[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Saxon:
I know, usually one does not empower a commander with zero power, I am just exploring this as a possible issue.

Actually, empowering a zero power Nataraja is one of my favourite SC strategies for those magic strong nations that have access to him. It gives you the great scales that a 0 point pretender allows together with an exceptionally deadly SC when equipped correctly, and later on a budding arch-mage when empowered a bit and handed magic-boosting items, of which he can carry more than his fair share. It would not work if those magic-strong nations were not so exceptionally good at finding magical sites, of course.