Soul Gate vs. Ashen Empire & Ermor Setup

[Cheezeninja]

The biggest advantage I find that SG has over AE is that you can prophetize your starting wraith centurion on turn 1 and start taking over provinces using him and only him on turn 2. I find that against non heavy cavalry provinces he has about a 80% success ratio, and he can even take heavy cav once he gets some exp and hopefully a good HoF ability. So long as you make sure to only send him into positive dominion provinces you can do alot of early expansion with just your prophet and mass a big army that much quicker in case somebody tries to take out Ermor early, which some people do try to do.