[Taqwus]

von_Schmidt --

Yep. The "Ancient Presence" event is nasty even if you win, too, since a rather large portion of the province's population is killed.

Pan CW not only cranks out units with sleep vines, it even gets a darn fine SC chassis (an Ettin Mandragora -- numerous hp, three arm slots, other slots mostly normal except maybe -1 misc?, recuperation!) with something like 2 or 3 sleep vines.