Mictlan , how to play it effectively

[Jim_Parker]

Huzurdaddi said:The real power of Mictlain is that you have the slaves for patrolling. If you are not partolling with Mictlain you are not getting the most blood / time that you can and that inefficient for THE blood nation.

Not sure I agree with that. Patrolling is very costly in population so it's really self defeating. You can counter it with growth but you can also counter having a few 0% tax 'feeder provinces' with order - and not have to suffer terrible unrest (therefore you have no need of patrolling).

If you take the patrol/growth route you'll have a larger standing army...if slaves can be called an 'army'. If you use a few feeder provinces at 0% tax you can run a proper empire elsewhere.

It probably works out fairly similar. The patrol/growth tactic is bound to end up taxing your economy quite badly. Slaves are cheap but not in the numbers you'd need to patrol every province. On the plus side, you should be able to get an awful lot of bloodslaves.

If you have a few feeder provinces and order, the tax revenue you lose is going to be more than made up for elsewhere. It's basically substituting growth for order. This empire will have more cash and less blood slaves...but how many blood slaves do you really need?