Blood Magic Question

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by z0dd:
- Flying demon/devil/vampire summoned armies are brutal!!!

IMO, that Last item is the only one that makes blood magic useful.

Anyone have other suggestions?

Dont forget the items. Personally I use alot of bloodslaves on contracts and black hearts. That devils horde or whatever it is can be very useful also for taking a back province away from an enemy.

[PvK]

There are many evil options for blood magic. The really evil ones aren't very easy ... fortunately.

PvK

[z0dd]

Originally posted by licker:
Some coments on the above...

If you set taxes to zero why bother patroling?

In my game, I have about 10 blodd hunters in a 14k population province, harvesting 50+ slaves a turn. The unrest is out of control even with 0 taxes. Not only do I have to patrol, but I have to patrol it heavily. Yes, I could move my hunting posse to a different province for a few turns, but then I wouldn't get 50+ slaves a turn.

Originally posted by licker:
Order3 does nothing for unrest, it has no effect on blood hunting at all (though it did effect unrest in Dom1).

Hm. Order 3 won't bring down unrest at all? What is Order for then?

Originally posted by licker:

Flying armies are useful to be sure, but there's more to blood than just hoards of fliers, unless you get mount chaining I suppose Lots of good items to forge as well, and good battlefield spells in the higher levels.

Yes, I need to put more effort into my item building game. I will try this. Thanks.

[Master Shake]

Summon imp is a great cheap, early battlefield blood magic spell. Blood skill 2 to cast, blood magic research 1 or 2 (can't remember). A great way to tie up a cavalry charge or get archers to fire into their own troops (trying to kill the imps). You get fewer summons than you do with swarm, but imps have moderate attack, strength and defense and can actually inflict damage.

[Taqwus]

Order now mostly affects tax income, and also has an impact on random event frequency. It also has a minor flavoring effect for Tien Chi.

[mivayan]

Order gives money! 7% income per scale step. More money = more bloodhunters = fun. Growth scale is nice when using blood in long games, to counter the population loss from bloodhunts and patrols.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Master Shake:
Summon imp is a great cheap, early battlefield blood magic spell. Blood skill 2 to cast, blood magic research 1 or 2 (can't remember).

Blood skill 1 to cast and blood magic 1 to research.