Military Conqueror War Effort

[jonbrave]

Call me stupid, but.... When I pick Military Path The Conqueror, I get "War Effort" which states:

You can choose a Free Military tech

I have searched on the web, but I still don't understand what this is offering/how it works? It seems to stop for me to "pick" something, but (at least within the Military Path dialog) I don't seem able to click on anything. What am I supposed to do?

[Pamzazed]

it gives you free lore in secondary lore tree

[jonbrave]

Could you kindly explain exactly how? I tried clicking a lore in one of the other two trees, but it never seems to work. Like I asked, do I have to do something, does it just happen (when?), or what? Thank you.

[Silverion]

When I picked the path, I just went into the warfare lore category and picked a lore. Maybe it bugged out for you? Dunno

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

It's the same as once you can pick a new lore, but restricted to the middle tree.

[jonbrave]

I claim to have tried all the obvious clicking. More than once. I obviously don't get it, I end up having to just close the dialog. You guys want me to stay in the dialog where I have just picked the Conqueror path, right?? And click something else there, from one of the other two columns whose path I did not pick, right? Which I claim is exactly what I tried, I just couldn't click on anything else....

Unfortunately I can't just try it out. The next time I play and get to pick a path I will try again, I guess....


OOOHHHHHH Are you saying after picking the Conqueror Path as my Military thing, in that dialog where I pick the Military Path, what I actually get is a free pick over on the Lore window (within the Military middle area), where I do my Research? I was trying to pick something else on the Military Path dialog, fgs....

This is about as obvious (to me) as.... a very non-obvious thing :(

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

Yes it's a bit ambiguous, since they're both "military trees". Specifically you have a "military path" and a "lore". The tooltip should really say lore rather than "tech". Although it should be made obvious when the lore tab becomes highlighted and you can only choose military lores, unless were holding off on picking a lore then you probably wouldn't have noticed anything.

[jonbrave]

Absolutely, the tooltip saying "tech" totally threw me. I never noticed any tab getting highlighted. Sigh!

While we're on this topic now, isn't it a bit crap as one of the three Military Path rewards, compared to the others? I'm looking to get something I wouldn't normally get from Lore, I'll research those anyway. Plus it sounds like the devs couldn't think of a 9th military step to design so they just gave you a Lore pick!

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

Well it can be handy for getting military lores faster, which can fit into some rush and early expansion strategies, but it's usually not the main draw of Conq, which is bloodbath.

[CNC]

It's not crap at all. There are very powerful military lores in the 3rd rung of the military branch. For example, Raven and Stag get their special lores at that level. If you take 8 economic lores, as is common, you would need 11 in total to have your economy and military lores and be ready to fight. Conqueror reduces this requirement down to 10. The amount of lore you need to go from the 10th to the 11th is a lot, and might represent 5-10 minutes of game time. Not only that, there are military lores that are useful if you have some "extra" lore to spend, such as "feeling safe". That lore will give you a +3 happiness just for having a warchief and a lot more if you upgrade camps.