Choice of Rebels-Uprising Help/Hints

[Norilinde]

@Ramidel

Just because I feel like bragging:

This is the state of your leadership and the rebellion:

Kuria Alya Seriatou

Born a noble of House de Serin

Self-taught Theurge

Prophet of the common Angelic voice

Epithets

Called by your followers:

Open-Handed

Traits

Charisma: You are reasonably persuasive and charming.

Combat: You’re unlikely to win a fight or lead others to victory.

Intellect: You’re widely read on many topics, with an excellent memory and strong reasoning skills.

You are popularly seen to be:

Ruthless: 17% Compassionate: 83%

Skeptical: 23% Devout: 77%

Homelander: 24% Cosmopolitan: 76%

Followers

Your rebellion has 542 surviving followers, including 364 adults and 178 children.

Of these, 67 are literate.

Since the rebellion began, 94 of your followers have died.

Morale is exceptionally strong.

Resources

Wealth: 4932

Arms: 200

Mules: 18

Blood: 4

Anarchy: 22

HELOTS:

You are on the way to becoming a helot folk hero.

YEOMANRY:

You are on the way to becoming a folk hero to the yeomanry.

ARISTOCRATS:

Most aristocrats abhor your rebellion, but a handful are growing cautiously sympathetic.

PRIESTS:

Many Shayardene priests secretly believe the Angels are on your side.

MERCHANTS:

While most merchants think your rebellion is bad for business, a few of them see opportunities in working with you.

@Ramidel

Honestly, I look at the kids as an investment. And by investment, I mean teaching them literacy when I only have a handful of adult bandits free.

Of course, I can say that, because my theurgy and combat runs never have any trouble collecting the necessary “freedom taxes” to keep my people fed. So feeding the kids isn’t a problem.

@Havenstone: The fact that you don’t have dictatorial control over your followers is absolutely a feature. I mean, obviously it requires some trickery and games to keep everyone on a subsistence diet when I can clearly afford better, but the individual bandits didn’t sign up to be fed crumbs just because it fits my strategy to let them get sick until the deer come.

@Ramidel I find it interesting that you have both a large total number of followers and a large number of them are literate. My playthroughs tend to result in one or the other but not both. My guess would be that it is because you let them keep getting sick which reduces the amount of food you need to acquire. On the other hand, my MC’s band had a lot more assets in the form of mules which could be sold for a lot of wealth. My MC had no interest whatsoever in winning over the Priests or the nobles.

@idonotlikeusernames

You meanie, that’s one thing my mc can never bring himself to do. Besides you don’t need to if you get enough damned mules and keep hitting the tithe barns.

Same here. My followers are on full rations starting week 2 and sometimes even week 1.

The contrast with the numbers I manage is interesting to me. These numbers were after evading the enemy during the summer while playing a covert wisard.

This is the state of your leadership and the rebellion:

Captain Alya de Serin
Born a noble of the Shayard Rim
Self-taught Wisard

Epithets
Called by your followers:
Open-Handed
Sometimes known by the alias Lucia.

Traits
Charisma: You are reasonably persuasive and charming.
Combat: You’re unlikely to win a fight or lead others to victory.
Intellect: You’re widely read on many topics, with an excellent memory and strong reasoning skills.

You are popularly seen to be:

Ruthless: 37% Compassionate: 63%
Skeptical: 77% Devout: 23%
Homelander: 39% Cosmopolitan: 61%
Followers
Your rebellion has 336 surviving followers, including 158 adults and 178 children.
Of these, 80 are literate.
Since the rebellion began, 129 of your followers have died.
Morale among the survivors is exceptionally strong.

Resources
Wealth: 264
Arms: 226
Mules: 50
Anarchy: 35

@idonotlikeusernames

How did you manage to keep blood at 4? I always lose at least 2 to get rid of that damned first Plektos without dying as a “mage”?

@idonotlikeusernames In chapter 3, visiting the cave instead of the strangers reduces the number of blood phials used in Chapter 4 by 1. If you want to save Breden from Radmar, confront Breden then delay judgment. Then while facing the final 3 Plektoi, only cut your hand against the first one then fight back with all of your will, use a phial against the second, and bees will account for the third. I think if you train Yebben in wisardry he can help bring down the cavern ceiling although it kills him but I cannot remember if that is the second or third Plektos. So that might be how to avoid using any blood phials at all but I like Yebben so not an option for me. In any case, using only 1 blood phial is quite doable, @Ramidel will have to explain how to use none.