Base C'tis Sacred Serpent - Hints needed

[Wish]

I tried an F9A9W9 phoenix pretendr with the serpent dancers and a lizard king prophet to divine bless them then throw around fanatacism and smites.

had the world set as per council of wyrms diffuculty... well i had world richness be normal instead of poor... vs tien chi on the nile map.

anyway a small dancer army, combined with an equal troop of poison slingers did the trick for early independant provinces and even cut into the tien chi a bit. not expensive to replace any of those that die....

but irt lacked lasting power. I ended up taking tien chi with hoardes of pale riders instead of the blessed dancers/slingers, they where formidable though.