MA Pangaea-best starting troops?

[Xietor]

MA Pangaea has good access to death gems, because your mages get the 1 death and dark knowledge only takes 1 death to use.

Typically i will build up the gorgon with death magic until she can summon bane lords. haunted forest i cast with a national mage that starts with 1 death, and give the pan an artifact to get him to 2 death.

My main theme with the gorgon is to have her cast as few of global spells as i can since she is a combat god, and accidents do happen(: Though i rarely die when just fighting the computer. I set is on difficult, and that can be challenging early on, but by mid game i typically have things so set up i can't lose and declare myself the winner.

of course, there are those games where you are stuck in the middle of the map and 4 people go to war with you early, and that can be very challenging.