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 ====Transporting blood slaves==== ====Transporting blood slaves====
  
-If blood hunters find blood slaves, but there is no lab in the province, the blood slaves go directly into their inventory. To use these slaves for rituals, you will need to ferry them back to a lab and transfer them into your treasury using another commander. In many games you will see two indie ??Commander??s going back and forth between a blood hunting province and a neighbouring forted lab. The hotkey Shift + V deposits blood slaves from all commanders in a province onto the selected commander - use it to save a lot of clicking while managing your blood economy.+If blood hunters find blood slaves, but there is no lab in the province, the blood slaves go directly into their inventory. To use these slaves for rituals, you will need to ferry them back to a lab and transfer them into your treasury using another commander. In many games you will see two indie ??Commander??s going back and forth between a blood hunting province and a neighbouring forted lab. The hotkey Shift + V deposits blood slaves from all commanders in a province onto the selected commander, and Shit + Z deposits all blood slaves from the selected commander into your treasury (if the province has a lab) - use these to save a lot of clicking while managing your blood economy.
  
 One cool outcome of this process is that blood hunters will often have a lot of blood slaves with them if their province is ever attacked. This can be absolutely devastating to raiding parties if you have ??Leech?? researched, and is still a bit problematic even if you only have ??Summon Imps??. One cool outcome of this process is that blood hunters will often have a lot of blood slaves with them if their province is ever attacked. This can be absolutely devastating to raiding parties if you have ??Leech?? researched, and is still a bit problematic even if you only have ??Summon Imps??.
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 ===="Bootstrapping" into blood==== ===="Bootstrapping" into blood====
  
-One of the more well-known facts about Blood magic is that it can be bootstrapped into relatively easily from scratch compared to other magic paths, as any commander can blood hunt. This usually looks like mass recruiting any cheap indie commander and having them blood hunt in a province with lots of patrollers. Each has only a 10% chance of success, but enough hunters will eventually find a few blood slaves. If you are able to save up {{gems>50B}}, you can empower a commander to {{path>B1}}, then make a Sanguine Dowsing Rod with {{gems>5B}}, allowing them to hunt with the effectiveness of a {{path>B2}} mage. This is a lot easier if you luck into one of the few sites that are immediately visible and provide a passive blood slave income (e.g. the Slave Market). Zotz, a fairly common indie type underground, innately have a blood searcher bonus that only activates when they are empowered in blood, so you could use them to start a blood economy as well.+One of the more well-known facts about Blood magic is that it can be bootstrapped into relatively easily from scratch compared to other magic paths, as any commander can blood hunt. This usually looks like mass recruiting any cheap indie commander and having them blood hunt in a province with lots of patrollers. Each has only a 10% chance of success, but enough hunters will eventually find a few blood slaves. If you are able to save up {{gems>50B}}, you can empower a commander to {{path>B1}}, then make a Sanguine Dowsing Rod with {{gems>5B}}, allowing them to hunt with the effectiveness of a {{path>B2}} mage. This is a lot easier if you luck into one of the few sites that are immediately visible and provide a passive blood slave income (e.g. the Slave Market). Zotz, a fairly common indie type underground, innately have a blood searcher bonus that only activates when they are empowered in blood, so they can be used to kick-start a blood economy more easily than empowering a regular commander.
  
 Alternatively, hire the mercenary Göte ({{path>D2B2}}) as soon as he appears and use him to blood hunt for you! Alternatively, hire the mercenary Göte ({{path>D2B2}}) as soon as he appears and use him to blood hunt for you!
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 ===Utility=== ===Utility===
-  * ??Lifelong Protection??: an incredible source of chaff that continues working throughout the whole battle. Slightly nerfed from Dominions 5 in that there is a global limit on the number of ??Imp??s that can be produced from LLPs in any one battle, but still invaluable for messing with enemy formations or providing extra bodies to assist solo thugs.+  * ??Lifelong Protection??: an incredible source of chaff. Slightly nerfed from Dominions 5 in that there is a global limit on the number of ??Imp??s that can be produced from LLPs in any one battle, but still invaluable for messing with enemy formations or providing extra bodies to assist solo thugs.
   * ??Sanguine Dowsing Rod??: essential for any established blood economy. Pays for itself quickly and greatly improves the blood hunting success of less-skilled hunters.   * ??Sanguine Dowsing Rod??: essential for any established blood economy. Pays for itself quickly and greatly improves the blood hunting success of less-skilled hunters.
   * ??The Heart of Life??: cannot be removed from its bearer, but grants a net +5 reinvigoration.   * ??The Heart of Life??: cannot be removed from its bearer, but grants a net +5 reinvigoration.
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