Enevhar Aldarion
Oh Wise One
I can see how to design a city for catering only. And I think it could work very well up until the Woodelves chapter. But at that point, Orcs becomes added to the catering list for both tournament and spire. And at the same time, you have to start making mana. If anybody knows how to design a Woodelves level city which can produce enough Orcs to 100% cater tournament & spire while also producing enough mana and goods then please let me know how.
If a person refuses to build armories for making orcs, the only other alternatives require just sitting in chapter 9 until one of two things happen. Either the player gets majorly lucky in an upcoming event and wins a bunch of an orc-producing event buildings, or they keep making every single orc nest that shows up in crafting, until they think they have enough to move forward with the chapter. Both choices, of course, can be started on at the beginning of chapter 8, when those buildings will give orcs. So it is possible to have enough of one or the other, or both, by early chapter 9 to not need the armories.