>>6014165Some of the confusion is because of the changes in conditions adjust things subtly, sort of step by step. Wil try to make this clearer going forward.
But you do have the right of it - you're welcome to try and "arbitrarily enhance a unit's characteristics", it's just that those requests do filter through the available logistics and admin capacity. The admin enhancement action is a mirror of Bulk Discount, but they work in subtly different ways and accomplish subtly different things.
The thing about outcomes is that they're always constrained by the nature of the situation you are currently in. You might not keep track. You don't have to keep track. You can be very, very sure that Command is definitively keeping track. That entire excel sheets burst with little minutae, keeping score, adjusting numbers, with little notes - simply for the fun of it.
Comparatively, Bulk Discount works precisely like you've described. Meanwhile, Admin priviledges is more akin to checking the armory in Sheepwoe, seeing there's a few extra sets of additional plate, and then you issue that to a unit. Then their armor is enhanced for a deployment.
But neither Bulk Discount or the gradual access to larger and larger sections of Legion High's logistics enterprise really lets us do the impossible. There are a lot of underlying checks and balances in this system, and even though it might not seem like a lot of dice is being rolled - they do get used.
Think of any request you make as referencin the world state first, and then modifying the outcome by your stats, affiliations and skills. It's just that rather than consistently go
>Test +Affiliation or +Wealth or +ReputationAll that information is sort of shoved under a rug to let people get on with the actual business of fighting a war. Then they can try to trust the outcome is relevant.
Methodian's decision to get Saevus to check for scrap, for instance, resulted in the discovery of a few volatiles under a bridge. And Saevus has also shipped fine spears and surviving horses and some light armor to the quartermasters. Some wealth numbers were adjusted, or failed to go down!
But right now, you're marching west to engage with the the enemy around the Spanway. So you're a little too occupied to checke every item in the stores.
There will be a follow-up and a reduction in the fog of war regarding this, and many other things.
Though interestingly, this is where Admin Points (not actions) crop up again. They presuppose a competence and an access to all the information relevant. An Admin Point to follow-up on Saevus and get him to issue any shiny looted armor he found to one specific formation bypasses the usual, slower route of phase-deployment-camp-phase updates.
Managing an army is diffifcult. Sometimes you just don't quite know what's happening with the thing you asked someone to do. It's horrid, but it is partially part of the experience.
It'll make sense.