Wisdom on Pyrithum killing?

[Saxon]

All sound advice, which I will use in my new game. Fought for three hours Last night, holding him with some success, but then another nation fell off the graph. The next thing I knew I had three armies coming at me, all bigger than my total forces. Then he outbid me on my mercenaries, so part of what little I had left disappeared. Then he ate my Last big force. Then I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD.

I am trying again with the same map and same pretender. I now know that I should have designed him differently, but I want to win with him, as he is. My tip for the day is not to mix a rainbow with a bless effects and researcher pretender, you spread him too thin.