slavery details

[Vulture12]

So I'm sitting at work planning out my next FFH2 game because our processing systems are down. Can anyone provide the details for the slavery civic? I've checked the manual and the wiki but neither have them. Thanks.

 

[xalien]

It allows you to use your population to rush production (same as in BTS) and and 25% of your victories against living units will net you a slave that can be used as either a worker (50% work rate IIRC) or rush a building or wonder (15 on normal speed).

 

[Vulture12]

thanks!

 

[Azhral]

Don't forget the +1 Hammer from quarries!

 

[Rekov]

The wiki says there is a bug involving sacrificing slaves for production. It says that the sacrificed slave still has a maintenance cost. Is this still a bug?

 

[Emptiness]

I just checked 0.41n and unit support costs are correctly decreased when a slave is used to hurry production. That was probably an old bug, and the wiki was probably not updated when it was fixed.

 

[BlakeTheDrake]

Aditional question: Does the Slavery Civic 'stack' with the fixed 25% enslaving-odds of the Balseraph Taskmaster and Courtesan units? So you'd have a 50% chance to enslave if you were using one of those under Slavery Civic?

Oh, and some additional info for the OP: Slaves retain their 'Race', but no other enhancements. That means that Dwarven slaves will have improved work-rate and fast movement in hills, Elven slaves will have reduced work-rate but can build improvements in forests, ect.

Also, the Balseraph can use slaves to build 'Slave Cages' in their Freakshows - one for each of the main races (Human, Elf, Dwarf and Orc) to boost Happiness, Culture and (I think) Great Person Generation. Barbaric, but convenient...

 

[DaveGold]

Slaves can also be upgraded to lunatics.

 

[Emptiness]

Aditional question: Does the Slavery Civic 'stack' with the fixed 25% enslaving-odds of the Balseraph Taskmaster and Courtesan units? So you'd have a 50% chance to enslave if you were using one of those under Slavery Civic?

Yes. Filler.

 

[BlakeTheDrake]

Slaves can also be upgraded to lunatics.

...and, even if you skipped Octopus Overlords-related tech entirely, directly to Berserkers. Which is mostly useful if you managed to enslave some handy races, such as Centaurs (for their Haste-spell) or a Dragon.