how would you play Mictlan

One point that may have been overlooked or assumed;

Mass Produce Blood Contracts on your mobile Summoning Army.

Those things pay for themselves in more ways than one.

[apoger]

So far I have been running into a wall with Mictlan. I can make them work with much the same tactics as other nations just by being efficient, however not by using anything uniquely "Mictlan".

The troops are disaterously lightweight.
The pre-researched blood summons are just not efficient enough (loss of mage-time).
The dominion via sacrifice system is a pain in the rear.

If anyone can get Mictlan working in it's own way... let us know.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by apoger:
The dominion via sacrifice system is a pain in the rear.

The Shft-M thing to put the action on repeater might help. Its kindof a bummer that he has to have the slaves in his inventory. If he could make use of the Lab if its in the same province then that would help alot.

[apoger]

>The Shft-M thing to put the action on repeater might help.

It repeats normally, so this is not an issue.

>Its kindof a bummer that he has to have the slaves in his inventory.

That's the issue. Just to keep dominion in check I need to ferry slaves to the sacrificers all the time. The gem distribution system isn't the highpoint of the Dom2 interface, and having to access it often is frustrating.

If the province contains a lab, the slaves should come from the pool automatically.

It's small interface issues like this that are really grinding me down.

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by apoger:
>The Shft-M thing to put the action on repeater might help.

It repeats normally, so this is not an issue.

>Its kindof a bummer that he has to have the slaves in his inventory.

That's the issue. Just to keep dominion in check I need to ferry slaves to the sacrificers all the time. The gem distribution system isn't the highpoint of the Dom2 interface, and having to access it often is frustrating.

If the province contains a lab, the slaves should come from the pool automatically.

It's small interface issues like this that are really grinding me down.

If the province contains a lab the slaves do come from the pool automatically. You just have to equip the priest with the number of slaves you want him to sacrifice from then on, after that he keeps reequipping and sacrificing that number of slaves every turn. This way you can choose the number of slaves you wish to sacrifice. Once started, under the condition you have sufficent amounts of slaves, you need not bother with the priest again until you for some reason want him to perform another order.

[ November 30, 2003, 22:24: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

[Graeme Dice]

What effect does each sacrificed slave have on Dominion spreading?

[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
What effect does each sacrificed slave have on Dominion spreading?

Each sacrificed slave counts as one non-Mictlan temple (or prophet, or home province). This means that the effectiveness of sacrifice depends on the God's dominion strength (including boosts from number of temples).

Obviously the ability to make each of your temples count as five (for HPotS with Jade Knife, not counting prophets or national heroes) could be quite spectacular, however, the cost is pretty steep. Maybe Mictlan priests should get a blood hunting bonus similar to Fountain of Blood (not as powerful of course).

Does anyone know why Mictlan is allowed to take the Ceremonial Faith theme (its only effect is to raise the effectiveness of preaching, which Mictlan can't do at all)? Also, how does Restless Worshipers work with Mictlan - does it spread your dominion for free (could be very valuable)?

Of course, as scales currently stand, the Last thing an already weak nation needs is a turmoil scale...