Guide to EA Mictlan and bloodhunting

Saxon · #1 April 27th, 2007, 07:57 AM

Great guide, thank you for pulling this together.

So, if I read it right, for provinces with populations of less than 3K, you leave them alone and let them produce cash.

You mention searching for blood sites and the use in reducing ritual cost. Are there any/many that bring in a steady supply of slaves? Obviously, I can not plan around that, but I was curious.

Baalz · #2 April 27th, 2007, 12:31 PM

Well, the real factor that starts coming in for sub 3k provinces is the value of your mage's time rather than upkeep. You'll average a little over 16 blood slaves per turn for a 5k province with 3 Mictlan Priests with rods. You'll get half that for a 2.5k province, and it's costing you 3 mages that could be researching (if nothing else). Really, the cash generated by sub 3k provinces is negligible anyway, its a factor of if you have something better for your mages to do (you almost always can use more research).

You will be getting much more blood slaves from a single blood hunting province than you can conceivably hope to get from all the magic site income. There are very few magic sites which produce blood slaves, and none produce very much. They can produce quite a savings on the spending though.

Velusion · #3 April 27th, 2007, 01:16 PM

Excellent Guide! I'll be going back to this once I really have to tackle any blood nation...

Meglobob · #4 April 27th, 2007, 04:09 PM

Baalz, any tips on blood hunting when burden of time is up?

Baalz · #5 April 27th, 2007, 04:25 PM

Well, now that you mention it...

Use a priest king to forge a thistle mace and armor of twisted thorns, stick them on a lizard shaman (fairly common), use him to forge a moonvine bracelet. Now forge a second armor of twisted thorns, place it with the other two nature boosters to a priest king and cast Gift of Health. Follow that up with Astral Corruption and place in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour. Mmmmm, screws over hard pretty much everybody but you....