have you ever wondered about life as a vampire? waht it would be like to rule a population where yu truely viewed them only as cattle? your gonna love this.
you have several special units to look at as calabim,
1 - bloodpet ... you can NEVER have enough blood pets. first thing you learn is that a vampire can feed on weaker members of your army to regain health (this kills the unit). however when a vampire feeds on a bloodpet not only do they regain health but they also regain a movement point and can attack again in the same turn.
2 - moroi .... so some bloodpets grow up. mostly the moroi are the little axemen that think they can. they ahve the burning blood ability which they can use on themselves to allow them to attack again in a round (however this normally kills them afterword). they do however have the honored status of being able to be gifted with the vampiric status once they hit 4th level. personally i avoid these if i can
3 - vampires .... damn if they dont show up late in the game but wow are they awesome. they come in 3 types , vampires , brujahs, and vampire lords. where the latter 2 are national units.
teh calabim have a few concerns that many other civs dont ahve to worry about.
1 - food , nothing is on a vampires mind more then food. to this end your going to want to research agriculture first thing and adopt the civic. its all about farms. to aid in your grown you want to build your granery and smokehouse. each of these gives you a 20% starting point on your food for the next population gain. then your also looking at a breeding pit (+2 food and 20% gain). for a total of 60%. yes every population level will start 60% full.
2 - money , you cant work a cottage and a farm at the same time so aristocracy is far and away the best route here. you sacrifice a little food to gain moeny for research. but is all worth it.
3 - happiness , this is the tricky part. you ahve to udnerstand that your people dont like being eaten. its kind of upsets them. and the more you eat the more unhappy they get. so you have to resort to tried and true tactics. found the OO religion and build the tower of complacency and get hemah , or get yourself some archmages.
ok , so where does this all get ya? its all about vampirism and being a sadistic fiend. so you have finally built your first vampire. and hopefully your capital city is sooo upset with you your wondering why people are still there. (yes its ok to have a size 14 city with 7 happy its ok). here the plan is to eat all the unhappy people. eventually you hope all the survivors will learn to smile.
the way this works is you earn xp based on the size of the city. its current population - 3 is how much you get. so if you ahve a size 14 city you will get 11 xp.(please correct if this changes to -4, i forget). now in most cities you will reach a sweet spot where the city will grow every single turn and you can eat every singel turn. the downside is this really upsets people. again lets make them forget they are unhappy.
now you finally after much playing around gotten to the point where your feeling a bit more sadistic.
--- here is where you learn way of the wicked and then head toward the council of esus. the council will make any unit built in the city start with hidden nationality. vampirs with hidden nationality are EVIL... mu ha ha.
--- then i shoudl mention that the calabim have a heroine and her name is losha. all bow down and worship losha , we love her so. losha is a vampire and thus starts with vampirism. however whats easy to miss is that if she kills a LIVING unit in combat she gains the immortal promotion. this can make her very hard to kill. if she jsut happens to be born with her nationality hidden , so much the better .... mu ha ha
really at this point its all fun and killign and blood and grass growing and more blood and ..... maybe some blood. if you ever get bored this is the only civ i have found with what is asclose to an infinity loop as is possible in civ. with a soul forge, a demon alter , and a mage with spirit guide ... take a high level vampire and you can sacrifice him for science.... gain more then enough hammers to build another vamp and carry a portion of his xp over to another vamp in the city..... play with it , its fun
good luck , be evil , enjoy
you have several special units to look at as calabim,
1 - bloodpet ... you can NEVER have enough blood pets. first thing you learn is that a vampire can feed on weaker members of your army to regain health (this kills the unit). however when a vampire feeds on a bloodpet not only do they regain health but they also regain a movement point and can attack again in the same turn.
2 - moroi .... so some bloodpets grow up. mostly the moroi are the little axemen that think they can. they ahve the burning blood ability which they can use on themselves to allow them to attack again in a round (however this normally kills them afterword). they do however have the honored status of being able to be gifted with the vampiric status once they hit 4th level. personally i avoid these if i can
3 - vampires .... damn if they dont show up late in the game but wow are they awesome. they come in 3 types , vampires , brujahs, and vampire lords. where the latter 2 are national units.
teh calabim have a few concerns that many other civs dont ahve to worry about.
1 - food , nothing is on a vampires mind more then food. to this end your going to want to research agriculture first thing and adopt the civic. its all about farms. to aid in your grown you want to build your granery and smokehouse. each of these gives you a 20% starting point on your food for the next population gain. then your also looking at a breeding pit (+2 food and 20% gain). for a total of 60%. yes every population level will start 60% full.
2 - money , you cant work a cottage and a farm at the same time so aristocracy is far and away the best route here. you sacrifice a little food to gain moeny for research. but is all worth it.
3 - happiness , this is the tricky part. you ahve to udnerstand that your people dont like being eaten. its kind of upsets them. and the more you eat the more unhappy they get. so you have to resort to tried and true tactics. found the OO religion and build the tower of complacency and get hemah , or get yourself some archmages.
ok , so where does this all get ya? its all about vampirism and being a sadistic fiend. so you have finally built your first vampire. and hopefully your capital city is sooo upset with you your wondering why people are still there. (yes its ok to have a size 14 city with 7 happy its ok). here the plan is to eat all the unhappy people. eventually you hope all the survivors will learn to smile.
the way this works is you earn xp based on the size of the city. its current population - 3 is how much you get. so if you ahve a size 14 city you will get 11 xp.(please correct if this changes to -4, i forget). now in most cities you will reach a sweet spot where the city will grow every single turn and you can eat every singel turn. the downside is this really upsets people. again lets make them forget they are unhappy.
now you finally after much playing around gotten to the point where your feeling a bit more sadistic.
--- here is where you learn way of the wicked and then head toward the council of esus. the council will make any unit built in the city start with hidden nationality. vampirs with hidden nationality are EVIL... mu ha ha.
--- then i shoudl mention that the calabim have a heroine and her name is losha. all bow down and worship losha , we love her so. losha is a vampire and thus starts with vampirism. however whats easy to miss is that if she kills a LIVING unit in combat she gains the immortal promotion. this can make her very hard to kill. if she jsut happens to be born with her nationality hidden , so much the better .... mu ha ha
really at this point its all fun and killign and blood and grass growing and more blood and ..... maybe some blood. if you ever get bored this is the only civ i have found with what is asclose to an infinity loop as is possible in civ. with a soul forge, a demon alter , and a mage with spirit guide ... take a high level vampire and you can sacrifice him for science.... gain more then enough hammers to build another vamp and carry a portion of his xp over to another vamp in the city..... play with it , its fun
good luck , be evil , enjoy
