[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by PvK:

The pace at which you decide you've won a game is a bit staggering to me, though. We're essentially playing two different games from each other.

I'm having a tougher time finishing than I anticipated to be honest. Generally when I get this far ahead of the other races its all over very shortly after but with Mictlan your native troops are so weak this is not proving to be the case.

Caelum has counter attacked with lots of Spring Hawks and it has seesawed back and forth with me happy to hold my lines while finsihing Pythium. Pythium is gone (t.35) but Jotun got some of it and is looking my way now - nowhere else to go. This means I will get to use some serious blood. I'm up to hordes of Hell but I'm a couple of turns from Ice Devils as I need more water gems for empowering.

At this point I'm at least 10-15 turns away from victory (656dom score) and thats only if things go well. With the difficulty I'm finding making any headway with my native troops the demonic ones are going to be needed. Ice Devils work a treat vs Jotun and Caelum.

My next design is looking like.

Fountain of Blood, blood5, dom10
order3, prod1, growth3, heat1, misfortune3, magic3
Castle

This should provide a good start plus the research for getting blood up and running earlier. I'd like to get blood6 for the extra +1 str but i'm struggling to get a good points balence.

Cheers

Keir