Enlightenment of a SP Addict

[Caseus]

Boron said:
With Abysia you have to bloodhunt heavily . You can get then ice devils / arch devils easy and either hoard vampire lords or soul contracts .
The blood gives you good flexibility :
-The best overall weapon , the blood thorn .
-Arch/Ice devils .
-Best massproduceable troops , for Abysia's mages Devils and Fiends of Darkness are easy to produce in masses , especially a soul contract massproduction is attractive .
-Some of your warlocks can get Earth , then you can start hoarding earth bloodstones as well and plan on casting FotA / produce lots of dwarfen hammers .

Okay, now I just have to try Abysia. It'll give me a good excuse to try those bloodhunting scouts I've heard so much about.

What kind of growth scale do you use? I know Abysia isn't affected by growth/death scales, but their population does die if you take death, and bloodhunting doesn't help matters.

Blood thorn is the best overall weapon? *blinks* I thought that was the +1 blood weapon.

I'm really itching to try a VQ. A friend told me he loved Moloch as a SC for Abysia, but that was in Dom1. I think Moloch has changed since then.

I can tell Dominions is going to win out over work today. And I refuse to feel guilty about it.

[Soapyfrog]

Blood thorn is an outstanding weapon becuase it has life drain and it is single-handed, so can be used in conjunction with a shield.

It's low stats are not a huge hindrance for most proper SCs, which should have high strength anyway, and in case usually outwieghed by the benefit of being able to use a shield, like the lucky coin or shield of gleaming gold.

[Thufir]

Caseus said:

Okay, now I just have to try Abysia. It'll give me a good excuse to try those bloodhunting scouts I've heard so much about.

The scout bloodhunting was nerfed w/ an earlier patch (2.12, I believe). Here's a thread w/ some analysis: thread. And here's a more recent thread on the subject: thread

With Abysia, I usually do my bloodhunting mostly with Warlock Apprentices and a few Demonbreds (both using SDRs). Its true that Demonbreds are cheaper in the long run, but the break even point is something like 80 turns, so I think it's more accurate to think of WAs as cheaper.