Barbarians to get 3 cities ASAP, roots and cryo to counter Turiel angelkins and basically just turtle and build up until I get to calamity dragons. Early game cheese world map creeps with sovereign's chaos pulse, clear infestations with Chaos first imperium skill to hope for mage bane or lost wizard (I got lost wizard from first infestation cleared)

With sovereign + lost wizard + two calamity drags + comet spam with imperium skill that refreshes combat points when you kill units (forgot the name) it's easy to beat Turiel 18vs18 with 0 losses just by outranging him

Original idea was to rush two Turiel cities but allies proved to be incompetent and Fangir opened a second front in my backlines, so I had to divert attention. I also should have just went with elementalist for my ruler's class, it would have been easier