Best Setups For Mictlan

[Norfleet]

That's certainly one approach to Mictlan, the "My Dominion Sucks" Version, as Mictlan certainly can choke off the flow of nasty dominion easily enough simply by failure to perform regular sacrificing in certain areas, combined with stone idols to poke holes.

I also don't consider the Jags potent enough to really be worth basing a bless strategy around, but they ARE relatively cheap, and as of newer patches, no longer capitol-only. I personally favor the thinking which states that Mictlan troops are mostly crud, and thus neglect them in favor of going for the blood. Another thing worth noting is that because Jags really have very little merit on their own, they tend to hit obsolescence fairly quickly. When do you start replacing them with blood in your strategy?

[djtool]

what is that blood-9 blessing (death curse) all about anyways?

[Anglachel]

Originally posted by djtool:
what is that blood-9 blessing (death curse) all about anyways?

If I am not mistaken it means that when a troop with death curse is killed it puts a curse on whomever killed it. If this cursed unit lives it will now be more likely to gain afflictions if it survives subsequent combats. Make of it what you will but in a general sense it seems of limited usefulness for the amount of points to gain blood level nine.

[ June 24, 2004, 13:59: Message edited by: Anglachel ]

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Anglachel:
If I am not mistaken it means that when a troop with death curse is killed it puts a curse on whomever killed it.

The curse is only placed if the attacking unit also fails a MR check.

[Anglachel]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
The curse is only placed if the attacking unit also fails a MR check.

Gotcha. Its usefulness seems to be even further into the rubber-crutch/poke-in-the-eye area.

[chrispedersen]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
That's certainly one approach to Mictlan, the "My Dominion Sucks" Version, as Mictlan certainly can choke off the flow of nasty dominion easily enough simply by failure to perform regular sacrificing in certain areas, combined with stone idols to poke holes.

I also don't consider the Jags potent enough to really be worth basing a bless strategy around, but they ARE relatively cheap, and as of newer patches, no longer capitol-only. I personally favor the thinking which states that Mictlan troops are mostly crud, and thus neglect them in favor of going for the blood. Another thing worth noting is that because Jags really have very little merit on their own, they tend to hit obsolescence fairly quickly. When do you start replacing them with blood in your strategy?

Yep, thats the standard thinking on Mictlan. And honestly, it might even be right. However, I enjoy different flavors of the game and Mictlan lets you play a bless based strategy.

I *never* go the blood route.. its much more a swamp them with quality approach.
Remember, you are spending character actions to find bloodslaves, character actions to raise slave armies, character actions to patrol unhappy territories, character actions to summon your devils/demons and imps.

I choose to go an alternate route.. typically like the astral king or supercombatant. But some of the spells legions of steel, mass protection, etc are great too.

As described, believe it or not the jag warriors can go toe to toe with heavy calvary - units which cost twice as much to build - and 1/8th to maintain.

best..

Chris

[chrispedersen]

[quote]Originally posted by Anglachel:

Make of it what you will but in a general sense it seems of limited usefulness for the amount of points to gain blood level nine.

I played with death.. kind of cool to see a jaguar.. turn into a jaguar.. turn into an undead.
Turned out to be not effective tho.