Re: Enemy dominion too high for me?
 

Of course, you are right. My bad: I keep forgetting that for sacrifice blood level/boosters are irrelevant, it's only holiness that counts! So I should have said, a level #2 priest + jade knife(=+2): I shall verify that he is 4 virgins light after next turn :)

While we are on the subject of virgins: I know hunting increases unrest. But what it ought to do, additionally, is reduce (pop) growth --- surely a reduction of eligible young maidens would cause that down the line?

Re: Enemy dominion too high for me?
 

It does. It's not massive, but certainly noticeable. (Don't recall if I ever checked out the exact formula) From previous experience I seem to remember that Growth 3 (Or possibly 2?) is enough to balance out the population loss from bloodhunting, but with less growth your population drops. (Of course, if you patrol to get rid of unrest rather than just dropping taxes population loss is a lot bigger.)

Re: Enemy dominion too high for me?
 

Thanks guys, for weighing in on this. Calahan's writeup looks exhaustive, and ideally should probably be included somewhere like the Strategy Index or the Wiki. Until it winds up somewhere like that, I think I'll need to bookmark that link. :)

Re: Enemy dominion too high for me?
 

Drops by 2 per bloodslave found, rounds up to the nearest 10. I calculated how large a province would have to be to remain stable (on average) a while back, with 2-3 b2 bloodhunters, tax100 and patrolling and it was something like 13k+ with G3 scales.