Blood Slave/magic Questions

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
What I'm wondering is about how many searchers and patrollers do you like to put in a given province per thousand population? I'm never quite sure just how much the deaths from patrolling are offset by the growth scale.

One fully loaded, slightly experienced Tribal King(65 slaves) can reliably and completely control unrest for two SDR hunters. A newbie(50) TK sometimes loses control in spikes.

With growth-2, I can sustain a relatively stable population with one patrolling Tribal King and two SDR-equipped Mictlan Priests, in a province of > 15K pop, since the province grows at about 600 people per turn, and the patrol kills are maybe in the 100-300 range. With populations of less than 15K, I tend to go with just one hunter for patrolled hunting, and for provinces of < 8K, I forget about the patrollers and just do 0-tax hunts with 2 Priests per province. Any province with > 4K population gets hunted. The blood must flow.