I recently played in a tournament and played Sandeep 5 out of 6 games.
Regarding my previous question about how many academics to run, I only ran banasuva and kandara and never really felt like I needed more.
Most rounds of the tournament I based my crew on this list:
Sandeep, banasuva, kandara, wind gamin, fire gamin, carlos, soulstone miner (w. magical training) and arachnid swarm (w. diesel engine). 5ss cache
With that list I will summon 2 fire gamin turn 1 to create a fire golem. Do you guys also do this or do you start with a golem? I can see arguments for both. There is definitely a risk in trying to merge a golem instead of starting with one, 2 times this tournament my opponents managed to move or kill a gamin so that I couldn't merge them turn 1. But merging a golem does seem more efficient, you can spend more SS on other models, you can draw a few more cards from gamins focusing and the fire golem can start with more burning.
How many golems do you run? I have tried running 1 and 2, but 1 has felt the best so far.