[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Truper:
You can still use him as a SC - just not in the "Lone Ranger" mode in which he and his Imps would be the only friendly units on the battlefield. Use him in support of other friendly forces, or work around the problem by sticking some units at the back of the battleboard with hold orders.

This will then cripple his strategic mobility, since he'll be limited to attacking only adjacent provinces: There aren't very many flying units that won't rush into the battle (and then die). I think the only ones that come to mind are Storm Demons and Caelumian archers. This severely limits your options.

The role in which I think he could truly excel is as an anti-SC, since he has, iirc, the highest inherent attack skill of any pretender.

He can fight reasonably well if you can do something about his cowardice. This involves having to saddle him with troops that may not be able to be adequately protected from battlefield nastiness, and probably encumber his strategic move to a level that makes difficult to keep up with more mobile SCs, or sacrificing an item slot to collar him. Alone, however, his imps are liable to kill themselves quickly and rout him again.

Yes, it's entirely possible to have him accompany an army, but then you've largely defeated the point of having what would otherwise be a high-class SC chassis and reduced him to the level of artillery support. Certainly he does this well at the moment, since the only reason to take him at all is for the Fire-9 bless, but as an SC chassis, he's of very questionable worth at present.