Neifel giants suck?

[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by Zen:
Mictian is very cool and very frustrating.
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As a game progresses it gets harder and harder to put your sacred troops up to the front line of battle since they are capital only.

I have always wanted to be able to use Spine Devils and other low level blood summons effectively and this is what I'm trying to do with Mictlan. Trouble I'm finding is the expense of the 2 blood mages undermines their value as Spine Devil summoners.

The only thing I'm researching early is construction for blood raising magc items (allows me to summon with blood1 priests) and sanguine dousing rods. Hopefully, if I can get the start right, I'll be able to get enough Spine devils to form the nucleus of an anti-player army.

Cheers

Keir