How to use blood magic effectively in battles?

[konming]

I think Hellbind Heart is just like Charm, even longer range, but high fatigue cost and requires blood slave. It certainly is better than enslave. But all these spells tends to work on single more powerful target, as area kill is hard to find.

[AreWeInsaneYet]

why the hell would you ever need the area kill in blood?
just like the blood astral magic also lacks aoe spell and nobody suffers from that. there's not a single nation have no access to nonblood magic, just move your *** and youll be more comfort.

[DrPraetorious]

Water magic sucks in combat except for falling frost, frozen heart, quickness and the various underwater spells which are all sheer gravy (except, okay, the zap spell, that's not much good) - in other words, it sucks except for all the spells it gets, which are good

Blood Rain is often an outstanding spell, especially if you have a bunch of fearless units.
Agony is also more effective than it looks. With the great range and large AoE, you can rout whole armies with it. Falling foo is better but that doesn't mean Agony isn't good.

Blood Vengeance is actually worth casting on a number of units - if you head straight for Blood 9, you can have Jotun Skratti cast it and then turn into werewolves. Instant SCs - this really works, although anything requiring a 9 that just clears chaff is, admittedly, not infinitely exciting.
Might as well cast Pain Transfer at the same time if you're swimming in slaves.

Blood Lust is always worth casting as Lanka.

[Cor2]

DrPraetorious said:
Falling foo

NOooooooo Any thing but falling foo!

[Cheezeninja]

I've found summon imp to be a very effective spell to boost early expansion. Beyond that it probably isn't very useful unless you happen to have a research armada of B1 mages in good position to charge in and summon a literal horde of imps.

[Burnsaber]

Cheezeninja said:
I've found summon imp to be a very effective spell to boost early expansion. Beyond that it probably isn't very useful unless you happen to have a research armada of B1 mages in good position to charge in and summon a literal horde of imps.

Imps are pretty brutal if you buff them a bit. A round of summoning imp horders + Rush of Strenght (or that spell which gave all demons Str boost) can give those buggers a real bunch.

[FAJ]

Blood is most useful for helping out your own forces, not really hurting the others.

Reinvigorate, rush of strength, bloodlust etc.

Blood vengence is a nice one too. Pheonix pyre + Blood vengence is a decent boost for your own SCs late game.

[Lingchih]

Hellbind Heart, in my experience (very limited... I don't use Blood much), is inferior to Charm. It cost 100 fatigue, requiring you to use Reinvigoration plus a bunch of blood slaves, to cast it multiple times, and does not seem to hit as hard as Charm.

[Velusion]

Yea, Blood Vengeance is another good B9 spell for SCs/Thugs.

Oh and LfL is actually lvl 8, so not quite as bad.

The best are still Infernal Prison and Claws of Kokytos. As someone mentioned before they are the ultimate anti-SC spells.

[sum1lost]

Bloodletting is actually brutal against large armies. One player used it to slaughter my communions and legions very effectively in Chinchilla.