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Thanks both of you. I rather suspected the carrion dragon wasn't the best choice for a great SC from reading the guides and the forum. I think I'll stick with the carrion dragon despite his many flaws. I particularly like thematic empire building. For me its like writing my own story or D&D module.
My fave was a killer squad of ice druids all sporting frost brands, rime frost armor(?) and crystal shields. Horribly inefficient, but they made me insanely happy. LOL its what happens when your addicted to reading nearly a 100 books of fantasy a year.

I plan on making fever fetish's, alot. Is the inherent regen of most of Pans units enough to deal with the disease, or would the N4 regen help with that. Will go with the D4N4, Turmoil 3, Sloth 1, Heat 1, Growth 3, Luck 3, Magic 3. I mostly plan on using the resultant Maenad masses for patrolling overtaxed realms. I also tend to buy the more expensive beefier units that last longer. I have an ingrained aversion to actually using chaff until i can at least buff them to have a SLIGHT chance of survival. Early expansion will be the dragon and mercenaries if possible for Turn 1-4 or so and then i should have enough minotaurs bought to get another tough party out and working.

PS. Did they improve the carrion dagon in CBM?