Some ideas: raiding, seiging, spell AI and more..

[Boron]

Peter Ebbesen said:

For the design points saved that you can use to boost your scales, pretender chassis, or other magic skills as I suggested? Perhaps you happened to miss that rather vital part of the empowering strategy?

I didn't say take blood on your pretender .
Abysia just needs 2 +1 blood items on a demonbred and he can summon the Arch devils then .

Mictlan needs construction 4 anyways for SDR so you can continue to Con 6 then they can summon both Arch devils and Ice devils .


You are right though i missed your point that if you empower e.g. a demonbred to blood 4 you save time .
You have to invest iirc 45+60 blood instead of 20+20 for 2 +1 items but you save several turns .
If you want to rush to the Ice devils you are forced to take at least water 3 on your pretender though cause the only +1 items are water bracelet and robe of the sea but the latter requires W3 to forge .

So good ideas : if you take W3 on your pretender but no blood you have to pay 50+30+45 blood to empower him to get the ice devils .
So in both strats "only" about 80-100 slaves higher costs but you will be 5-15 turns earlier there as your enemy .
Thnx for sharing your strat , i learned a new lesson