Guide to EA Mictlan and bloodhunting

[13lackGu4rd]

Jaguar Warriors are very very cheap, at 25 a piece with dom6-8 you can easily recruit max Jaguar Warriors each turn even under Turmoil3 and Sloth3 while you're at it. also, since you're only using sacred troops(Jaguar Warriors) your upkeep doesn't get as large as nation that rely on their national non sacred troops. another thing, you're starting army is pretty useless, so use it to patrol your capital while setting taxes to 150% for some additional gold early on, will allow you to get your 2nd, 3rd and even 4th castles pretty early if you keep on expanding, easy with your Jaguar Warriors under a good bless and with H3 Priests Divine Blessing them if you need a mass.

personally I go for const4(SDRs for Mictlan Priests) than Blood all the way to 9 pretty much. not much point getting anything else early on as your Jaguar Warriors are capable enough on both offense and defense, and your power lays with Blood magic...

[Olive]

Okay, I should try again. I do set the taxes at 150%, even 200% for the first 3 turns. I was playing late era, with is much similar to early though, but all castles are 1200 gold (except the too rare Hillfort at 800), maybe that's where were my financial difficulties.

I push the early search to construction 6 - lightless lanterns to boost research. More useful with drain 2 than magic 1 though.

I use slingers as arrow catchers - with indies at 8, they cut the jaguar warriors losses.