Who is the most powerful nation and why?

[Baalz]

moderation said:
How does EA Lanka stack up against EA Mictlan? I was reading a thread comparing who was the most powerful blood nation (I will post it if I can find it again). The gist of the arguments seemed to be Lanka is more versatile, but Mictlan is more focuses and has lower upkeep for it's primary blood hunters. Of course, perhaps you could switch to using summons for blood hunting and then not pay any gold upkeep, but I'm not sure how well that would work.

I was arguing in that thread (too lazy too look it up) that EA Mictlan has a tighter focus on blood than Lanka for a couple reasons. Not only are the blood hunters cheaper, so are their sacreds - and well pretty much everything. Mictlan also has greater motivation to focus on blood whereas Lanka could very well do a very effective weak or no blood strategy. Mictlan also has a good upkeep free national summonable blood hunter (who doubles as a leech spamming assassin) that pays for herself in about half a year. I'm not as familiar with Lanka, do they have a reasonably priced summonable blood hunter?

I think that Mictlan will be able to pull in more blood slaves and has more motivation to focus on blood research. I think they are the heavyweight champions of the blood game, but I don't know that I think they're overall stronger than Lanka.