Getting a blood economy going

[Huzurdaddi]

So getting a blood economy going seems to be pretty important in a multiplayer game. So I have to ask the pros: how do you do it? What turn do you start working on it?

Of course for a blood nation the answers are "I use blood mages and blood hunt" and "turn 1." But how do you do it with a non-blood nation?

Do you use scouts to blood hunt? Do you wait until you can get randoms which haev blood magic ( even if your nation does not have randoms and thus wait for indeps?)?

And by which turn do you realize that you *have* to get a blood economy working? By turn 10? By turn 20? By turn 30? And do you go into it whole hog or slowly?

Gimmie details!