The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 36 Discussion

I personally liked the story, but the core content is too repetitive. It is one of those op character centered stories where it does little to feed off its possitives such as comedy and easily resolving irreversible situations (It attempts to do so but the potential losses are never high enough, zero tension, and obvious realization the MC will easily resolve it results poorly). This results in a story with no real tensions and real story climaxes.

Now I get I'm just really listing negatives here... but I think it's still worth a shot. I'm just a bit stuck up on the negatives as I liked the story making me hung up on all these caveats that would've made it better.

The core loop consists of

1. 1. Downtime / Recruitment

1. 1. Military corps fighting (MC commands the army)

35% of the novel feels like it is filled with military strategy / fights, however, it is a very simple formula. The MC easily resolves everything, being one step ahead, there is never any real reversals and again tension in the plot. It is never complex either but a simple development/execution. This results in most of the core of the novel being really just a filler. These fighting scenes could've been much better written, a prime example being how Pick me Up, and Surving the Game as a Barbarian handles the exact same formula, but extremely well on both sides (though Pick Me Up fell off later on)

This results in the downtime filler being the core plot. The buildup that leads up these huge engagements being the attraction. I personally enjoyed this. But I can't bump it up from a 3 due to world/plot holes. Everything also revolves around the military. Every school is a training grounds to train potential future officers.

This novel is also 100% a harem. Every girl falls in love with the MC easily, and every FL love potential has major cliches to force the plot relationship. The MC is also a bit stuck up.