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Originally posted by Freyland:
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Agreed with the crossbreeding! I have used that extensively this game, with some neat effects, but it really eats away at that high BS need. Those Mictlan priests are the way to go for research, its just that you have to blow 80 gold every turn for just 3 research, and you can't recruit another commander from the province that turn. I have not had the research to devote to construction yet, emphasizing the Blood school for my Pretender. I have been experimenting with demons (that just sounds wrong) but again, the BS supply/demand.....
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Since Fiend of Darkness is available from the start, it makes some sense to hit Construction first to get a research booster and maybe some blood power boosters or whatever fun toys you like, while building up a Fiend force. Construction can also allow Soul Contracts, which can be very very potent to have. I got one by finding it with Luck-3, and it broke a stalemate and got me hundreds of blood slaves' worth of potent devils. Quite worth making an effort to forge, especially if you can also get a dwarven hammer first to cut the cost. Then once you can put some research items on priest-researchers, switch to learning blood while Fiends and Eagle Warriors do the conquering. Hopefully you will be able to summon nastier demons by the time the fiends are wearing thin. Often, fiends are tough enough when used in large enough numbers, that they don't take many losses anyway.

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