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Maybe some kind of substitute? I do tend to play games before I sleep, as well, but usually I'll put them down (at least) 20-30 minutes before I intend to zonk out, and read for a while instead. Has helped, as near as I've been able to tell.

... though that does occasionally backfire spectacularly when I hit something both lengthy and particularly engaging and repeatedly fail the will saves to sleep instead of keep reading :V

Probably the effects.

As for lemuria, the consuls are basically discount wrath lords that take no research, i.e. they're sodding amazing, quite possibly one of the best national summons in the game for their price and accessibility. That said, they totally don't need a triple bless to do just about everything you want them to do -- I usually go major WN, minor earth (though the latter is more for the actual casters). It's enough to take almost any indie province, and most throne ones, too, if you bring in three or four at a time. And that's all you need until you can get some research and forging going and start kitting the critters out and bringing in chaff screens and proper caster backup.

You can actually sorta' get away with taking a dormant or imprisoned pretender, since your native D income is pretty high and you can empower one of your starting units to be able to start bringing in your summons. It slows you down fairly substantially but once your consuls start rolling out there's not much indie province wise that can stop you, and you can put out one (i.e. what amounts to a new expansion army) every two or three turns, even assuming you don't find more death sites.

That said, the consuls are discount wrath lords -- they don't have the D3 that makes the lords so thuggable, and their basic weapon is utter shite. They're just about your best army leader, as well as really good thugs throughout the game and zogging incredible ones when you can first get them, but that's all they are. You can build a strategy that utilizes them heavily but if you go all in on em yer going to be right buggered -- you still need to leverage your casters and freespawn, and for all lemuria doesn't need much scale wise dropping that luck or magic is overall a pretty bad idea.

I mean. They're technically not wrong! At least so far as sales or whatev' goes. The people are indeed not interested _{because the game is pants.}

... it does look pretty appealing. Any chance of/eta on it being in english?

Yeah, the more you invest the more you better get out of it. If you can leverage that 58 crossbows worth of gold to kill 59 or up, you're golden. If you can't, maybe find somewhere else to put the dosh.

... mind you, that usually doesn't happen if you just leave the PD by itself. You use major PD provinces to screen for mages or cav or whatev', basically treating them as a regenerating chaff blob. One that, do remember, costs no upkeep and consumes no supplies, and only really attritions if you lose the province or something... happens... to its population, if there's no fortress. Can be totally worth the investment if you have some way to force the enemy to attack the province they're in, or just if the PD sticks around long enough.

Always one. Zero exceptions, even a pop 0 ermor province can and should do that -- I don't think there's anything in this game you can better spend a single gold on. This is probably one of the easier things to miss, and while it is hilarious for the other side to start a conflict by capping half your empire with scouts, it's not something you want to be on the receiving end of :V

Everything depends on where the province is, what you expect to happen to it, and available resources. I do tend to prefer around 5-10 as a baseline, cash allowing, though. Enough to fend off bird attacks and the occasional small invasion event, that sort of thing. Think it's actually something like 6-11 'cause somewhere in there's the breakpoints for scout reports, but in that range.

... at least versus humans. Against AI I usually end up with one or more provinces with 100 PD, ahaha.

I've completely lost memory of what exactly the upgrades were mech wise, heh. I want to say vadels and savins are go-tos, though? At least as a baseline. Probably spelled one or both wrong, but *shrugs*

For fast mechs, most of my advice would just be to skim through the mech files and see what has plenty of weight reduction on their parts. That's usually a sign it's a higher end speedster mech.

... is it just me, or is that an even less reassuring statement than talking about exploding hazmat transports? It's the probably that does it, I think.

But yeah, drive safe, keep to whatever training and regs you've got, and make sure you're wearing a good pair of shoes and you'll be fine.