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Yeah, wasn't expecting demons with power++ in darkness to appear.

Fun game? Yes. Devoting wayyyy too much time to trying to end it? Definitely.

Can't wait to try a new nation/map!

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Hey if it's taking you that long to kill him, consider powering up a Blood economy of your own on the side - very cost effective once it's started. Then you can get your own Fiends of Darkness and whatnots, really fun stuff. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Though Earth Elementals and Umbrals are pretty nice already. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif Did you try Magma Babies on him at all? Many demons are actually fire vulnerable, and those Babies have insane damage output.

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Wow,yeah. I had stopped doing magma babies before the utterdark because Hinnom was employing a lot of fire and tramplers...but now that it's mostly dead and demons I should whip out a few more fire factory earth readers. Only downside I can see is that the Hinnom pretender is a phoenix http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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Agreed. I've found the population eating feature crippling, even with plus 3 growth scale.

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I echo your sentiment.

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How?

You can sit the pop eater researchers and ritual casters in a small single province and let them eat it to 0, and for armies on the move it tends to be negligible since you move quickly through your own territory (especially considering that you can Teleport and are designed for SC tactics).

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I think the pop eating is more of just a pain to manage, than a real crippling problem. You have to continually manage where your big guys go, and make sure they don't stay in one place too long, unless you intend to deplete it.

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As I mention above, the real impact of the population eating which you can't manage away is that your blood hunters trash your blood hunting provinces much faster than other nations. This is more than compensated by Hinnom's other advantages, but it's not totally negligible.

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"crippling" might be a bit strong, but it is a very serious drawback for Hinnom. Sure, in happy-happy theory world, aka sp, you can move the rephaim to isolated desolate spots. In a real game though, things aren't so easy, if there is any sort of struggle. You need your armies where you need your armies. I had a significant force bottled up due to a siege. Population there used to be alright...

now, if only I had read the post about moving them somewhere else before they were besieged, I'm sure everything would have been a-ok.

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how bout making them starve if they are at a 0 pop place?