Less of a strategy and more of an observation:
Getting Krovos as your Spiritual advisor like "what if Zorana wanted to roleplay Elodie". Lbh'q guvax Yhxbzve jbhyq gryy gur crbcyr ibgvat sbe uvz gb fgbc gelvat gb xvyy Mbenan, that's costing him votes. (V'z zbfgyl wbxvat. Yhxbzve ybfvat ibgrf vf tbbq. Snpvat nobhg na nffnffvangvba n zbbq punatr cyhf guerr nffnffvangvbaf va gur znva ebhgr vf uneq, fb gung pbzcrafngrf n yvggyr.)
This was with Jaxor as an early fiancé - one of the only three I've had so far - and I'm liking Jaxor a lot (more than Fire, despite the fact that Fire has a portrait and Jaxor doesn't). Also it's really hard to not take Vasily as logothete of culture, with ulterior (having him as concubine) motives; the scene where he offers is lovely and so are the epilogues I've seen. I do want Zorana to have something nice.