[Norfleet]

I rather like Mictlan in MP: The key to remember is that the blood must flow: Get those blood sacrificing going early and fast, or you'll have no dominion and die easily. Mictlan has a highly versatile collection of magics: Its national mages have basically every kind of magic covered, except Death and Air.....both of which are covered by its national heroes, Mictlipoclti and the Eagle Warrior guy, respectively. You can also easily cover them on your pretender.

The drawbacks being that the troops, while relatively cheap, suck hard. Unless you're playing a strong bless effect, you may as well forget about them. Graeme argues that the troops aren't so awful, but the ones that don't suck cost more resources than you can reasonably afford as Mictlan.

I like to take the cheap 0-pt watchtower, build them everywhere as anti-raid protection so my blood hunters aren't killed by random irritances, and then pump out the cheap priests and hunt ze blood everywhere. Between a wash of sacrifices and a horde of devils, vampires, ice devils, arch devils, and what-have-you, Mictlan is a great nation: Don't let the cruddiness of the trops fool you. Just think about it as money saved by not building them.