[Executor]

Seriously? You underestimate Kailasa very much. They are the best of the monkey race, well except blood monkeys.
They expand rather fast with their sacreds. They are not -ok-, they are awesome.
You can easily rush plenty of nations with Kailasa, that awe is hard to overcome early on, especially if you mix in some panic and stuff.
You only need a handfull of them to take any indie province, 5-7 of them suffice, and that's just a turns recruitment. You don't need expensive mages to lead them, you can use gurus and other crap mages that cost like 80 gold at the start. And as for priests, well heck just make some indie once. It's not like you need that many priest to bless them.

They kick ***, high HP, awe, good def, and multiple attacks.
Take an A bless if you dislike the arrow vulnerability, and they can make work a lot of bless combos.

Kailasa is the least affected by clam loss.