[Huzurdaddi]

So I have been trying out SC pretenders and here is what I have tried so far with the results:

In all cases I only sent them out after Alteration3 and Enchantment1 were researched.

1) Ghost King. The current "hot" SC choice. Gave him 1 Fire, 2 Air, 3 water, and 3 earth. Buffs: Quickness, Iron Skin, Mistform, Breath of Winter, Fire Shield.

Results: a crap shoot. Sometimes he cleans up against all indeps. Once in a while he dies. I have seen him die against militia once. Amazing. Quite often he runs into mages who cast dust to dust and he gets killed. Heavy Cav has I would figure a 20% chance to kill him. He gets aflications, on average, after about 10 provinces.

2) VQ with 1 Fire, 2 Air, 2 Water, 1 Earth. Buffs: Quickness, Iron Skin, Mistform, Breath of Winter, Fire Shield.

Really quite solid. But really expensive it hurts your scales. Hard to get much more than 5 dominion which limits where you can go ( you have to follow dominion around ).

2) VQ with 1 Fire, 2 Water, 1 Earth. Buffs: Quickness, Iron Skin, Breath of Winter, Fire Shield.

A little cheaper, but had real problems with Heavy cav, less than 50% chance of killing a HV province, but OTOH the only thing you lose is time.

3) Wyrm with 1 fire, 2 water, 1 air, 3 earth. Pretty decent. Does not pick up afflictions. Better against Heavy cav, but still can get killed perhaps 25% of the time. And will never be able to fly ( no feet ) which is a serious drawback. But it was doing better than the Ghost King.

So am I missing something? Does anyone know of a better build? Indeps were set to 7 since that is the game I am about to start. I would hate to use the ghost king since it seems like a crap shoot. Maybe one out of every 2 or 3 games everything works great and he does very well. But the other times something goes horribly wrong and he's done.