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i am not very skilled at pretender designing too until now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

but some other tips :
first thing i always research is blood at least until lvl 3
then you can decide but blood 6 ( arch devils ) and blood 7 ( curse of blood ) are nice goals which i try to reach very quick too .

if you put 3 blood + 4 death on your pretender you can summon with him vampire counts (VC's)without empowering him.
the VC's are blood 3 / death 3 so if you research then construction 4 ( skull staff +1 death ) you can forge these for 1-2 of your VC's and they can summon additional VC's then and your pretender can do more important tasks .

you can use the VC's with their vampire hordes then from mid-endgame to defend your territory with positive dominion since they are immortal .

you should castle everything and the VC's have 3 strategic move so you can spread them at important points that every province you own can be reached by 1 VC squad http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

at the first turns you should do the following :
convert each turn your 5 fire gems to money .
for the first 30-40 turns at least you should try to build each turn 1 of the capitol only mages in your capitol .
with the alchemized fire gems you can build troops + a leader the first turns without problems http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

try to start blood hunting until turn 10 .
i myself do like this :
i take my poorest province with 5-10k population .
then i get in 2 bloodmages drop taxes to 0 and start hunting http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
normally the unrest stays low at 0-20 only very rarely it increases to unrest values of 50 or so . if this happens i pause one turn and let them forge something cheap e.g. SDR's .
but in general i can hunt 9 of 10 turns so and if i take a bit growth my population never decreases .
because if you patrol for each unrest point decreased 10 population are killed .
since if you bloodhunt heavy in a province you will decrease 50 or more unrest each turn each turn you kill 500+ population .

what's really nice with abysia is that the demonbred are F2B2 and fly . so if you start blood hunting early you can summon quite quick your first devil army and give it to a demonbread and fully use the strat move 3 .

in mid-lategame you should get some blood5+ F2 mages cause then infernal forces is just great http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

the other magic isn't so important for abysia all in all but you should search with augury in all your provinces for fire sites .
first if you are short in money you can alchemize them and second you have good fire mages http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
if you are lucky with independents and get earthmages you should search this way after earthsites too.

hope this helps a bit http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

edit : question on the experts http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
during battles if a storm staff is used or storm as battle enchantment is there any way (counterspells/forged items ?) to counter this that your devils still can fly ?
or is the only "counter" to this to summon storm demons in addition to devils and use them against caelum / man / other strong air nations ?

[ July 03, 2004, 21:38: Message edited by: Boron ]