Understanding Mictlan

[NickW]

I like having the Onaquis hang back and just research or summon. The auto generate sacred bats things is awesome, especially if you park them in high dominion. Backed by a nice bless (say F9) those bats are nasty and they an ugly surprise to someone who wasn't expecting Mictlan to show up with flying sacreds.

I've won some big battles I shouldn't have in MP because I had a squad of those bats set to hold and attack archers. They got in the backfield, ate all the archers, and then ate all the commanders for routeriffic goodness

[Anaconda]

Have I misunderstood something, but I am curious why manual (and some other sources) suggests death scale for Mictlan? Should't that run you of stock in somepoint?

[Sombre]

I don't think death scale makes much difference for blood hunting unless you're in a really long/big game.

The reason you might well take it is to drop a really heavy bless on micts crazy sacreds.

[Karlem]

Just one point: playing Mictlan, turn 47 (not so long) a province near my capitol with death 3 from a magic site has gone from >6k to 3k people wihtout events, patrolling or overtaxing. This converts a suitable blood hunt province to an unusable one.

[Kristoffer O]

You are not expanding fast enough

If you take more province pop each turn than you lose by scales and blood hunt you are good. Compensate unlucky events with another players capital. That should do the trick

[Dedas]

Good tip!

[Xietor]

A couple of points, though i have never played Mictlan:

1. recently i have seen many players take dom 9 or 10 to start the game. Maybe just unlucky starts on my part, but in fallacy
most of my neighbors had awake pretenders and 9 dominion.

With 6 dominion, it was an early struggle to get more than 1 candle in my capital. I would have died for sure with 2 dominion.

2. I have fought against Jaguar Warriors, and I have to say with a triple bless, they are very hard to kill, especially when they are complimented by flying sacreds set to kill archers. But the negative scales mean you must be aggressive and attack constantly. If you are a player that likes to make treaties and build up, mictlan likely is not a race for you.

3. I like good scales, so i would not play Mictlan, but if i did, at a min. i would have f9 bless plus either a w9 or s9 bless. s9 is good because it gives them a 3rd life. w9 is good because they get quickness and close faster on their enemies. Extra attack is not really needed as a f9 blessed jag warrior typically kills whatever is in front of it quickly with its 3 attacks. But i have seen a triple 9 bless before, and early in the game that means death for most races facing them.

[Anaconda]

aaaaa.... what is exactly the triple bless in this context? Does it mean three full blesses (=f9,w9,s9) or what?

[Kristoffer O]

I would guess so.