What is the best pretender for Ulm?

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HoneyBadger said:
I like dormant Pretenders. You get 150 building points and only lose your first year-a year that you can spend building up your home province, building armies, researching spells, and building magic items. You aren't immediately in a big push to expand, and you can't do a whole lot that first year, even with a Pretender available, because you'd quickly overextend yourself when your nation is weakest. Another advantage is a year of contemplation about your nation, any special events, and your surrounding neighbors. Sometimes that's worth a whole lot too.

Huh, don't ever do that in MP, you'll end up totally outclassed - it's not unusual to have 8-10 provinces by the end of the first year (even with indies at 7+) !

[Ming]

Don't know what's best, but I had fun in SP using an awake N4 Mother of Earth and good scales.

Use the Pretender for site search until equipped. Then it became quite a lethal SC. The recruited units more than held its own without help due to the strong scales

[HoneyBadger]

I've yet to come across anything that was hands-down tougher, nekkid, than an Ancient Kraken, mono-a-tentaclo.
...(tentaclo-a-mono?)

[SCKnight]

Okay, so a Virtue isn't that good (unless you do it, which is what y'all are saying, right?). What Pretenders would make good choices for Ulm?