Always trying to think of wild and crazy strategies, i came to the idea of what i guess i'll call the "Armageddon Pretender" strategy. Of course.. it may not work very well
Basically the idea is to take -3 in every scale, buy the cheapest castle you can, and pour all your points into magic for your Pretender. Making him/her/it so powerful he shatters alternate dimensions every time he moves.
Depending upon which Pretender you choose you can i think get at least 3 paths up to 9, more or less depending on starting costs and stats.
I assume the only nation that could have a ghost of a chance surviving under such harsh scales would be AE/SG Ermor.
So, which Pretender to pick and which magic paths to take? Is this viable? ^^