standard pangenea : usefulness of maenards ? or rely on blood ?

[Boron]

i discovered pangenea once again .
there was a great pangeneadiscussion here some months ago which i read .

the maenard idea is basically nice since they are upkeepfree . but the pans are damn expensive and turmoil 3 is very bad with that .

so when you most need them for early expansion you won't get enough to rely on them .
but later if you have e.g. 5 pans i think you get ~50 / turn .
so since they don't have recuperation you will run into supply problems quite soon then. forging cauldrons of broth just for them is gemwasting . with your quite lousy research researching con 4 early for the cheaper bags of vine is perhaps no good idea too .

but supply issues will prevent you from making the hordes in which they would be really useful i think
they are just worst cannon fodder like basic ermorian undeads but you can't use them in great enough numbers .
they can't be banished but almost each missile hit kills a maenard and supplies are a real problem.
question : if other supply using troops are in the same area is there a system which troops aren't feed or is it randomly ?
e.g. that the first troops who getting nothing to eat are the maenards ?

i guess i try them as a blood nation but a 320 non sacred blood mage is damn expensive
for early expansion i most likely use the revelrers they aren't very good but at least cheap

another question : is there any race which has mages with blood 2+ earth 2+ or at least picks in both able to summon demon knights ?
has perhaps one of the amazon sorceresses these 2 pathes ?