You're probably right, Shneeky. Anyway, I have gotten about all I need from this thread.

Emperor Tippy, I see that I was misreading exactly how the Weirdstone worked, so that's a good thing. I can just have the army accompanied by a construct with one built right into it. Do I need to preserve line of effect? And, do the players know that they are under its effects immediately?


Oh, and about the Ice assassin assembly line, I figured you just make your first one and mindrape it into your thrall. After that you order it to spend all possible time making additional ones and mindraping them (indoctrinating them to follow you), too, and giving them this order. It represents relatively little effort on your part to establish your own infinitely expanding economy. Get a divine caster and you've got all of the food and water you need for when you decide you need an actual population. As long as there aren't any gods that are the patron of not doing this, you should be fine.