Tips for finding blood slaves appreciated here

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i got 7-20+ blood slaves per turn with with each of my bloodhunting mages from abysia which had 8 in skill for bloodhunting.(warlocks 3 blood + dagger + armor + brazen skull + dousing rod).

That's the best way of collecting them i think

this was with territories with 3000-9000 in population.

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Originally posted by DLC:
i got 7-20+ blood slaves per turn with with each of my bloodhunting mages from abysia which had 8 in skill for bloodhunting.(warlocks 3 blood + dagger + armor + brazen skull + dousing rod).

That's the best way of collecting them i think

this was with territories with 3000-9000 in population.

Whoa, that's crazy... I mean to invest to much into one blood hunter... 2 WAs with rods should match that... Hell I had a WA with no dousing rod in an 11k province picking up 17slaves for a while, strangely when I stuck the rod on him it droped to less than 10, though by that time there were more hunters and more unrest

Getting back to scouts for a sec... I did some testing with Abysia Last night and found that they still do suck compared to WAs. Of course I had the luxury of time and being able to take research more slowly (didn't find a library or other cheap mage site in 15+ provinces ). The 5 scout province brought in fewer slaves and had worse unrest than the 1 WA+rod. Of course it should have been 7.5 scouts to 1 WA, but whatever From this simple test (both provinces were ~11k pop) it seems to me that if you have the extra gold you can easilly take every 3rd or 4th WA and set him up as a BH, using scouts only to ferry the slaves around if you don't want to build a lab. I'm still unconvinced that scouts are *better* (in some situations sure, but you'll have to adjust on the fly in your games anyway) even for the themes without cheap blood mages.

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i think the blood items are very cheaply made tho, they dont cost all that much.

the armor is the one thing that costs most of all of those(40 blood or 20 blood and nature) and all they need are 5 devils or blessed troops as bodyguards to pretty much survive anything(not to mention leech(25+ damage 100% accurancy + alot of bloodslaves since he's collecting....) to kill any assassin or aid any defense you might have set up.

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Originally posted by DLC:
i think the blood items are very cheaply made tho, they dont cost all that much.

the armor is the one thing that costs most of all of those(40 blood or 20 blood and nature) and all they need are 5 devils or blessed troops as bodyguards to pretty much survive anything(not to mention leech(25+ damage 100% accurancy + alot of bloodslaves since he's collecting....) to kill any assassin or aid any defense you might have set up.

Without actually looking up the costs I think you're looking at around 80 slaves and some assorted gems. 80 slaves is one soul contract, which is worth a ton more than a decked out blood hunter. I suppose if you've nothing better to do with those items you can use that commander to search, but I think he'd be more useful summoning the big bad boys, or leading your forces somewhere. Anyway, 2 WAs would probably equal his output in slaves, and there's not much need to protect your hunters with big baddies normally. Besides if your hunters are cheaper there's not as much imperative to protect them heavilly in the first place...