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[NAV]

How do we deal with the acid?

We could try large but thin and lightweight shields, designed to catch the acid then be thrown away.
Edit: Or a thick acid resistant cloak for the same purpose.

We could try some sort of caustic coating on armour or shields (Don't get on skin!) that partially neutralizes the acid. Lye maybe?

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Or magical amulets of resist acid. Remember we do have mages even if there aren't many.

[Tack]

We could just invoke a tactic to have longbows target those huge eyes.

[NAV]

Magic is boring.

[Nirur Torir]

Can we change our budget so we'll add at least 1 ballista and apprentice per turn to each front, without otherwise changing the troop ratios?
Can we add conditionals (Hire 1 mage if none exist on that front)?

We should probably spend a die re-arranging the fleet, since we have unused transports on front 1.

[Iituem]

Can we change our budget so we'll add at least 1 ballista and apprentice per turn to each front, without otherwise changing the troop ratios?
Can we add conditionals (Hire 1 mage if none exist on that front)?

We should probably spend a die re-arranging the fleet, since we have unused transports on front 1.

There's a bit of precedent for that in the code with the National Efforts.  I can give it a shot, but that's definitely a Budget action.

Not really seeing any coherent proposals yet here, by the by.

[Terenos]

I'll come up with something.

The first, improving our bronze, or investigating new metals such as iron for their use as weapons and armor. This will likely cost more ore for our troops, and infrastructure deployment, maybe even colonizing new areas. It likely just makes our troops better, overall.

The second proposal, is taking what we know of enchanting weapons, and applying the same principles to armor. Primarily to combat their new acid-spitting troops, this should add survivability to our forces. In addition, we might be able to further modify it to enable deployable wards to grant cover or defense for attack or defense purposes.

We could also try to develop some form of longbow. I'm not sure if we can, but it may be possible. Bonus there is it may outrange their spitters, giving us yet more chip damage before the brutal melee.

[Taricus]

Iron would likely reduce the ore costs for our troops; it does happen to be worse than bronze qualitatively, but we can outfit far more men in iron gear because it's a lot cheaper to produce.

As for bows, we'd probably need more wood and archers for composite bows to be truly effective. Capitalising on our ranged advantage is a good idea however.

[Nirur Torir]

I think a better spell for countering acid spitters would be a rebound shield, to fling them back at the enemy. That said, I don't want to invent a spell or get iron yet. We currently have 6 spell casts per battle spread over 2 fronts. Inventing a spell now would have little effect and give them time to counter it.

Improving our bronze quality could work, but I'd rather get more apprentices for the weapon buff. We could try designing armed slaves with no training, to throw extra weapons into the field.

I really want more training/education tech. I'd prefer a magic school since that should make magic research and enchanting easier, get us more mages for weapon buffs, and give us XP towards a general education system, but improving our overall education system this turn would be nice too. We need more training points so we can fill the lines with actual troops.

[Tack]

Hey! My proposal was coherent, if not a specific counter to spitters.

[Nirur Torir]

We have shortbows, not longbows.

[Tack]

My proposal was pikes.
Longbows was more of a spitball.

[Jilladilla]

So! Mage schools, better equipment, maybe a better equipped slave force (They're... Just meatshields at the moment right? I'm not saying give them good stuff, just a shoddy spear and a basic wooden shield, and absolutely minimal training (enough so they don't stab themselves)), or maybe something else?

(Reason I'm not suggesting spells is simple: We only have two apprentices on the field at the moment... As such the result of new spells would be limited...)

[Iituem]

Note that you can increase the number of apprentices you field (or any troop) by resetting the budget in the Strategy Phase.  You have 10% of 'free' budget change you can do per turn without spending a die.

[Nirur Torir]

My proposal for the turn is to design a mage guild, revise a bireme transport, build the magic school, and then shift mage and spearmen budget to apprentices (Until we have 1 each front) and bireme transports (or just biremes if the transports fails). I hate to let the corruption issue sink in, but I really want more magic weapon casts before they develop an even hardier bug, and think fixing our education system is our best starting path.

Magic School: Our magical knowledge is embryonic, as are our personnel able to teach magic are limited. By centralizing our magical recruit training, we can concentrate our best teachers and much more easily determine which training methods work. Once training is complete, they will be dispersed to the appropriate fronts.

Magic School:

Edit: Alternatively, design a dedicated transport and reserve a budget re-allocation die for it. If we can win on front 1 due to heavy reinforcements with just our current tech, it might be worth putting off the education. Things are going to get much harder once they take a city.

Edit 2: Or we could be cheeky, 2x revise the training camp cheaper and less corrupt, and build 3-4 training camps on the mainland. I expect that will get us more education xp, and +400 spearmen worth of training is fun.