Blood Hunting Bonuses

[Sombre]

If it is that's the first I've heard of it. It seems more likely that those particular amazons have an intrinsic douse bonus. Those are possible to mod in after all, so they probably occur in the game for a handful of units (Blood fountain being one apparently).

[vfb]

According to Edi's DB, the Blood Fountain is the only one.

I know, it's because they are ladies! The villagers think oh, it's safe to show off our lovely virgins around her ... and then *surprise*! The WS chucks 'em all on the back of the lizard and off she goes.

Sorry enough silliness. More seriously, Karlem and Foodstamp, are you thinking you're seeing a bonus with the WS naked, or with a rod? It's pretty easy to set up a test.

[Foodstamp]

In my comparison both had rods. I played a game with LA Mictlan towards the end of the week, and played Sauromatia to test some of Baalz's strategy last night. Before I read Karlem's post I was already pretty annoyed that my amazons seemed to be better blood hunters.

Without exception, the blood hunters I had for Sauromatia were Nature 1/Blood 1 with dousing rods. For mictlan it was the standard 60 gold priest with dousing rods.

In the game with Sauromatia, one blood hunter would reel in a consistent catch of around 8ish. My Mictlan guys would have completely dry months, but could pull in as many as the low teens on other turns. This variance never happened one time in my Sauromatia game, which led me to think that maybe they were seeing the same variance, and then the amazon AP kicked in to save them from a dry catch.

Something else important to note is that I did not hunt in nearly as many provinces with the amazons and the game ended up being a lot shorter so they did not hunt as many times as my mictlan priests. That leaves plenty of room for chance, but it was noticeable enough that I think it would be worth testing.