Time for Promotion - Why only 1 new member?

Time for Promotion - Why only 1 new member?

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Posted by: Gilosean.3805

Gilosean.3805

I’m playing through the Blood Legion story, finishing up Time for a Promotion. The last part of the instance doesn’t make any sense. When the warband is down to 2 members and a new recruit, why does Rytlock only give us the option of taking 1 Charr on?

For those who don’t play Blood Legion, the setup is:

The head of our warband was a blustering idiot. We got promoted to his job. Immediately after promising a better leader, we are informed that we can only choose 1 of the 2 needed replacements to bring our warband up to minimum strength. Also, we need to make that choice now. No chance to interview or get feedback from existing members.

Warbands are supposed to be 5-15 strong. The PC warband is:

  • PC
  • Sparring partner
  • Lady from supply run

That’s 2 short of the minimum 5. Taking only 1 of Rytlock’s buddies keeps us understrength. If both Charr need a new warband, we should take both.

We could pick which one to ask first. But it doesn’t seem logical to not ask both NPCs to join us.

Unless I’m missing something major here, this seems like an unnecessary and foolish choice. Warbands are supposed to be military units and families – this is handled badly from both perspectives. It makes me feel like an idiot and bad leader.

Warband as military:
1) Good officers don’t deliberately keep their unit weak. This ‘choice’ is a complete about face from the scene’s emphasis on good leadership.

2) The appropriate reaction to a suggestion from the general who just promoted you is ‘Sir yes sir!’. Lieutenants don’t get the final word on who is in their units.

Warband as family substitute:
3) Adding a new family member is tricky. The right way is to go talk to both options and see how they’d work with existing warband members. But we don’t get the option to go do interviews, or even ask for feedback.

TL;DR
This choice doesn’t work with either paradigm for a warband. It’s bad from both the military and familial perspective.

It’s also incredibly tone deaf to force a choice between boneheaded alternatives immediately after we promise to not be a bonehead.

Time for Promotion - Why only 1 new member?

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Posted by: Dustfinger.9510

Dustfinger.9510

Good point on the tactical perspective but as far as the familial perspective, the military isn’t a democracy. Warbands are thrown together initially, so no one is conferred with and if Rytlock’s actions with Logan are any indicator, no one need be conferred with later on. The benefit of a militarilily structured society is that it’s less likely to get bogged down with debates and differing input.