Long time ago, i played with Arco and i selected a white bull as a pretender.
Along with a very strong dominion, a gift of health and some regenerative items mixed with some priestess healings, this trampling pretender had a lot of health and was doing very well trampling the enemy troops (with an army of elephants to help my pretender in the process).
It was at +/- 1000 kills in the hall of fames.
It was fun to send it in the deathmatches, as he trampled all those small mages.
In one of the later deathmatches, it got very lucky, as the enemy AI mage succeeded to paralyse it somehow , but the bull got so much health and regeneration than the enemy mage finally died after 20 turns (i guess fatigue exhaustation
).
To bad pretenders couldn't win any heroic ability, it was already a monster, i wonder how it could have been with one.