>>5869501I'm sorry, but were we supposed to know about any of these things? Because having read back it seems most of the details you've given hadn't been supplied to us prior to the choice. Ponomaon was described as having ready access to Iron, but now it suddenly has no resources and we must go further south to secure them. Did the city just stop trading in Iron and dump anything that was left in the river the second we took over the province?
And looking at the map we've conquered a large swathe of land along the river, including several named cities, so I expected there to be more criminals than the thousand recruits our coin would get us. But only after the choice is made do we get the actual population statistic of our region and possible recruitment pool from prisoners. Should we just have known there'd be only 400 elligible prisoners in all our land for the write in?
We're now also told after the fact that proper consolidation of our territories is a poor choice because the King could be back any minute now and we should hurry up and capture more land before then. Are we supposed to guess that the King will soon return from the only mention of him being that he took volunteers to fight a war an undisclosed amount of time ago?
We don't have access to your QM notes, we can't make choices based on things you don't tell us.