Blood huting: Am I doing something wrong?

[liga]

if 1d100 less than (10 + 40xblood) and 1d5000 less than population and 1d400 less than unrest

effect is d6(oe)+blood

[Kristoffer O.]

... you can find this and other informations taken form taht forum on

http://arrakis.unimo.it/~ligabue/dom2/docs/guida.rtf

good luck
Liga

[BugRoger]

Oh, funny. I havent' seen that formula before. I can confirm it though. When I first started using blood magic I set up a test game to test various strategies.

I usually put my blood hunters in a province with a population arround 5000. Set taxes to 0 and use 1 "Call of the Winds" for every 5 blood hunters. Unrest stays at 0 and I would say that I get at least 5 slaves for each blood hunter on average. I only use mages with at least blood 1 and give them a SDR. Looking at the formula now it makes sense that this strategy is highly effective. I also lose hardly any population and don't have to change the blood hunting province all the time.

I also tried blood hunting by recruiting hordes of cheap commanders without blood magic. It kind of worked as well but it's very hard to keep the unrest under control. Upkeep and logistics are a problem as well. So if I have access to blood mages I wouldn't use the scouts for hunting.

Hope that helps.

[Cheezeninja]

Im playing a huge mictlan game right now (on the Faerun map) where i have about 20 provinces set up for bloodhunt/sacrifice, i figure if im going to build a temple for sacrificing, and a lab for pooling blood slaves, i might as well put in a watchtower as well. I pull around 300 blood slaves per turn (i have 2 priests with SDR's in every blood hunting province, and 1 sacrificing) but im also slowly killing off my population. As long as i keep expanding i'll be fine, the blood must flow, right?

I have growth 2 and most provinces have a king with 50 slaves patrolling.

Its on the Faerun map, which is a pretty hefty download if you dont have high speed internet, but i can send you the save file if you want, so you can get the idea of what a semi-massive blood empire feels like.

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by liga:
http://arrakis.unimo.it/~ligabue/dom2/docs/guida.rtf

good luck
Liga [/QB]

Nice job with your guide Liga.

If you like, you may add few other formulas to it which are currently missing - such as chance of geting battle afliction, formula for turmoil in province, weather formula. These can be obtained by searching this forum.

Just my two cents.

Regards,
Stormbinder

[Vynd]

THanks for the offer Cheezeninja, but I think Liga's info is all I really needed. It's clear to me now that while I was a bit unlucky with my lvl 1 Blood hunter, using a lvl2 hunter will make a big difference.

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Vynd:
THanks for the offer Cheezeninja, but I think Liga's info is all I really needed. It's clear to me now that while I was a bit unlucky with my lvl 1 Blood hunter, using a lvl2 hunter will make a big difference.

Actually lvl 1 bloodmage with rod is the same as lvl 2 bloodmages, and almsot the same as lvl2 bloodmage with rod, as it is clear from this formula.

So as long as you have lv1 bloodmages armed with rods, you are fine.

[Cohen]

It wasn't +2 for using Sanguine Rod?