[cleveland]

Their temples cost 200g & they have stealthy preachers.

An alternate, albeit difficult strategy (I tried unsuccessfully to pull this off in MP, but I was a total newb then) is to fight a Dominion war.

Offense: Take a domstrength10 pretender, spam temples & cheap forts, crank out monks to stealth-preach in enemy lands.

Defense: Crank out max longbows each turn. Garrison them @ high concentration on the boarders, supported by substantial PD (i.e. 20+). When attacked, the protection/berserker-buffed PD form the offensive line, while the longbows chew up the defenders (defense gets first shot, afterall).

Rely on wind guided longbows through the midgame, then fog-warrior-ed kinghts.