Abysya Help Request.

[Blitz]

Screw production. Hell you can even take a sloth scale. Think about going blood of humans, since they have MUCH cheaper bloodhunters. Really all I ever used the abyssan infantry for were for expanding and to guard my mages.

Couple of things to remember... your best combat mage is also your priest. 2-3 Anathemant Dragons in every army is a good idea. Research up alteration for combustion. It's precision 100, so you don't have to sweat the misfires. Eye of aiming on these guys isn't a bad idea either, for when they start with the falling fires.

If you go with a SC pretender (and thus have earth 3), then consider going the dwarven hammer/lifelong protection/soul contract route. Don't take blood on your pretender. It's a snap to forge a few items with your first blood 3 mage and get those items forged. This way you don't even have to research blood magic until the midgame.

One of the nice things about Abyssa is that they have mages in Fire/Astral/Blood... and your pretender will probably have Air/Water/Earth and maybe even Death and Nature. You can get a really nice gem income going by searching with just pretender/dragon/warlock.

When I play Abyssa it's blood of humans with sloth 3/Order 3. BOH also gives you the newt who is a nice researcher... although I usually use the blood hunters for both jobs. Keep recruiting warlocks when you can until you get one of every elemental random. That way your pretender can kick out some boost items and you can get those Demon Knights and Storm Demons going.

Consider the research path Alteration 5, Construction 4. The first for SC skills and combustion, the latter for dwarven hammer, Soul Contracts, Lifelong Protections, SC gear, and sanguine rods. After that I usually go for searching spells.

Good luck.