Well, I guess I use an unorthodox strategy. No wonder people talk about running out of money with Mictlan.
I don't use labs. What I do is place a few priests in a province, and I manually go around and select the ones that are hunting and give the gems to the ones who are sacrificing. And before you say it, this method is not nearly as inefficient a you'd think. I very rarely get stuck with turns where I end up having to make the sacrificer bloodhunt because his pals came up short. I won't complain about this too much, but I'm sure as heck not going to play like this any more. Okay, I won't jump the gun. For all I know, you can still click "go to commander" and it will at least take you to the province. If I'm lucky, it will even select all the commanders. That's just as good.
Come to think of it...how could anyone start bloodhunting from the beginning of the game if it required labs AND temples in every province! My unorthodox method seems pretty intuitive to me. No wonder everyone scoffed at me when I said Mictlan was a strong dominion spreading nation (though I'm finding I like Vanheim better anyway).
Still, thanks for the tip Graeme for making it easier once a lab is up.
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