[Teleolurian]

I found their basic (non-sacred) units so fragile that in an Indy 6 game, I expanded at about the same rate as an Ulm on Easy AI (sad). I too tried full speed blood, since that was what presented itself naturally. I daresay that once you establish a hunting grounds they can get all the uniques significantly earlier than everyone else. As soon as I could afford to mix in sacred units, I set my early expansion tribal king-slaves armies to patrolling provinces to keep down unrest.