[Jiggymike]

I should add that in my most complete SP game ever, I tried to use my 10D Prince of Death as a SC without really gearing him up very well. He ended up dying a bunch of times and I had to keep wasting time calling him back. Eventually, when he had four afflictions that made him a useless combatant, I threw him in a lab for research and summoning. He was basically able to create undead armies on his own as well as to cause destruction in enemy provinces in the late game with leprosy and Ghost Riders, when all I really thought he'd be doing was scaring enemies away as a combatant with fear. Just saying that a gimped Pretender CAN still be a lot of fun, maybe just not in the way you pictured.