[Fantomen]

One thing I´ve noticed is that if you have very easy access to hordes of free patrollers and growth 3, like the wolves and thralls of LA ulm, it can be a better idea to blood hunt provinces with very large population.

For example I am playing LA ulm (with growth3) in a game where I have blood hunted my capital heavily since year one. I have a couple hundred wolves and thralls patrolling so there is never any unrest and population has increased by a few thousand. Taxes have been 100% all along.

Same thing in 5 other provinces with 15k+ population.

This way it is quite possible to maintain a blood income of more than 100 per turn without any noticable loss of gold.