[Kristoffer O]

Hi Christopher,

It can be rather important to have a high Dominion value. If you do your sacrificed slaves count for something. There is a dom*10 % chance that a sacrificed slave gives an effect.

Make a prophet out of a High priest of the Sun or a Priest King.

The former is more powerful as a priest, but getting a priest who can cast fanaticism early is rather important to mictlan. The King has more leadership.


Your troops are reasonably good at conquering independents. Javelins are useful. Try to get an early empire and raise the province defense (next to taxes) so the AI do not attack you emmediately.

Your strenghts are blood and cheap numbers. Make tribal kings who pump out slaves. Have them patrol. Collect bloodslaves. Have one priest to sacrifice to keep your dominion OK.

Sun Warriors are good if blessed. Not very expensive, armed with javelins and brave. Fire and blood blessings give them more punch. Nature will increase their powers a lot, but your mages might go berserk at times.

Jaguar warriors will also benefit a lot from nature blessings.

Eagle warriors are useful to take out enemy archers and mages, but are vulnerable.


Construction 4 gives thistle mace => Priest king can cast Dark Vines (Blood 4 IIRC). They are very powerful, but slow.

You start with summoning spells. Use them until you get Dark Vines (after that as well).

Alteration and enchantment are good for buffing your monsters.

Horde from Hell is a most useful spell. You will get a devil commander that can be given magic items.


You have a wide spectra of mages, so searching for magic sites can give you an advantage. This is useful for construction of items for your summoned blood monstrosities (ice devils, arch devils etc).


You can dominion-kill other players easier than most nations. If you build temples close to the enemy and start sacrificing you can take down his dominion (AI at least). Underwater nations can be surprised by this as well. Put a high priest with jade knife in every temple surrounding an enemy capital and you get rid of him without sieges in no time.

However your dominion is rather weak. It will only spread where you sacrifice and that can only be done where you have a temple. So even if you can direct your dominion it will be weak in general.

Basically, you are dependant on your mages. They are used in battle, they spread your dominion, they find sites and blood for your summonings and they perform the constructions and summonings (and you will need to summon as your own troops are weak).