Boot Camp - Finished - Soyweiser/Jotunheim wins!

[DragonRider]

Really? Damn, maybe I should have gone for construction earlier after all. At the time I assumed there was basically no chance you hadn't rushed straight down the construction line, so I didn't bother and went for moderately useful utility spells first. It didn't occur to me that you would go for blood first...I assumed one would typically do blood research later on after you've already built up a ton of slaves researching other stuff. I guess I can't say that it didn't pay off, though.

And I know from experience that blood hunting in lowish-population isn't that bad. I'm playing Helheim in my other game and pairs of sucky B1 Vanjarls with rods still seem to get an average of maybe ten slaves per turn in 2000-3500 population provinces. I've never played a real blood nation though, so maybe that isn't very impressive.

I had been waiting for a good opportunity to nuke that province for a long time. I almost went for a regular Fires from Afar hit a long time ago, but since the base damage was only 10 I was worried that the element of randomness would make it not get enough kills, and I knew it was probably going to be a one-shot deal (obviously you're going to fill the place with wolves or someting now), so I decided to wait for Flames from the Sky. Then again, I could have afforded a lot more Fires from Afar casts in one turn, so maybe it still would have been a better bet. Hard to say, since I've never actually seen either cast before.