Okey dokey.<br/><br/>First off, Muse, I don't think anyone wanted to strong arm you into any decisions.  I know I didn't.  It's just we weren't certain what you wanted and had no real way of finding out.  As such, we just had to take stabs at how to manage it based solely on our preferences, as we didn't know yours.  I'm sorry if it looked like we were in some way trying to edge you (and PiP) out of the game.  That was never the intent.<br/><br/>But all of that aside:<br/>Defense: 20<br/>Subordinate: 27<br/>Wealth:  23<br/>Power:  20<br/>Support: 23<br/>Law:  33<br/>Population:  20<br/><br/>Bonus: 1,2,2,6,1<br/><br/><strong>Defence</strong>So it seems to me we're in pretty much agreement that the 6,2,2 should go into Defence and we should use that 30 to buy a 40 pointer that is either damaged or under-maintained.  Let's shelf the decision of which for the moment, there's more important stuff and it seems like the broad strokes are agreed.<br/><br/><strong>Subordinate</strong>Seems to be less consensus here.  I would like to buy ships that are "thematically" military - by which I mean let resources be the civilian's problem.  Their taxes support us, not the other way round.  As such my preferred spend here would be a research ship and a medical transport.  Military R&D and a sickbay.<br/><br/><strong>Wealth</strong>I give few fucks here.  Chapel, artisan and security force seem the most thematically appropriate but anything could be justified.<br/><br/><strong>Power</strong>So first of all we need some Vipers, for HeavenAbove.  I don't see costs for Vipers so I'm going to cost them the same as Raptors for the moment - kckolbe if you could weigh in?<br/><br/>Veteran Mk V Vipers (cost = 5 for veteran, 5 for Mk V= 10)<br/><br/>I also think a squadron of Raptors and a Sentry wouldn't go amiss - give us some sort of early warning and disruption to make sure we can get our experienced Vipers into battle:<br/><br/>Green Raptors (cost = 1 for green, 2 for raptors = 3)<br/><br/>Trained Sentry (cost = 3 for trained, 2 for sentries = 5)<br/><br/>So that gives us a space force.  Lets then garrison the ship:<br/><br/>Trained Garrison (cost = 3 for trained, 1 for garrison = 4)<br/><br/>That comes to 22 - I've implicitly spent the two 1's here.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>