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The other problem with armageddon still remains - that it only kills small hp units.

Niefle, Most giants.. completely unaffected. IT needs to be like a straight 5% chance to kill the unit.

I'm putting a comment like this in my wish thread...

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A blood nation isn't scuppered by Armageddon. They just need to have their own astral mage who can wish for blood slaves. You get what, 200 per wish or so? Not a bad deal.

Whatever, the next Pantokrator's really going to have rush out the "Go forth and reproduce" edict in order to repopulate the world before the next age starts with all those armageddons.

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I think wishing for blood slaves is a bad deal since the ratio is what? 150 blood slaves for 100 astral gems. No.
If maybe 300 a wish then yes, but what the hell can you do with 150 blood slaves? Unless you're Hinnom or Lanka?
Wishing for a Seraph is much better.
A much better uys for those wish gems is to save for AN since the Armageddon is going to kill almost all the population anyway, and everyone will be forced to switch to gems only.

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250

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Let me understand this, if I may. You suffered ARMAGEDDON and several of your thugs got chest wounds? I need to know where one hires help this tough.

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:D It sounds more impressive than it really is.

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Armageddon does kill blood nations. It's 25% pop per one. Few of them and blood income is decreased by 90%. Also the damage to troops is mundane and very random, so protection helps. But yep, giants don't suffer. Well armored troops have very small mortality rate. High-hp non-armored units can get afflictions. Even well armored tartarians can get them.

And if you can wish for slaves every turn, you are not a blood nation. You are astral nation.

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Well, if you're wishing for blood slaves you're probably an astral nation, as a blood nation would generally just hunt for their sacrificial virgins. But a blood nation with an S9-capable mage might still reasonably decide the extra blood slaves more useful than anything else for the wish: they could almost afford a demon lord and a heliophagus for one wish, whereas wishing would get only one and (I think) you'd need to GoR it as well.

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Having been a Lanka with over 100 clams in MP, I can say I only once or perhaps twice wished for Blood Slaves. If you're into serious (possibly excessive) forging and summoning (Infernal Tempest/Crusade spamming, for example), there are times when you feel the need for the extra. They would have been handy if someone had raided or artilleried my blood hunters, too.

I guess if you're a Blood nation who can cast Wish, you probably have enough slaves coming in from hunting that you don't often want the extra - and of course Wish does all sorts of things you can't easily get otherwise.

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I've wished for blood slaves in MP quite a lot as Sauromatia. But yes, you'll probably need to have lots of clams or arcane nexus in order to use it as a strategy. It might be useful otherwise but not cost effective compared to blood hunting.

@Executor: The seraph is severely overrated as an SC and easy to counter. There are several things I'd rather have on my side in a battle. They do have several great uses though. Their great map move, magic diversity, S4 allowing them to teleport entire armies anywhere on the map. But in a big battle I'd usually much rather have a tartarian cyclops.