Strange horror behaviour (likely bug)

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alexti said:
With a standard research it's hard to make SC much before turn 10. I suppose you need at least Alt-2 or Con-2 to make a "sort of" SC. And then he'll need couple of turns to get into HoF, so the "dangerous zone" is really narrow.

Many pretenders are SCs ready to go solo on turn 2 into many types of provinces.
It's easy to enter the hall of fame early in the game... first turn select one of your starting commanders as your prophet and second turn have him bless, smite, smite, smite. Unfortunately the HoF is cursed with that horror.