I ran a 4v4 test vs Maiar on a walled map. Illuminati won easily. But it never took armor ups for jannies or hand cannons (Turkish or Teutonic ones).
As for WK support, I get it that research order is an issue, but you could just put some existing strategies on new civs. Even if they ignore battle elephants, they would still be able to beat many good AIs. Just make sure to modify your skirms counting since imperial skirms are not accounted. I simply did
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(or (unit-type-count-total skirmisher-line < X)(unit-type-count-total imperial-skirmisher < x))
, since the only case you will have something from both units is if you have converted some.
Also you could use (up-research-status XXXX != research-available) for some researches that may mess plans (such as Malay missing even second cavalry armor). If you have done some researches and the next one isnt available, you could skip it this way.