Painful Experiences from Battle Turn Limits

[Executor]

I don't find elephants very useful, VERY low MR thus easy to kill, and rout easily, but that can be solved if you put some slow high-morale troops with them, but anyway I don't use them they're unpredictable.
By the way I'm testing Mictlan a little, and never used blood bless so far, what does death curse do exactly!?

[Endoperez]

Blood Bless is more or less useless. Sometimes when a B9 blessed unit is killed, the killer is Cursed, as per the level 1 thaumaturgy spell.

[Executor]

Oh, well that's even worst then air bless, guess I'ma have to change my pretender design now, thanks Endoperez!

[sum1lost]

Executor said:
I don't find elephants very useful, VERY low MR thus easy to kill, and rout easily, but that can be solved if you put some slow high-morale troops with them, but anyway I don't use them they're unpredictable.
By the way I'm testing Mictlan a little, and never used blood bless so far, what does death curse do exactly!?

I'm finding blood/fire bless to be very useful, since they have some excellent blood spells, their sacreds don't have incredible strength, and benefit from the blood blessing, and spamming Rain of Jaguars late game with a B9 pretender never gets old.

[JimMorrison]

Rain of Toads? Rain of Jaguars sounds horrifying.

"OMG Larry, it's raining 300lb jungle cats again!"

O.O

They should get Rain of Anacondas. Machaka could get Rain of Spiders, ewwwwww..... And of course, Lanka could have Rain of Sumatran Rat Monkeys.

[Executor]

Fire 9 is a mast have bless for Mictlan, that is obvious, but I wouldn't go as far as B9, I thought death curse was something a little more powerful but as Endroperez told me it just curses you if you kill the sacred unit, so that lousy.
But the real question is do you take F9 W9 and blood4 with bad scales, or do you take F9 and a little blood or water and take stronger dominion and income scales???
I hate making pretenders, I'm starting a new game with Mictlan and I've made 3 pretenders and just can't choose one, and I know either way I'm gonna regret taking the one I'll take!!!
Decisions decisions...

[Sombre]

I believe death curse also has a slight chance of a weak horror mark.

[chrispedersen]

F9 W9 N6-9
or

F9 S9 W9

[Executor]

True, F9 W9 S9 is a very good bless but not really for everyone just for experienced players.
With that strategy you shouldn't have too much dominion but you have to be careful not to be dominion killed.
And I don't think I'd ever go with nature either 6 or 9,
regeneration is nice but 3-4 HP per turn well... I think that's only for giants, however berserk now that something, I'd rather go with N9 then S9 for bless but in the long run S9 is more useful ( wish and arcain nexus ) , but then again it all depends on your overall strategy.

[Tifone]

Hey, I am playing Mictlan too! I am using a Smoking Mirror with F9W4S4D3B4, and it is working for me both for blesses and magic diversity - I maybe regret not having taken another point in astral, as now I don't have a very easy access to Astral Corruption

Rain of Jaguars - I was in love with it in early game ^^ quite easy to cast, it's exactly like pride of lions, costs the same amount of N gems, but jaguars, while having 1hitpoint less, are SACRED! So they strongly benefit from the blesses I took for the Jaguar Warriors.
And it's damn thematic. I mean, enemies trying to rout after an heavy impact with my Jaguar Warriors, being surrounded and devoured by fierce jaguars from the deep jungle... wowowz ^^