Kandros of the Clan - How many powers of 2 do you need?

[Mardoc]

one of them the Sheaim who luckily won't have to worry about haste too much

No, they took Kandros. The other Varn is the Sidar. Who, granted, have just demonstrated to me in PBEM5 how mobile they can be even without Spiritual and Raiders

I'll look forward to seeing what you come up with. The only thing I know about how to handle raiders is essentially what Thoth did - don't build many roads, have the roads go through cities and forts that you garrison well. But maybe there's a better approach.