What is the path of blood for?

[Deadnature]

wow, I've heard about b-slave-sharing before, but I didn't realize it had such a wide potential area.

That does explain what happened, since some of the other blood mages used the slaves just to cast "sabath slave" and they were not even close to the sabath master whose slaves they used.

So does that mean that if you have a large sabath communion you need a lot of extra slaves just to make sure the master can cast some expensive blood spell after "sabath master?"

It seems there's no guarantee that the other blood-mages won't use as many of the master's slaves as the want, leaving nothing for the so called master to use.

Thanks for the info Soyweiser!

[Korwin]

If the Sabbat Master casts before the slaves, the slaves couldnt use up the virgins.

[Deadnature]

Good to know, its too bad that would prevent a reverse communion.

[Knai]

If you assign blood slaves to each mage individually, and keep the communion master well away from the communion slaves you might be able too prevent communion slaves from using communion master blood slaves. Of course, doing this does tend to concentrate your slaves in two areas, leaving them vulnerable to, say, bladewind. How much that matters is up for debate, given that they were already one earthquake away from annihilation.

[krpeters]

Originally Posted by Soyweiser

It looks like B mages can use any slave on their side of the battlefield. Do not store spare slaves on other commanders in the battle, use scouts for that.

I don't know if you can use bloodslaves from the other side of the battlefield. But somebody should check that out. Determining the range of the blood slave use is irritating work.

There is definitely a range on blood slaves, but I'm not sure how far it is. I was testing out a call lesser horror strategy with Warlock Apprentices in CBM 1.92. I had three on the board, one at the top rear, one middle rear, one bottom rear, 3 slaves apiece:

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On the first round, the top WA used his two slaves to cast. The middle used the top's third and his own first. The bottom used the middle's second and third.

On the second round, the top could not access any and cast body etheral. The middle used the bottom's first and second. The bottom used his third. So whatever the range is, it's less than the full height of the battlefield, but more than half the height.