[Micah]

Your scales aren't going to do much for you with such bad dominion scores, and you're looking at a strong possibility of dominion-kill, or at least a lot of resources sunk into avoiding it, with dom 3. I wouldn't go under 5, especially since it'll choke off your sacred recruitment which is probably their strongest point, especially with the huge nerf their magic took from the last patch.

I'd probably go with a w9e9 cyclops, dom 7 order 3 sloth 3 misf 3 magic 1 growth 0 cold 3...good sacred production and it abuses all of the easily abusable scales while still giving you a much-needed research boost. Magic 3 would be nice given the crappiness of Helheim's researchers, but I wouldn't go down to dom 4 for it, and dropping the order scale is asking for the misfortune to really bite you in the rear, so it's not worth the investment. Just hope for some good indies.