Rein economics
A reading: who was in the city when it held
Reinforcements are where mailbox memory lies. People remember who said they were in. The reports show who was actually on the tile, when they left, when they came back, and whether the march that came back was still the same march.
By hand you reconstruct that by opening every defense on that city and comparing the defending side row by row — including nested reins — across time. That is not a reasonable after-action. It is also one of the highest-value things in the library.
Focus
Usually a teammate’s defenses or hits on their city. Sometimes “only the fights where [name] showed up as a rein” as a custom cut.
A defense-sequence landing may already draw incoming, healing, and movement in and out. Use it, then ask the economic questions it does not automatically settle.
Why this used to be impossible by hand
A swap of depleted reins for fresh ones is a story that lives between two reports. So is “they came back missing a layer.” Skimming opening screenshots never gets you there. Neither does a scoreboard.
Questions (any wording)
Who was inside
- Every rein movement in and out of that city over the imported hits.
- Who was present on the holds that stood vs the ones that breached?
- Who kept showing up on successful defenses — as main or as a rein?
- Which reins were depleted and replaced more than once?
- When was the city thin — not “we felt thin,” who was actually missing?
Swaps and quality
- When did someone pull a dusty rein and send a fresh one?
- Which reins came back missing layers after they had already been depleted?
- Which reins were present and large but did little work — versus the ones that took the exchange?
Main vs the helpers
- How much of the killing and the points given up sat on the main vs the reins?
- Did a famous name on the tile change the outcome, or just the screenshot?
After the sequence
- Who should we have called earlier, from the movement you can see?
- Who left at the wrong time relative to the next incoming type?
What a good answer looks like
Named people, ordered hits, arrivals and departures as events in the gaps. Layer gaps on a returning march called out as observed, not as motive (“they didn’t care”). Killing and points given up labeled on main vs rein when you asked for that.
Common miss
Treating “they were in voice” as “they were on the report.” The analysis can see only the reports you read into Tactica. Reports that were never imported leave holes in the rein story. That is coverage, not a moral failing of the reins.
Arrivals, swaps, and missing layers live in the gaps between hits.
You cannot reconstruct rein economics from opening screenshots. Import the battlefield (including the main defender’s holds when you can), focus that city, then ask who entered, left, and came back thinner.
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