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Well, vfb gets another victory before his exit. Congrats!

Hmm... I think Marignon can survive as well as most other human nations provided they don't heavily investment in goetic masters and inquisitors. Those are the only commanders that start out old I believe. You only need a few high inquisitors for dominion spread via blood sacrifice. Cutting back on geotic masters isn't so harmful to your blood income because of the diabolist. You also have access to royal navigators everywhere you set up shop. They are great mages in my opinion. The other bonus to using more royal navigators and diabolists is that you don't need a temple in every castle. Thanks to blood sacrifice you can use a few well placed temples to get a good spread of your dominion. You can even cut back on labs and put the money toward more castles and such by investing in chartmakers for research and communion slaves.

I survived thanks to a heavy investment in magisters and some cunning use of death magic. Granted, you can't really use death magic easily, but blood magic can easily fill in the gaps. Had I splurged on a massive number of magister arcanas instead I would probably be in the same position. Hmmm... I also had growth 3, which certianly helped a lot.

In my personal opinion the nation most effected by BoT has to be Abysia. Not only do they have a lot of old age fire mages, but they also have a smaller life span then humans. It appears that only two of the casters aren't dangerously close to old age or actually old, and those two are in no way decent battle mages. Let's not also forget their main battle tank unit, the warbred, who start at age 15 and are old at age 17.