[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by apoger:

Abysia
-the Demonbred can use Blood Boil at reaserch-1 for a no-slave armor negating attack.
-Demonbred have exatly the right skill to cast Bind Devil.
-the Warlocks are tailor made to cast Hordes form hell.
-Hunting is made easy by the cheap Warlock Apprentice.

And I get better results by ignoring blood with Abysia. I'll still use it if the game goes on along time but otherwise not.

The blood boil point is good but bind devil is not a good spell.

Mictlan
-Has blood-1 mages for easy/cheap hunting
-Starts with bind fiend and bind spine devil pre-researched
-Can upgrade national mages for easy access to many big blood summons

And is the worst race in the game.

Pangaea
-Cross Breeding is cool.
-Awaken Dark Vines now very cheap for what you get.

Pandemonaics cost 320gps and they are your blood mage - makes searching for blood slaves a killer in an incredibly gold greedy race. Again I pass on blood when using Pangaea.

Jotunheim
-Skratti have the correct skills to cast Bind Frost Fiend, and can be empowered to cast Bind Ice Devil.
-Illwinter is custom made for some serious Jotuheim domination.

Skratti are expensive so that your blood searching is very pricey. I still use blood with Jotun but thats because I like it so much thematically - I'm not sure its worth the trouble in most games.

Marignon [Diabolical Faith]
-Starts with Bind Harlequin, which isn't the greatest, but it's not bad.
-Has cheap blood-1 mage for easy/cheap hunting
-Like Abysia can use Blood Boil for battle.
-Like Abysia has the right skills for Bind Devil.

I haven't tried this race and till now have taken your word on it - you described it as weak didn't you?

Vanheim
-Is a very minor blood nation... but I guess the Van could empower to be able to cast Bind Storm Demon.

Alex you are doing your utmost not to get the point it would seem - Vanheim has to pay for a blood pick on its Van Jarls and in general gets nothing for it. Blood is the biggest problem with the Van.

I'm actually happy to see blood magic reduced to the level it's at.

As the greatest critic of blood I'm not suprised you are happy you got what you campaigned long and hard for. Your response to the dom2 demo was that blood was still overpowered!? For me its a case of goodbye to alot of cool features.

Sort of ironic that they finally made blood searching not a micro-management nightmare and instead of this making blood all the joy I had hoped for I find myself wondering wether its worth bothering at all now.

Cheers

Keir