Mictlan , how to play it effectively

[Huzurdaddi]

With 3 hunters per province, zero tax rate, and no patrolling, you can just about balance the pop loss from hunting with 2 growth.

The real power of Mictlain is that you have the slaves for patrolling. If you are not partolling with Mictlain you are not getting the most blood / time that you can and that inefficient for THE blood nation.

And getting back to the original post for a second. Mictlain has basically, 2 options:

1) Make a bless pretender and expand using your decent sacred troops.
2) Make an SC pretender and expand using your SC

The advantage to #1 is that you do not have to research alteration-3 which is nice. The disadvantage to #1 is that you have to make troops which cost money which could have been spent on more mages for blood hunting and using that blood.

The downside to #2 is that you *need* to take Blood-3 ( or ) and Water-3 on your pretender since you just *have* to have the ice devils. This may be difficult to take on an SC pretender and not break the bank.