Pretender, awake, dormant or imprisoned?

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I agree with Boron. In Dom2 Dragons were rather 2nd-grade pretenders as they weren't the best chassis for bless-9 and neither were they flexible enough for other uses.
But yet when I played Dragons I was rather happy, you would get either a rather cheap level-6 dragon, or the same at level-9, maybe more costly than optimal pretender, but in all cases able to eat indies right from turn 2, or kill easily enemy pretender before turn 20 or so when they get fully equipped.
In Dom3 I also think they're an even more viable choice when taken Awake or maybe Dormant.