[Tifone]

Mmh personally, I wouldn't send out an awakened Wyrm with less than Dom10... that Awe synergizes well with the Fear aura, going without it seems taking big risks to me - even if I'm still a SP player now so I don't need great minmaxing.

IMHO, I think an awaken pretender can give you some nice advantage for the early expansion rate. But it is necessary (and fair difficult) to put this advantage in very good use to overcome the better scales, blesses, and late game diversity/high paths that the imprisoned have chosen.
Moreover, not many gods can go out on turn 2/3 and start taking provinces by themselves - even some of them, very good at fighting, need some gear, dunno many of the Titans come to mind, so it seems a far better idea for them just to go dormant and try to have some good construction and self-buffs researched for the end of year 1.

Ok, I said a bunch of obvious things. ^_^