Various Mictil questions

[Freyland]

SelfishGene, this forum is no less mine than it is his. To "order" me to fix some aspect of my post is demeaning and suggests he holds some superior position over me, and neither of us holds anything of the sort over the other. Please reconsider who you are calling rude, as I was not the first to throw a stone. Thanks!

I did not know that recruiting slaves cost population, but I suspected it. Just not enough time in the day to test all the depth (or, not well documented) aspects of this game!

As for the first game, I eventually had to ditch it. I stopped receiving stern looks from Jotun and instead was stabbed with a strong drive through my territory, all the way north of my position to Arcoscephale's old fortress! Those giants were starving, but still nigh unstoppable. In one turn, Jotun was seiging two of my bases and Caelum was seiging the third one! Fortunately, I was able to break two seiges and repel the storming on my main (weak) watchtower the next turn. However, despite my best efforts, I kept losing ground. The Last straw was having all three of my Mercs leave me for other nations on the same turn. I guess they saw the writing on the wall too.....

The next game was with the same Pretender 'class' but only Blood 6, Death, Fire and Astral 2. My fortress was better off, as was my dominion, but my starting position was on the small island continent on the Eye of the Desert map. Now I had resources, but gold was slow in coming. Plus, the Atlanteans were essentially *right next to me*, and they kept assaulting my coast with no way for me to retaliate. Naturally, I am closely surrounded by three other nations as well. What is saving my bacon is: 1)I got a lucky tax break with 500 gold! 2) My Pretender can summon Fiends in battle (I know, I know... it says that in the text, but I misunderstood) and 3) finally, I took a province to my south with a DemonGate! It gives me a fiend each turn (with a blood mage occupying it) for free. I am slowly building up that province both for defense and to recruit the Ichthyids which inhabit the province, so I can stick it to the Atlanteans. I still have lots to learn with this Nation, but I am feeling a bit better about this round!

Thanks for all the help thus far!

Jonathan