Courts of the Crane Clan

Path 4 is great work guys! I totally want to see it as an option and vote for it. It includes exactly what the Left Hand should do imo. Path 1 is the option I would make if we don't have the chance to form a path 4, but it not that Crane-like, let's admit it. I play Crane for honor mainly and switch as a second choice. Path 1 seems like an attempt to become Lion.

Thank you for the kind words Dave Laderoute has helpfully clarified that path 1 does not, in fact, lock us out of playing Honour decks, only ensures that those Honour decks will have an emphasis on fighting opposed battles. Which alleviates my rather serious worries about it from earlier. As the conversation on the AEG boards suggests that the costs of Option 4 are less apparent than I would like, I will probably be working on a new draft that makes those clearer. It may also be best to somewhat de-emphasise offensive military action against Kanpeki from the writeup, to more clearly distinguish it from path 1 (and to dispel any perception that it is "path 1 except better", since obviously that's not an acceptable option). Thoughts, everyone?

Agreed on that. Let's make sure that Option 4 looks like an acceptable one for us players and for AEG.

We're in the middle of two years of our most successful decks being scout military. I've had enough of it to last me a while.

Amen .