[shovah]

standard blood hunting squad is 3 lvl 1 blood mages with dousing rods in 5000+ pop province (preferably wityh a lowish income) and 0% taxs. build a lab to pool your gems and possibly a temple to spread dominion in each of these provinces. as said f9 is nice and remember you start with the fiend of darkness spell, these guys have good stats and 2 attacks so use them. if you want a combat pretender try a lord of the night or whatever that bat guy is, he starts with death and blood and i tend to add f9 (then his fireshield rocks) and e3-4 (knights, father illearth and protection upgrades)