newbie questions and comments

[Sindai]

Originally posted by rylen:
I'm trying to figure out Mictlan. Other pretenders, I can get started and do well against the AI until at least mid-game. Mictlan falls apart early on. I'm not sure how to cope with combination of weak infantry and weak magic. The plentiful sacred troops seem nice though.

Weak magic? Mictlan has easy access to almost all of the really nasty aspects of blood magic since they have so many blood-something combination mages. It takes a while to get a blood economy up and running, but the process should speed up once you get a second castle up (since acolytes, who make the cheapest blood hunters, are the only mages you can build outside of your capital.)

The nature-blood mages give you easy access to crossbreeding, which means loads of cheap fodder. The fire-blood mages give you devils for elite troops. If you invest a little in magic-boosting items you can even start using the horror-sending spells with the astral-blood mages and summon ice devils for SCs with the blood-water mages.

[ July 25, 2004, 20:46: Message edited by: Sindai ]