Does this math work?

[Cainehill]

Boron said:
Ok if you use a castle or similiar you may have bigger numbers . But how do you defend your bloodhunters then early-midgame ?

How's about you build a castle??? Anything wrong with that idea? You should be able to get by (early game) with just a couple of blood hunting provinces, in which case the castle costing 50% more (450 instead of 300) shouldn't matter all that much.

Or you put your blood hunters in the rear echelon, with some chaff in front of and around them, and script them to retreat, which means they don't waste your blood slaves casting spells.