Building a Better Pretender

[Thufir]

Cainehill said:
It's really the nations with sacred mages that N9 is dubious/tricky for.

That makes perfect sense. And thanks for your examples of cases where it is useful. Most of my experience both MP and SP is divided between TienChi S&A, Pythium and Abysia, all of whom have sacred mages.

Berserking regenerating Demons of the Heavenly River in S&A are one scary troop, as well.

Do you get Demons of HR in non-S&A themes? I know from experience that N9 (or anything >= N4) is awful with S&A.