[Olive]

Hi,

Isn't turmoil 3 slowing the initial expansion (few money to recruit jag warriors and build forts / temples) and the switch to blood economy (few money to build castles/temples/labs and recruit blood hunters) ? I've tried (SP) and found myself very vulnerable for a while (almost no armies), I'm lucky the AIs were elsewhere.

Any ideas to build armies able to stop an eventual early aggression ?

I also thought of an early rush to Alteration 5 / Conjuration 3 to cast Mother Oak. It should work only with a magic scale and a bit luck in finding nature sites. The Oak may allow to summon 17 sacred jaguars / 2 turns and compensate the lack of recruitment. Don't know if that's worth the research cost though ?