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Edi said:
The reason it happens to Mictlan is that Mictlan only gets dominion increase by sacrificing blood slaves at a temple. If it does not sacrifice, its dominion drops. If it can't expand (which happens due to the strong indies) it will die a dominion death.
The AI is flat out lousy at playing Mictlan, it requires too much special stuff that you need a human to do correctly.
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That makes sense now. Much more so than my unknowing theory about only one nation using a suicidal SC strategy.
I only tried Mictlan once, very early in my game experience. I didn't like them and quit after a few turns and haven't been back. That is why I knew so little about them and was oblivious to this possibility.
One additional observation I have made since I've been always including Mictlin as an opponent. In the setup screen the human is always in slot 1, and I then put Mictlin in slot #2. The other opponent slots are usually "random opponent" or if I do select a nation as an opponent this is done in a rather haphazard, whimsical matter. I've noticed that Mictlin always seems to be adjacent to me. Does the game place nations in the sequence that they are on the setup screen? (I usually play medium with 4 opponents or large with 6 opponents.)