[aldin]

Nerfix,

From everything I can figure, Death Magic, Blood Magic and Underwater Nations all require unique, sophisticated playing styles and are thus unsuitable for learning the game.

Liga,

I don't have a perfect grasp on when to search for sites. I've also used my pretender that way very sucessfully after I didn't NEED them for reasearch or combat. Make sure you get priests out looking too. Highly mobile pretenders (like the Moloch, flying 3) are awesome searchers.

I left out prophets in part because there's another thread going on prophets and in part because I don't think I have a good feel for the best way to use them yet. My current thoughts have me using the prophet on my defensive border maintaining dominion while my pretender is on the active front spreading dominion.

~Aldin