Why whould you ever choose Mictlan?

[Zen]

Mictlan-san! I choose you!

[Nappa]

Thanks for all the info.

What is the differance between a 1b with sanguine rod blood hunter and a 2b with sanguine rod blood hunter? nobody has discussed that and from my observations, the 2b with SR bloodhunters do much better.

If the primary advantage of Mictlan is the efficient bloodhunting, do people play by creating a strong early bloodhunting economy and quickly getting the devil factories going and ignoring their substandard troops? Maybe using a SC pretender for initial expansion?

What are the succesful strategies for Mictlan?

[archaeolept]

a 1b + sanguine rod will have a 90% chance of getting 1d6OE+2 slaves in a turn, given no unrest and 5000 population

a 2b + sanguine rod will have a 100% chance of getting 1d6OE+3 slaves in a turn, given.

basically, a sanguine rod counts as +1 blood for the purpose of bloodhunting. the chance for a hunter is 10% +blood*40%, if unrest is rolled above on a 1d400 and population is rolled below on a 1d5000. results are then 1d6 open ended +blood lvl (i think sanguine contributes to this as well, but i'm not absolutely positive).

so a 1b +sanguine is only minorly inferior to a 2b +sanguine. the real advantage of 2b bloodhunters is that you can send them out efficiently w/out first researching and forging sanguine rods.

Mictlan has many disadvantages, but gathering blood is not one of them

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Nappa said:
What is the differance between a 1b with sanguine rod blood hunter and a 2b with sanguine rod blood hunter? nobody has discussed that and from my observations, the 2b with SR bloodhunters do much better.

Do you get more bloodslaves per gold invested with the 2b? I doubt it. Although ultimately, it depends on how much gold a bloodslave is worth to you, but usually it's not worth the extra expense.

If the primary advantage of Mictlan is the efficient bloodhunting, do people play by creating a strong early bloodhunting economy and quickly getting the devil factories going

Well, it's the main point of the theme.

and ignoring their substandard troops?

They're poor quality, anyway don't ignore them completely - there are a few battle enchantments you can use to augment them. I've seen someone use an emergency levy of the crappiest slinger type once, about 80 of them, and annihilate an AE army 5 times its size (mostly soulless and longdead infantry, though) with only minimal priestly support - 4 or 5 mage-priests I think. Flaming Arrows did most of the killing. Not sure if Mass Protection was also up, anyway Mictlan had something like 20 or 25 casualties. Not bad for crappy slingers.

Maybe using a SC pretender for initial expansion?

That's common practice.

What are the succesful strategies for Mictlan?

Many, as long as they're bloody strategies.