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I've got to agree with Darkstone here, Bogarus just isn't for bless strategy. If you want to test your hand with LA bless nation, I suggest Mictlan.

EDIT: If you definitely want to use Bogarus, awake SC pretender is the way to go for early game expansion imo. You also have very good and versatile mages so it really pays off to study what they can do with reasonabl effort and it goes without saying: learn to use communions well.