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Meglobob said:
This is ALL explained under Mictian on page 93 of the manual.
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Those who can read ... . The thread is about the AI ... and did I say it isn't in the manual?
But that it is written in the manual, does it make it absolute, correct-without-a-doubt? Btw., the game "was there first", and the manual is wrong on details sometimes anyway ... .
The problems are the following:
- holy-1 priest seem only able to 'hold' the dominions strength level at 1. With only 1 priest allowed per temple, this means you'll need a 2nd temple in a 2nd province to get more dominion (spread). More likely, an enemy dominion will have killed you by that time.
- the LA Mictlan site gives only 1 bloodslave, while the old site (Dom2 and EA) gives 3 IIRC => blood hunting needed from turn 1
- the AI will most likely use the first priest it buys, but not necessarily the prophet. Looks like it ends up with a holy-1 priest 90% of the time, and therefore dom strength 1 until it has conquered another province and build a temple there. And maybe, just maybe a 2nd holy-1 priest sacrificing there (where does he get his blood slaves from, though?) will be enough to push its dom strength to 2+ ...
Ergo: Prophet and home province should spread dominion for Mictlan (or similar blood nations) as well. Thematically it's hardly understandable that it isn't that way anyway. For players it will make little difference, as they have little trouble to optimize their MM to make sure they have enough dom strength, at least in the beginning. But for the AI it will be the difference between life and death within the first 8 turns !!