some balance questions

[Calanor]

Originally posted by Jasper:
One idea is to have blood slave stem from hidden sites representing "blood lines" that you have to find, with one blood mage able to enter each site each month to get it's payoff. Another is to just let one mage blood hunt in each province.

One blood hunting mage per province sounds like a good solution, IMO.

3rd, one of the primary threats of a Super Combatant Pretender is an early rush, where the Pretender sits on your only castle. If you allowed games with more extensive starting positions there would be both more defense against this, and less damage done.

Starting positions are defined in the map file. Or rather, the provinces where you can't start is defined there. This should allow mappers to make sure that no side start too close to another one (assuming that this was what you meant?).