DAMMIT! I accidentally closed my reply just after finishing it...
^I personally think this should be our last option, if we are going to attack a city.
I'd think it would be more effective the sooner implemented. Start it "now", we can have an exponentially larger force than if we started it right before the attack.
Coughing or not coughing depends on if we want it to be more stealthy or not. I highly doubt our enemies are not smart enough to realize that something is amiss when vast amounts of the populace are coughing. Personally, I think we should only make it make them cough during the last stages of the infection, when they are preparing to explode and etcetera.
They don't ever explode automatically, they just gain the ability to.
I think that biological weapon of that scale is way, way to cruel
How come?
don't use WMD, or else you'll get a guaranteed answer in form of another WMD
The Empire of Tranquility already wants to destroy us.
This has the potential to be the weapon that terrifies the Empire into submission. Entire fiefs converted, food tainted with spores, no mortal can be trusted, et cetera.
Death can kill it.
Is this referring to the dormant period? Sadly, I can't prove what death magic would to to its equivalents IRL, but I'm sure there's ways to protect a spore from death magic.
Get rid of the ability to insert itself. Get rid of the ability to come active from dormancy, for the sleepers.
Mind explaining what you mean by these?
I don't the like the Sleepers for flavor reasons. I'd rather us not be the illuminati;
Well, the way I see it, this is our spin on that elder chaos god's "Substitute people with things under your control" idea. I see Donut as taking successful ideas and making them better, or at least making them work for him.
fungus spores that have an incubation period on the other hand, can spread pretty quickly, and instantly destroy a lot of armies.
How is this different from what the Fungus Sleepers are, aside from subtlety and the ability to control the victims granted by the Sleepers?
Besides, I doubt they'd have so few side effects while a fungus is attacking their organs and replacing them with itself. Their bodies going to be fighting, REALLY hard, which is what causes symptoms.
The "itself" is replacing the organs and replicating their functions as part of the replacement.
The immune system bit might be a problem...but there's always ways around that, from duplicating the host's biochemistry to hindering the immune system.