Blood Hunting as MA Abyssia?

[Gokufan1988]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to blood hunt as MA Abyssia in an unmodded game. Here are their blood mages with the stats I think are pertinent to blood hunting ability (all cap only.)

Warlock Apprentice
130g, B2S1, old

Warlock
270g, B3S2?1, very old

Demonbred
260g, B2F2H2, sacred, flying, not even close to old

Obviously the warlocks are your heavy lifter blood mages, not bloodhunters.

So the competition is between Warlock Apprentices and Demonbred. For 130g extra (sacred so upkeep is equal) you get flying and don't have to worry about old age. That said, once you get to const 6 you can have the apprentice forge boots of youth his first turn for 10 slaves (7 w/hammer) which removes the old age issue.

I'm thinking apprentices in the beginning since early on 130 gold can be alot. But once you get more gold coming in and have const 6 researched I'm not really sure.

Some other issues:
Sanguine dowsing rods? I'm not sure if these are worth the slaves+turn spent forging when your hunters are B2.

How many hunters per province. When playing as Lanka I'd use three, but again I'm not sure when the hunters are more expensive and B2.

Should I build labs in blood provinces? I'm thinking that depending on luck it will take a hunter 3-5 turns to fill up on slaves, so if you didn't build a lab you'd be spending 2/5 to 2/7 of your time walking back and forth to your deposit province (and that's if they can make it in one turn.)

Any thoughts would be appreciated!