I've been toying around with Taurog (my least played Rat deity) and I tried a WarmongeRat run with him, partially based on some recent discussion in this thread. Den was flaming so I took it:
Obviously, Taurog or no Taurog, a non-Warmonger / non-Miser run would've been much easier. Still, I wanted to see if the concept is viable at all, and at least on easy difficulty it is. The DR (and resist) takes away some of the exploration requirement, and also helps strike bigger monsters. After a point popcorn was munchable without impunity. DPs are awesome to poke a boss (I had SMM so it wasn't needed, but I can imagine things would've been different under Bleaty or Aequitas). Knockback essentially doubles damage. Seems like a solid enough build, need to take it to town on some more challenging maps.
"Thinker", just without the "ache".