Heya!
Indeed, I got 1 or 2 sheep sickness events, the herd hasnot quite
recovered from that and it spiraled downward with quite a speed.
I just hate to demolish something... especially Great temples. it's
not cost, my trade goods can cover that.
And my animal skill is just dreadful. Out of all those nobles, only
1 barntar and one ernalda got excellent. No Uraldan. Needless to say
my Uralda HQ is less utilized than other HQ. Kallyr can do it but
sometimes at the end that HQ throw me a curve ball. {shrug} And
needless to say my Sacred Time Herd Magic is one point (no Uraldan)
so...
My Issaries traders are low level also. So the position of Issaries
helpers in LM HQ is weak, lead to underutilization of LM HQ. Highest
Bargaining is my Trickster.
Oh well, I nearly finish anyway. My Kallyr are doing preparation for
weddings. Still, my hope of high pop, big bully clan is quite
dashed. I got only 4000 this time.
This round I notice an extreme skew on nobles. Dont know why, luck
of the draw perhaps. Last game my adventurous Orlanthi clan got
quite allround godi of noble. This time my Elmal aggressive
landgrabber got many Ernaldan (3-4), Humakt (2-3), Barnstar (2-3)
and less than ideal number of Uraldan. Is my play style affect the
kind of nobles I get or what?
With puzzles
Yo
- In KingOfDragonPass_at_yahoogroups.com, Bryan Thexton
<bethexton_at_...> wrote:
>
> Part of your problem is actually all of those temples. The Ernalda
> temple requires the sacrifice of pigs, all the others require the
> sacrifice of sheep.
>
> With regard to pigs, the Ernalda temple does offer the Swine
Blessing
> blessing, which will help with the size of pig herds--but when
they are
> already so small, this may not matter much.
>
> There is nothing specific you can do about sheep. Basically
unless you
> build up really large sheep herds early on, you can run low later.
> Although, as mentioned, the latest patch does increase the sheep
birth
> rate, or something like that, to make this less of a problem.
However
> even with the patch I've had a couple of games where I fell short
of
> sheep late on (usually I'd lost a bunch to disease at some point,
and
> never fully recovered).
>
> Sometimes when you cattle raid you'll get sheep too. However this
is
> not predictable or reliable, and once your sheep herd has
collapsed in
> numbers this will not generally be enough to make any significant
> difference.
>
> Herd sacred time magic will help all of your animals, but I assume
you
> are already assigning all that you can there.
>
> A really high score in Animals for one of your ring-members will
help
> herd growth somewhat--especially if you can get someone there with
> heroic animals. You can increase Animals ability with the Uralda
> quest, or to a lesser degree using the Ernalda quest (minor impact
on
> animals) or the LM quest to give knowledge to your leaders (each
leader
> gets a bit better in their best skills it seems). But again, this
> won't help much if you don't have much herd left anyway.
>
> So either you just deal with your traders buying sheep and pigs
every
> so often when you run short, or else you tear down a bunch of your
> temples.
>
> Regards;
>
> -Bryan
>