Hrmmm

[Agrajag]

Why 55559555 and not 44449444?
The extra point does not help with the bless, nor with site searching (if you use your pretender for site searching), only with research (and obviously access to more spells.), and the extra point could be well spent on better scales or dominion strength.
And how can you even survive with dominion strength 2? O:

[Endoperez]

Agrajag said:
Why 55559555 and not 44449444?
The extra point does not help with the bless, nor with site searching (if you use your pretender for site searching), only with research (and obviously access to more spells.), and the extra point could be well spent on better scales or dominion strength.
And how can you even survive with dominion strength 2? O:

With Blood Sacrifice (Mictlan, Abysia, Vanheim) he can get more dominion fast - it requires micromanagement, but can work.

Also, when he says he doens't play for winning, he means it.

[Gandalf Parker]

Actually the 55559555 was a proof-of-concept to see how high I could get it.
But your points are all valid (including Endoperez about the way I play)
In the original thread Kristoffer said "It is widely believed that Gandalf is mad "

Here is a slightly less extreme suggestion by an expert player.

Smoking Mirror
dominion 5
Mausoleum (admin 20)
order +3 produc -3 heat 1 growth -1 luck -3 magic -3
give 177 gold at capitol
magic : fire 9, water 4, earth 4, nature 4, death 4, blood 4 (28 RP in drain 3)

[Wish]

tried that out, a wave of jaguars really makes a difference!

[Folket]

When I plaied Mictlan I used 9F9S9W4B oracle with 10 in dominion. And build 10 eagle warriors every turn. It works very well. Your eagle warriors will kill anything. An once you get your income up you may start building Jaguar warriors at non capital fortresses or start blood hunting.

I remember a MP game. First C'tis attacked me and I finished him off pretty fast. Then Pangaea attack me and I pushed him back, While fighting them Ulm attacked me and I crushed him. But did not manage to capture all his fortresses before Arcocephale and Marignon attacked me. The deathstroke was Marignon casting fire from afar killing off my eagle warriors, but I gave it a good shot.

Against the AI any bless strategi will work as they have no way to adapt.

In general I have found that the eagle warrior is the best sacred unit. Flying and with two attacks for 15 gold.