I may play with my slightly more powerful version of Zapath/Sombre's Necropolis (a little more protection for base troops (all still < 10 and crippled/ghost form still 0), +1 heat, citadel as the main fort with dead cities for all other built forts).
My nation will still be underpowered compared to some of the other nations here (the one with Demiurge is silly), but I come in expecting to lose
Edit: have sent pretender and mod to lch