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Old August 10th, 2004, 05:19 PM
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Default Re: Eye of the Lord\'s best uses ...

With your starting Eye + warriors you can patrol your home territory and jack taxes up quite a bit - I've had it at ~150% with no unrest build-up yielding 240+ gold a turn. However, Growth 3 won't prevent you from losing population, so the province's income will drop slowly over time. The Eye patrolling alone can allow a tax rate of 120-130%, but he'll have a bad day once in a while and you'll get some unrest.

I'd generally favor Order 3 just for the reduction in micromanagement, on the other hand bundling some archers with a patrolling Eye provides a little boost to the otherwise paper-thin Machaka PD. I've generally only applied this tactic to provinces with enough gold income to make it worthwhile, as the up-front & upkeep costs of the Eye + archers aren't worth it in low gold provinces.

If only the Eye was Holy-3...
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