Blood Magic: The Truth behind those Fruiters that Practice it

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Spacepain:
Okay, today, I am here to address a very important issue people. Blood Magic. Blood Magic, is seemingly the most daunting and confusing school of magic to even dream about using... to even the slightest success. After the fact that everything demands those pesky blood slaves, theres the wee confusing thing about GETTING blood slaves that really has me flabbergausted. The amout of micromanagement invovlved in keeping a healthy number of blood slaves around is nauesating.

Is there any thing that eases up this process of moving commanders around provinces harvest blood slaves? To be quite frank, considering the amount of time that is needed micro-ing all of those little blood mages, we should start a fund for research of an ethanol equivalent to blood.

If you have the extra cash, building a lab in the province where you are doing the harvesting will help a lot - slaves will be available on the turn you find them, and you can pool them from the "lab" screen.

I tend to hunt in a very few select provinces. A high population helps a lot, and if you want to keep unrest at a reasonable level, you should lower taxes considerably - basically, to 0 once you have several efficient hunters. Yes, high population also means high income, so you're losing a lot of gold this way; hopefully the slaves will make up for it.

If you go the Scout way for your hunting, then you can choose to have only 1-2 hunters per province, and can get by with maybe 80% taxes; but then, you'll have to micromanage your harvest, most likely. Also, scouts don't benefit from Sanguine Dousing Rods like blood mages do, so your hunting will be slower and more erratic.