I am also playing caveman 2 cosmos, history rewritten, realism invictus and never used play now.
Update Aristrakh : Turn 400 - my soul vault is 224 so no excessive surplus though I am not at war, only hunting barbs and animals not too far from my territory since Bannor already asked for 770gold which I refused
ME - Capital : 14 Other cities : 6 5 2 (I still think that +4 soul consumption would not hurt and not make Aris too strong) 488 score
Svart : 13 / 11 10 8 4 4 1 Score 856
Hippus : 11/ 10 5 3 2 1 Score 569
Bannor : 14 / 13 13 11 10 10 8 7 5 5 Score 1536
Took imperialistic trait to help build buildings in other cities. Both Bannor and Svart are on sorcery they hope to outcast me. I am behind in research but working on writing and planting new city soon. If I can manage to survive Bannor crusade will provide more info
Upd : Turn 450 still no one attacked me :O can it be because of hordes of Skeletons (no support cost) from Necromantic Rite? My soul vault is on 85 I will need to build catalyst soon or attack someone. It is good that player can choose in my opinion.
Upd2 : Turn 465 Rivanna the Wraithlady asked help against Bannor so I sided with her, though it will be defensive war for quite some time. I am not eager to face those demon hunters and clerics in field with my undeads this soon
Upd3 : Turn 560
Capital 18 Other cities : 8 7 5 2 1
Svart : 14 / 11 10 6 6 - being conquered by Bannor
Hippus : 22 / 19 10 9 8 8
Bannor : 23 / 22 20 17 16 ...
I am now at war with Bannor and Hippus + have 2 void catalyst and have to
completely disagree that soul generation is too high because I am moving between 0-75 souls in vault.
Capital with its soul consumption 3 palace + 1 tainted well + 1 undead city +1 unholy glyphs + 4 catacombs + 5 cabal shrine +2 circle of blood = 17 souls per turn
Other cities 1 tainted well + 1 undead city +1 unholy glyphs = 3. In turns when there is no big fight all souls from vault devours capital and other cities stop growing so I do still
VOTE for unlocking catacombs to other cities
Upd4 : Turn 800
Now that I have taken charismatic trait and backed SOD with Nikephoros I can finally go and raze any city I`d wish, now I have surplus of souls around 600 but until now it was struggling for every soul
@esvath can it be done so Aristrakh could rebuild defiler when barbarian necromancer with skeletons builds cemetery there (defiler takes resource away)? Should have protected it but have to get one more spell tech to train Tomb Lords. Or give some nice yields from cemetery for Aristrakh?