Paths of Blood

[thejeff]

The interesting thing about LA Ulm is that it's the only blood nation that can rely on summoned blood hunters. Allowing it to bootstrap itself, once it starts getting blood.
It's recruitable blood mages aren't to expensive for hunting, but midgame, the Counts are cheap, no support blood hunters.
And with lots of freespawn chaff, you should be able to trash you're economy.

I've never actually tried this mind you.

[Sombre]

In Single Player, which is mostly what I play, I usually go for a little bit of blood if the nation has access to some of it, like MA Jotuns, LA Vaetti, Pangaea, Jomon broken etc.

In multiplayer I'd still be playing for fun rather than to go all out for the win, so I still might use blood as a secondary magic path. I just wish low level blood was a bit better to encourage some relatively minor use of it for nations that aren't primarily blood.

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thejeff said:
The interesting thing about LA Ulm is that it's the only blood nation that can rely on summoned blood hunters. Allowing it to bootstrap itself, once it starts getting blood.
It's recruitable blood mages aren't to expensive for hunting, but midgame, the Counts are cheap, no support blood hunters.
And with lots of freespawn chaff, you should be able to trash you're economy.

I've never actually tried this mind you.

Mictlan can blood hunt with its 2B Tlahuelpuchis, 25B to summon. They've got most of the advantages of Vampire Counts too (flight, stealth).