[Aku]

Well I have never played Vanheim so I don't know about the sailing stuff much. But yeah I try not to go into a battle unless I know I will win.

I am not sure how much SP experience you have but you can call your god back with your priests. He will lose one from each magic path though. I don't know if anything happens if you don't call him back. If your god was a rainbow pretender then he basically got screwed but otherwise I would call him back. And I guess make nice with the panther or try to be ready for when he pounces.