[JimMorrison]

Summoning a Demonbred for 30 slaves sounds like it would really help Abysia a lot, in a fair and balanced fashion.

I haven't done MA Abysia in MP, but in SP, what I've ended up doing, is 2 Apprentice per province (3 per until you get SDR), get them boots ASAP. I use Apprentices exclusively for hunting, because they get useful randoms, and I set the "special" ones aside in my capital for forging purposes. I only recruit Demonbred for combat duty, never for hunting.

Oh, and I take 2 Death. You have no income penalty, and 2D is quite survivable, you just can't sit inactive for huge lengths of time.