[licker]

I wouldn't dismiss O3, but the advantage of T3 (besides 240 design points...) is that you get more events early, more gem diversity early when you need it most.

Ranger floods are all fine and well in a small map perhaps, but in larger maps ranger floods are just so much chaff to be brushed aside if you want to use them once counters are available, and at that point, your money doesn't help you as much because you can't buy your way out of the problem.

Well your money still goes far enough to recruit your mages at all your castles, and your castles were built when you hit luck events as well.

There is certainly a balance to be struck depending on your play style, but 240 design points is huge. At least I assume you aren't paying for your order scale by taking misfortune, because I think that would be a really bad idea for LA Ulm.