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[Alexandria]

GWG you may wanna be more specific and say 5 psionics, 5 engineers might get mixed up with the actual engineers.

[Rolepgeek]

Just remember; pinkish-orange is Dapperon. Quite a dapper color, if I do say so myself.

[a1s]

GWG you may wanna be more specific and say 5 psionics, 5 engineers might get mixed up with the actual engineers.

um... there are no "actual engineers" (or 5 engeneers, whichever part wasn't "engineering specialists") the resources are: armies, ships, supplies, intelligence, and morale.

[Alexandria]

Specialists then whatever lol, saying engineer could be confused.

[a1s]

Oh... You meant psionics and engineers being confused?

[GreatWyrmGold]

(( Uhm, GWG don't you mean donate 5 psionics to me? I've got the engineers . ))

So I do. Fixed.
EDIT: Wait, that should probably be "Psions"...Editing again!

[monk12]

Resources: Armies/Ships/Supply/Intelligence/Morale, which act as a budget to be allocated for a given quarter. They replenish to max every quarter, but don't stockpile (you can't build up 30 Intelligence to blow at once, or whatever)

Specialists: Military/Engineering/Labour/Psionic, which are actual dudes (or more likely groups of dudes) you use to build stuff. You get them based on what types of worlds you own (General worlds are one random specialist per turn) and you can stockpile them between turns (to get enough to build stuff.)

So Specialists make a superior "currency" since they don't have to be used immediately.

[Rolepgeek]

I don't think armies and ships do that.

[Alexandria]

Do what?

[Rolepgeek]

Get replenished every turn like that, yet don't stockpile. I was under the impression that you can produce them whenever you want, but any ships/armies past the first three from that world need to be supplied. Thus, three shipyards can maintain nine ships, and a shipyard and two forgeworlds can do the same. The difference is, shipyards can only maintain ships, but can produce 3 every turn, while forge worlds can supply either ships or armies, but cannot produce either.

[Leafsnail]

Nope, they're replaced every turn and need someone to supply them in order to actually be operable.  Interesting that the previous Emperor created a system that would leave him powerless if his Archons abandoned him.

[a1s]

relevant quote:

Do resources, like armies and ships, disappear at the end of the quarter? Or can you accumulate them over time?

No, Garrisons and Shipyards double both as production and maintenance, so even though a shipyard can produce 3 motherships in a turn it can't provide the maintenance for more than three.  Resources are completely replenished each quarter to the limit of the facilities that produce them, but you can't stockpile them.

In other words, it's fine to risk the entire fleet each time, it's just a question of where it gets sent to.  Morale is affected by how many ships or armies are lost in a defeat and how many survive after a victory, but that's about it.

Also, no it's not that interesting- you are forgetting an Emperor too was an Archon. It is not inconceivable that his personal demesne entirely consisted of  forgeworlds (that would mesh well with him being entirely unprepared for assassination from space)

[Weirdsound]

Its implied that the last emperor was from my House. If that is the case he did not have 5 forgeworlds.

[Rolepgeek]

So is it just that you need one Forgeworld for each Shipyard or Garrison then?

[Alexandria]

Pretty much.