Paths of Blood

[Aleph]

Jazzepi - I don't know how new you are to blood, so don't take this the wrong way, but you are turning your taxes to 0 in provinces where you're hunting, right?

I find that roughly 6 points of blood magic (SDRs are effectively +1 for his purpose) is about as much as I ever want hunting a province unless I'm actively patrolling vs. unrest, and I almost never do that unless I'm growth 3. I like long games, though, and play single player, so I'm sure that many people crank more blood out of their provinces for more short term gains.

[Jazzepi]

Yup.

Jazzepi

[Valandil]

I've tried 50-60 levels hunting before, with maybe a thouasand patrolling slaves, to kill population in provinces the enemy is about to take, and to get some benefit from them.

[JaghataiKhan]

I hunt blood without fiddling with taxes. Any problem with that?

[Shovah32]

Well either you build up huge amounts of unrest(bad) or you patrol to get rid of unrest which kills your population(bad).

[Meglobob]

If your only a minor blood nation or dabbling in it in order to extend your magic, I often blood hunt at 100% taxes, only adjusting the tax rate next turn to get rid of unrest, then bloodhunting again.

You maximise revenue this way, well still getting a steady supply of bloodslaves. The population remains very stable as well. Often I will have a lab in the province so I can research the turn I am not bloodhunting.