How do I Beat Back Rush Tactics?

[Xietor]

I tend to take a sleeping sc. That gives you points for scales, and also to add some magic to your sc. But I have never played Ulm in a mp game. If i did my pretender would be awake and size 6.

Even Sleeping, a feared sc like the gorgon can keep you from being rushed. And in Fallacy, I was quick to tell my neighbors
what my pretender was and that it could be out as early as turn 9.

Few people want to rush and fail because then they are screwed. And the threat of a sleeping sc is almost as good as an awake one if they know you are not bluffing.