[cleveland]

With recruitable blood mages, there should be no problem stopping the old-age problems via Boots of Youth.

Growth has always seemed like a tough sell to me: the primary benefit of growth (compound interest population increase) only really starts to pay off just toward the endgame, just in time for Black Death and Armageddon. The landscape is going to be a nuclear wasteland; get your money upfront with Order and later on with Luck.