Help with Arco

[Unwise]

Ok, so I have managed to turn on a number of my buddies to Dom2, and their CDs arrived late Last week. We have set up the details on a small PBEM game amongst ourselves, and drew lots as to which races we would play. I drew Arcoscephale, and I have been playing quickie SP games to get myself acquainted with them.

Now, obviously my overall goal here is to leave my good friends crushed and broken in the mud, whimpering like 12-year-old girls. Yet I despair of being able to accomplish this noble feat using the feta-eating phalanxes of Arcoscephale.

In my test games (five or six of them using various pretender load-outs), I have been stomped repeatedly by the AI, though I can do well with several other races.

Oh great Dominion II gliteratti, I beseech you! Bestow upon me your Arco-related wisdom so that I might whip my buddies into submission and force them to buy me beer.