[DrPraetorious]

@Sombre -
Well, it *is* a competitive game and I think people are still expected to have a strategy, and to play-to-win, yeah? I just don't like seeing Vanheim screwed over.

Instead, you could let everyone take whatever pretender *chassis* they want, but require that everyone's god be at least A2B1 (where A and B are the primary and secondary team paths), and require the path scores for every pretender to be A > B > any other path. This would enable us to have a red dragon with A3 (say), but seriously discourage that because it would need to shell out even more points for B5 and N4.

Alternately, a plan that I now think is stupid: add a moderately-expensive, official-path heavy pretender based on the national signature-chassis for each nation, and require everyone to take it.

For example, we could have:
Great Warlock, B3N2S1F1, domstr 3, 175 pts
Bog Mummy, B3N2D1W1, domstr 3, 250 pts
All-father, B3N2A1D1, domstr 3, 225 pts
Gorgon, B3N3E2, domstr 3, 250 pts

And boost all the path-costs to 80.

Note that these are marginally cheaper than taking B3 on the relevant deities, and a *lot* cheaper if we were then to take B7 or B8 - which we would be organically encouraged-but-not-required to do.

You could make a similar set of 175-250 pt, 8 pick domstr 3 chassis for each of the nations in play.

But this would require a lot of modding and whining while simply requiring everyone on team X to take more-blood-on-their-god-than-any-other-path is I think more fair and easier to enforce.