assasination question / blood in the very long run question

[Kel]

Originally posted by Boron:
but if you set your assasins orders on retreat will he then assasinate an enemy commander when you give him the assasination command but if he is discovered by pd or patrolling troops retreat in another province ?
or does he die ?

As I recall it, he will retreat and, assumming he is successful, he will die if in the attempt, or retreat intoa province if its a PD discovery.

finally what means a stealthrating higher than 0 ?

I don't recall the numbers but the higher your stealth rating, the harder it is to be detected.

the problem is : you should take a growthscale with bloodmagic .

I have seen a lot of people say this. Maybe I don't know what I am doing but I usually take death scale when I play a blood nation (when I play them for blood, that is).

This is a question of strategy and probably varies according to what nation you play and what your starting strategy is.

Personally, when I play Aby or BF Ulm, I play fairly aggressively and with a early/mid-game rush strategy (alt-3, blood-5/6, const-4/6 is my target). My plan is to expand enough that the people dying from death scale are compensated for by the population I conquer.

and you are almost forced to have a pd in addition to a castle in every blood hunting province. if you only have a castle a spell like call of the winds can stop the blood hunting for 2-3 turns at worst .

This depends on a lot of factors, like how spread out your blood hunters are and what spells you are actually worried about. PD alone can take care of Call of the winds but stealth nations might be more of a concern. Whether or not you need to protect every blood hunter depends a lot on who you are facing and how cheap your blood hunters are.

so in general if you aren't clearly winning in midgame your bloodincome will reach a peak and then slowly decline because of the before mentioned reasons.

Either your income/population will decline or your slave income will decline if you aren't expanding, you don't actually have to be winning the entire game.

while gemincome will skyrocket due to clam/fiever fetish hording .

That's why I, personally, use blood as an early/mid game strategy. It's also why i don't bother with growth scale. When it gets into the late game, someone who has developed a late game strategy will have the advantage anyway. Better to concentrate on my strengths than try to play their game.

- Kel

[ July 07, 2004, 19:59: Message edited by: Kel ]