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===Action Types=== | ===Action Types=== | ||
| − | Each stage has a unique set of actions available. Most actions fall into a number of common categories, although the variations are still considerable and there are exceptions. These | + | Each stage has a unique set of actions available. Most actions fall into a number of common categories, although the variations are still considerable and there are exceptions. These categorizations are an attempt to map Parabola, with all of the attending caveats. |
'''Progress Safely''' | '''Progress Safely''' | ||
| − | These options are the slowest, but the least-risky and usually the least-costly. They are | + | These options are the slowest, but the least-risky and usually the least-costly. They are characterized by having easy skill checks (150 or lower), and generating {{IL|Advance!}} even on failure. |
In the first two Stages, they have no cost above the action and produce {{IL|Advance!|1 x}}. In later stages, they cost a {{e}}2.50 item and produce {{IL|Advance!|2 x}} | In the first two Stages, they have no cost above the action and produce {{IL|Advance!|1 x}}. In later stages, they cost a {{e}}2.50 item and produce {{IL|Advance!|2 x}} | ||
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'''Skills Options''' | '''Skills Options''' | ||
| − | These options are | + | These options are characterized by testing against Advanced Skills instead of the Primary Skills. They are somewhat expensive, but ''do not'' generate {{IL|Ravages of Parabolan Warfare|Appearance=Ravages}} on failure. In general, the challenges have a difficulty of 5, generate {{IL|Advance!|2 x}} on success, and cost items worth {{e}}1.50 on both success and failure. |
'''Morale Options''' | '''Morale Options''' | ||
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If you are in the middle of a campaign when you [[convene a Board Meeting of the Great Hellbound Railway]], you may have an option to use your trains for war. This requires having built track to Balmoral, and potentially building a Spur Line depending on your choices there. This board action will automatically complete the Stage you are on (sets {{IL|Advance!}} to 24) and gives {{IL|Ravages of Parabolan Warfare|8 x}}. | If you are in the middle of a campaign when you [[convene a Board Meeting of the Great Hellbound Railway]], you may have an option to use your trains for war. This requires having built track to Balmoral, and potentially building a Spur Line depending on your choices there. This board action will automatically complete the Stage you are on (sets {{IL|Advance!}} to 24) and gives {{IL|Ravages of Parabolan Warfare|8 x}}. | ||
| − | Depending on the number of Board members you have, deploying a train can provide {{IL|Advance!}} far more efficiently than any other option, if you discount the {{IL|Ravages of Parabolan Warfare}}. [[Time, the Healer]] reduces the latter by 10 each week and allows you to send another train, so the following strategy can be used to | + | Depending on the number of Board members you have, deploying a train can provide {{IL|Advance!}} far more efficiently than any other option, if you discount the {{IL|Ravages of Parabolan Warfare}}. [[Time, the Healer]] reduces the latter by 10 each week and allows you to send another train, so the following strategy can be used to maximize the benefit: |
#Prosecute the war using non-train methods until you possess at least {{IL|Ravages of Parabolan Warfare|2 x}} (or exactly 2 if you are on the final stage) and exactly {{IL|Advance!|0 x}}. | #Prosecute the war using non-train methods until you possess at least {{IL|Ravages of Parabolan Warfare|2 x}} (or exactly 2 if you are on the final stage) and exactly {{IL|Advance!|0 x}}. | ||
