[Shangrila00]

Honestly, I never understood why Bogarus was supposed to have a poor early game. Yes, their troops are pure crap, and so they would be on the lower end for expansion rate unless they take an SC pretender, but it's pretty insane to rush them as anyone except Abyssia or maybe Pythium. With Starets, they can pull out flaming arrows and a communion to cast it on turn 9 assuming magic 1 in vanilla, combined with cheap easily massed shortbows. Unless the map is ridiculously close, I don't think even Mictlan can do enough damage before their Jaguars get annihilated by the sky raining fire.

They are better rush targets in CBM since flaming arrows get pushed back to turn 11, but it's still crazy risky.