Some Ashen Empire Ermor questions,need some advice

[thejeff]

Note that the AI is still incompetent against AE Ermor.

You can get away with a dormant or imprisoned pretender against the AI. It's not even hard. I didn't use any weird tactics, just used my prophet to reanimate longdead horse and built lots of temples to get better units.

The main question is what to do with the points? You don't need scales and don't really benefit from a bless. Which is also why they don't really suffer from not taking a dormant/imprisoned pretender.