[Valerius]

Hmm, well it may certainly be the case that under these settings TNN wins the battle for best glamour nation but looking at it in a larger sense are Van/Hel competitive under these settings? Because that's really what I'm aiming for - that every nation has a chance.

And I think the key question for those two is whether blood is a viable option. When I played Van the blood summon prices were *really* high (ex. 50 slaves for ritual of the five gates). But I was still able to get good mileage out of blood magic on the battlefield, in particular bloodletting (which I removed from the next game as being too much for these settings).

Here I've only bumped up ritual of the five gates and a few national summons in cost so considering there's little opportunity cost in lost research to blood hunting like crazy I think it should be quite possible to mass blood troop summons. And of course you can reverse communion thugs just like Niefel.

If there were something I'd change it would probably be the cost increase to Vanjarls since I was kind of on the fence about that anyway.