Mictalan Setup-Please Help The New Guy

[Glock30]

Any advice for setting up Mictalan pretender?
I have heard choosing fountain of blood, but are there any other hints:
-Best units to buy?
-Best army setups?
-Best blood spells to cast?
-Best Scale settings?
-Best magic settings?
-Best Dominion setting? etc.

Also, I noticed that on the French map, Mictalan is never given the temple that provides 3 blood slaves every turn. Strange, but a critical component to it's survival.

Any help is appreciated.

As another newbie who's only just starting messing around with Mictlan, I can't offer definitive advice.

But a couple of things I noticed.

Mictlan units aren't very demanding in resources, so you can probably safely put lots of scales in Sloth to get more points for your Pretender.

There are a lot of affordable Holy units, with some interesting extra abilities (can fly when blessed, or turn into Jaguars when blessed). Might be worth trying a Pretender with one or more high-level magic paths to exploit the bless effects you get from them. You might be able to build up an army that's mostly Holy, and massively boost it that way.

Mark

[PrinzMegaherz]

If you compare Mictlan Were Jaguars with Vanheim Shapeshifters, which one is better?

[Azhur]

Originally posted by Glock30:

-Best units to buy?

The sacred ones if you play with blessing tactic. That involves using SC, who has e.g 9N/9F. Other tactic is to buy only B2 priests who hunt blood and in the beginning summon Fiends.

-Best army setups?

6-8 Fiends should be capable to gain new indy provinces. Later move to devils and demons..

-Best blood spells to cast?

Mostly summons (fiends, devils, vampires, demons..), but also items (blood contract, black heart) and late blood enchaments.

-Best Scale settings?

Well in my opinion..

Order3: Need income for castle spamming, priests, labs and temples.

Sloth3: Why do you need resources?

Magic2/3: It's just nice to get asap new spells (and more magic resistance isn't bad either..)

Heat1/2: Some heat isn't that bad for mitclan.

Growth3: Bloodhunting kills people m'kay..?

Misfortune3: Even the worst catastrophe is in the end quite small..

-Best magic settings?

For SC you mean? Well it depends much of your pretender. If he fights, you can't really afford much into magic. Again if he researches and looks for magic sites variety is the word we're looking for. Of course you can also make a fighter/mage hybrid or a blood-hunter, but I wouldn't recommend making your prophet solely good in blood-hunting. They are capable of doing so much more..

-Best Dominion setting? etc.

High dominion if you use blessing-tactic, semi-high dominion when hunting for blood. Must remember that sacrificing and temples also help much...

[Glock30]

Thanks for the help here.
I have only one question that is making me nuts:
What is "SC"?

The new guy.

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Azhur,
Positive Magic scale LOWERS magic resistance, it doesn't increase it !