Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24304663-20140111214839/@comment-24108228-20140209234746

I agree that you cant be an overlord, but not for the same reasons as abid. As it happens, rouge rebels stop at the "Get Mithril" stage, launching repeated steel based attacks. If they had mithril before you started overlording, then the first few attacks have mithril, until they run out, at which point it is back to steel. Just use a set of bluesteel armour with a bluesteel sword/spear, along with a crossbow/Yewbeam bow with steel arrows. Then your invunerable, until you forget to eat.

No, the real problem lies in the fact there is only one of you. Considering there will be around 4 islands with people living on that you need to keep under your power, that means that at least one will be a pain and divert your attention. So now you have one village under your power, because your too busy sorting out rebellions from that one village to actually keep your other villages supervised. The others will forget you exist, and your empire doesn't stretch out too far.

The problem with multiple helpers is that you need to get bluesteel for them too, and it is expensive when made in bulk due to a lack of a certain ingredient. Also, they will either join the rebellion (face it, your a jerk) or leave too soon, as there is only so much fun to be had from claiming pies someone else forced tribes to make on the threat of spawnkilling and bombs.

Final note for slavers, anyone who gets their enslaved tribes to make anything except pies is either asking for trouble ("get me sets of mithril tools" will not end well when they team on you), or not taking advantage of their opportunity ("work da quarrys!" isn't the most productive use of a slave).