Nation Guide (in progress): LA Ulm

[Lokean]

Originally Posted by Horst F. JENS

Member_of_the_Second_Tier 160 gold, 1 res, stealthy (35) S2B1 10%SBDF

Your main Blood Hunter.

Actually, I tried using these as my blood hunters (until I had counts spare) and it just seemed too wasteful. I was using Misfortune to balance my scales and found that the 25% Blood picks on Fortune Tellers meant that by the time I started to kick my blood economy into high gear I was in a position to blood hunt using Fortune Tellers with Dousing Rods.
Honestly, if they weren't capital only I'd have been recruiting them all over the place. I'm not quite sure how the ability to cancel bad events works, but it doesn't seem to be tested the way you would expect; the provinces with a horde of Fotune Tellers simply never, ever received a bad event.
The ones that don't get a blood pick have a 33% chance of a death pick, which makes them perfect for spamming Nether Darts, and they can all be a communion slaves, too. When I had a few spare death gems I was using a boosted fortune teller to forge skulls, so they made pretty handy researchers on top of everything else.
Since they're capital only you'd sometimes have to supplement them with Second Tier mages for blood hunting, but I'd certainly ship them off to the front lines as soon as I could replace them with properly equipped Fortune Tellers.

[chrispedersen]

After playing around a bit more, I absolutely love the free spawns. However, if you are playing CBM, FoB is too cool not to pick - and you almost have more points than you really know what to do with.

If not, it gets more interesting. I played with a master lich - but was always toooo busy with him to actually use him to attack - So I would say that awe is unnecessary.

As below, I really like researching conj 3 - so having something with water 2 for voice of apsu, would be a nice little plus.

Conjuration is your definite first priority, for dark knowledge; after that its up to you .. but even with Mage3, I found myself hungering for skull mentors- just seemed so .. thematic....

Finally 2nd tiers are way too expensive for blood hunting - and not nearly good enough at it. However, they are incredible - for naturally combining communions and sabbaths... and they are peculiarly good for a linebacker communion with hellpower.

I ***do**** hate the random number generators. First 10 E25%...were all e2. Which is ridiculously slim chances.