Well, I do not like hydra armour, puts the SC too low in prto and I lilke to have innate prto of at least 20.
and about MR, I had just 2 SCs out of 7 with MR18, and one was because you feebleminded it
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Couldn't forge spirit helmet and horror helmet uses death gems so.. or them or Tartarians
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But overall I agree with you.
I had BF antimagic and BF luck so your plan was going to have some problems
. Also some flyers to bypass walls and attack the mages and my own comunion to do some nasty things so it would have been quite balanced and I think jaguars would prove its value over skellies and wolves. But who knows
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I had about 100 slaves turn and the centerpiece of my plan that I have not said until now is.... a 40% BLOOD REDUCTION SITE!
. I had found that site since early game and that allowed me to put big amounts of blood rituals for low cost