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The Panther said:
I have found three hunters with SDRs as Mictlan to work quite well. You do not need to waste a hero on patrolling and the accompaning pop loss. Pop loss is not a big deal unless it drops below 5000, in which case your hunters are less efficient.
My current Mictlan strategy is to have 4 of the cheap priests in each province where there is 4500-8000 population. I set the tax rate at zero and let 3 priests with SDRs hunt virgins. More than 8000 pop, I would rather have the income. Less than that, the hunters are not as efficient. The fourth priest has a jade knife and sacrifices 4 slaves per month. The ideal population for hunting is exactly 5000.
It is uncommon to have the unrest rise with this, for the Mictlan hunters with the SDR are only 90% efficient. So when they miss finding virgins, the unrest dissapears due to the zero tax rate. Most of the time, I have zero unrest in all of my hunting provinces.
If I need more blood slaves, I just set up shop in a different province instead of putting another commander on hunting and yet another on patrolling.
As you said, you definitely want a cheap castle to protect your vulnerable hunting/sacrificing operations.
If you are hunting in a lower population province, like say below 4000 people, then 4 hunters may well work without patrolling since they find less slaves on average.
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Those 3 hunters net you about 15 slaves . But you spend 4 for dominion .
I personally meanwhile like Abysia much much more for bloodhunting .
The SDR is not so much needed and you have normally a better start than mictlan anyway .
So you have i think good chances if you want to get the ice devils to summon them before mictlan if you have put 3 water and 3 blood on your pretender
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Hopefully mictlan doesn't even think when he sees that to try to get arch devils
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Probably BoH Abysia is the overall better blood hunter than mictlan .
100 vs 80 gold for a blood 1 sacred hunter .
But mictlan has always the blood spend problem for dominion spread which makes them a micromanagement pain
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And the blood loss for dominionspread is imo significantly early-midgame . About 20% early then 10% midgame .