Thoughts on the Sheddu pretender?
 

This is vaguely without a specific nation context, although I have been playing around with LA C'tis briefly, which is why I was thinking about it.

I'm curious what people's impressions of it are. Its got E and S magic, which is a pretty good combination, but unfortunately no hands to hold a hammer. Its also got a ton of hp, trample, and flying. Ie, sounds ideal for a reasonably to rather cheap awake SC chassis (since it doesn't need Awe at all, although you could go that road). I'm not sure if it can start expanding right away - I haven't tried without researching Alteration 1 first for personal luck.

Re: Thoughts on the Sheddu pretender?
 

It's great. I used it with EA C'tis.
It can take out ANY province, knights, barbarians... anything, right from the start.
I used E4S6. Once you research buffs like luck, body.e. earth power and teleport he is very nasty.
And S6 is great because you can cast wish in the late game once you get a ring, a coin and a cap, which he can all forge if needed.