[Sombre]

Well not having experience of late game MP I'll concede the point. I personally still think trying to branch into blood without blood mages isn't a sound use of time and resources, if you're playing to win. I might do it myself however, because it's fun.

I don't take the fact that winning non-blood MP nations do it as a guarantee that it's effective either. Even the very best players will always do some things that aren't optimal on their path to winning. If you're a great player but you love,.. say,.. bog beasts, so in every game that you play (and you win a lot of these) you use them, does that mean bog beasts are effective units and a useful part of a winning strat?