Postmortems

Postmortems are a collection of articles that analyze crises for what went right and wrong and how we could do better next time.

Rage Against the Steppes
After the Stallion March was heavily damaged by a nomad horde, the thread near-unitedly voted to fight on, with the maximum number of reinforcements, instead of paying tribute to the horde. This, in conjunction with the continued war, led shortly thereafter to replacing the Nobility in Humility value with the Honor of Elites value.

The quest master later revealed that he was surprised by the thread's choice, as he expected a vote for the tribute.

What Went Right

 * Nomad invasion was driven back, without loss of the march.
 * Lord's Loyalty value obtained, making subordinates less likely to break away.
 * New casus belli obtained, allowing offensive war against nomad hordes at any time

What Went Wrong

 * Unexpected change of values.
 * The in-thread discussion clearly shows that players did not realise that the tribute was actually a reliable solution. This could very probably have been clarified by asking the QM at the time.

Horseman's Plague
See Horseman's Plague for more details on the disease.

What Went Right

 * Hygiene - Obsessive preparation and players' choices prepped for this crisis starting with a very crucial decision long ago to blame disease on handling the dead. With the Iron Age Law megaproject, the emphasis was focused on community health, leading to constant construction of aqueducts and baths.
 * Myranyn Reform Decisions - Choosing to build storehouses and arsenal during the reform had given the Ymaryn sufficient temporary economic damage protection to survive the crisis largely intact.

What Went Wrong

 * Overurbanization - The same baths and aqueducts also made cities more attractive, coupled with forestry policies constantly eating away at EE spaces, meant that the Ymaryn became an inadvertent bioweapon program. This essentially sparked a feedback loop between the cities where there were enormous amounts of people to infect and the rural areas where the infection reservoir of horses and cows could exist fed into each other. Restarting the infection once it had faded from one or the other.

Lucky

 * Double Hero - The coincidental completion of the Academy and the decision to go with a mystic or an administrative hero had instead spawned an administrative and mystic hero.