[HoneyBadger]

You can do all of those things with EA Tien Ch'i, Squirreloid. Probably better, since you have more units to order around (and they're simpler and more straightforward than Niefels), and you can learn the UI more easily, because more of it is actually useful to you.

And while you're learning that, you're not also picking up "bad habits" from a Nation that has a particularly narrow way to play successfully ("narrow" in that there's still a lot of--often confusing--options, but not many successful ones).