Four Armed Pretenders and EA Kailasa

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Also, Kailassa is one of the nations who actually has their bless pay off even more later in the game than in the start.

Gandharvas buffed with celestial music and lead by national summoned commanders.

The summoned commanders are good mages, good priests(you complained about priests), good leaders and good combatants/raiders(access to teleport and cloud trapeze depending on unit).
I can't go over specific blesses/SCs builds ect not, but I will say that I agree with Hadrians comment about the awesomeness of Rudras.
Great magic, storm power and storm flight and 4 arms makes them great SCs.
Cloud trapeze+the previous makes them great raiders. 4 arms, flight, high attack, nice strength and cloud trapeze makes them great SC killers - hit the SC before he buffs with 4 high damage weapons or cast phoenix pyre first if he buffs several times and you are worried about dying(if you get the first strike you really should be killing most SCs and basically all thugs in the first run).