9 must exceed DRN+MR.

The ideal setting for using it is if an enemy army is marching from the interior of his territory to the front line. Each turn he moves into a new province you turn it into sloth 3, and some of his men desert.