[WraithLord]

I did some testing with the following.
Lord of Nature, 4 nature, 1 blood, 3 turmoil, 0 prod, 3 luck, 2 magic.
I immediately recruited a pan to attract maenads.
Then I recruited a mino commander and made him my prophet and set him on hold/cast*5, attack closest and put him in the center with 2-5 minos on hold, attack closest. He is really strong in battles!
My first army was composed of my pretender, prophet and that white centaur commander (forgot it's name).
With indies strength of 8, I started capturing provinces at turn 5.
I would capture a province, search it and capture the next.
At the mean time I recruited pans and dryads ( for research) in my capital.
At turn 12 I had four pans and started receiving a fair amount of maenads each turn.
I plan next to employ a second strong army to capture strong indie provinces and then employ stealthy teams of centaur warriors to capture lightly guarded enemy provinces.
I slapped some minor magic items on my pretender and truth is he's performing very well in battles.

Thanks for all the advice.