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LA Agartha Blindfighter Army Thug

LA Agartha 5 gem Blindlord army thug

Popularized by Zan - the idea broadly was a GSS Blindlord commander in a line of regular blindfighters could add some much needed DPS to an otherwise very tanky, but prone to fatiguing out line. It also gives a small, cleanly defined, easy to buff 'ball' of troops.

• Blindlord (in a line of Blindfighters)
• Greatsword of Sharpness
• Hold Hold attack closest (hold attack on blindfighters)

Jotunheim Cheap Giant Army Thug

MA Jotunheim - Cheap Giant Army Thug / Counter-Thug - 10-15B

This works because its incredibly cheap. It only uses blood slaves, hits hard, and is on a non-mage sacred commander so can accept a bless. Weapons can be interchanged, but flesh eater is a natural fit - since this line doesn't use any gems nor many slaves

• Jotun Herse
• Flesh Eater (X1 or X2),Ring Of The Warrior
• Attack Closest

Classic Elf Counterthug/Armythug

5 Gems Gear Vanherse Thug (requires E access)

This works because the thug chassis is already hard to hit/kill, and given a Greatsword of Sharpness can cut down highly armored enemy thugs. Luck is extremely good here - essentially layering with defense to make the counterthug very hard to kill, when the GSS does the killing work. Since this is a counterthug, a lot of buffs that would otherwise be good (e.g. Shroud of Displacement) are a bit redundant here, and we want to keep the script short and punchy

As an aside, with a longer script - this unit could be used as an army thug, and with enough def on the bless, potentially a very light raider (light thug). Greatsword of Sharpness on rainbow blessed elf cavalry thugs is a classic for a reason, it's versatile, powerful, and gives the elves a much needed way to punch through armor.

• Vanherse
• Greatsword of Sharpness
• Personal Luck, Bless, Attack Closest (Only 2 scripted slots so low fatigue and attacking early interrupts enemy buff scripts by getting the first whack).

Piercer Counterthug (may need 2 on harder targets)

10-20 Gem AN bow Counterthug on any chassis

The power of this counterthug line is its simplicity. It fires an AN bolt round 1 that's going to kill a great deal of targets. If you have 2, that's 2 AN bolts. Combine that with a decent chassis (there's a lot around), and you have a solid earlygame counterthug. You can use Horse independents for mapmove, scouts for stealth or just ordinary commanders for convenience.

Note this really only works against low HP targets. The unit holding the piercer will likely die if the target ever makes it pass the buff script.

Since the unit never goes into melee, this can serve quite nicely in an anti army-thug situation if your opponents thugs are on a predictable chassis (e.g. horses). It IS a bit of a surprise tactic though - since a player (with air access) will start buffing air shield once they know these are flying around.

• Horse Tribe Chief (This chassis is quite nice because of the high mapmove so it can zip around your lands defensively). It can also use fire - Keep distance against melee thugs.
• Piercer
• Fire Closest

Blood Slave Counterthug/Armythug

MA Jotunheim - Cheap Giant Army Thug / Counter-Thug - 10-15B

This works because its incredibly cheap. It only uses blood slaves, hits hard, and is on a non-mage sacred commander so can accept a bless. Weapons can be interchanged, but flesh eater is a natural fit - since this line doesn't use any gems nor many slaves

• Jotun Herse
• Flesh Eater (X1 or X2),Ring Of The Warrior
• Attack Closest

MA Ulm Knight Thug

Ulm Barebones Black Lord Army Thug (1 Gem with hammers!!)

This is a barebones, no nonsense army thug (or counterthug). Other nations can do similar things, or use indie heavy cavalry, but it works best on ulm due to their multiple earth gem discounts to forging - so this can cost as little as 1 gem and provides quite a lot of killing power on an armored chassis.

They get stronger when fluffed with low level earth spells (Temper Armor, Strength of Giants) and body ethereal (a classic). Obviously - they can be buffed more, but 1 weapon (typically GSS as it tends to outperform the alternatives), light buffing is the core (they can work without the buffing but it's a bit of a gimmie). Given ulm can easily buff Temper Armors Bracers of Protection are also a consideration for 1 gem at con3, as the extra 6 armor (once armors is cast) is non-trivial for survivability

• Black Lord
• Greatsword of Sharpness
• HoldX3-5. Attack Closest
• Best with a random mage fluffing Temper Armors, Strength of Giants, Body Ethereal

Vampire Lord Thug

Vampire Lord Light Thug - 96 Blood Slaves (0-10 gems)

The reason this thug is good is it's immortal (so your advantage rarely shrinks unless it gets seduced or the like), spammable at blood 8, and a flying stealthy thug that can raid distant provinces. Essentially - because its raids are 'free' due to immortality, it's all upside with very low risk - just a high initial investment.

This flies, is immortal (so is low committment), has stealth and can raid moderate amounts of PD solo even ungeared due to 25 invuln. Works well ungeared and with a single piece of armor. Also it can swap to horde of skeleton spam or melee variants on a dime which can cause counterthugs fits. Being immortal and flying means this unit can take otherwise risky lines. Boots and armor can be brought in to raid deeper and increase survivability for relatively few gems. A very powerful unit - but it's deep in research at blood 8. In dominions 5 it was exceptional at blood 7, now it competes with Three Red Seconds, so it's still good but lost some utility (the alternatives are stronger)

Also notable - this can be magic phased with Hell Ride

• Vampire Lord
• [No Gear or 5 Gem Armor]
• Soul Vortex, [Spells (Can end on Reinvigoration with 1 Slave)]

Hammer of the Mountains Counterthug

5 Gem Hammer of the Mountains Cyno/Caveman

This is an incredibly barebones counterthug. It is designed to deal with small units with the AOE stun - essentially stunlocking them until they die. It is effective against low str targets and defense stackers. This won in the arena against an objectively stronger unit through stunlocking it in Lucids Tournament Finals 2026.

• Cynocephalian Chieftain
• Hammer of the Mountains
• Attack Closest

Prot Supercombatant

Broadly - prot supercombatants tend to be vulnerable to construction items that give AN or ARP. Items like Greatsword of Sharpness early and Gate Cleaver later will rapidly kill a unit through any amount of protection. Otherwise - 1 hit kill spells like soul slay, curse and affliction chipping are generally effective. Finally if its a pretender relying on invulnerability like a Dracolich, magic weapons will kill it quickly.

Defense Thug

Web and Earth Meld tend to be the best answers at early research, albeit plain damage spells tend to do alright. The big 'strength' of these units is they do very well into a blob of ungeared troops. The solutions essentially all involve gems and magic (albeit in practice they're often tricky to counterthug).

The Overgeared Supercombatant

Curse chipping, AN/ARP weapons (to some extent), some specialized gear (like Star of Heroes) are all solid in the earlier phases of the game, Axe of Hate, Gate Cleaver are decent later on, and generally there'll always be some tricky way to counter it for less investment. Often something like skelespam to bog it down, and spamming some 1-hit kill spell is effective (even at 1% success it'll hit eventually). Without using const items, the more extreme variants of these can be hard to answer. Generally however - a small coterie of mages casting relevant spells will go a long way - as opposed to just more troops (be it chaff spam, curse, a one hit spell etc).

It should be mentioned the above answers are often finnicky at the best of times. But the reason for that is an overgeared supercombatant represents a huge committment, be it in bless, gear or otherwise. It should require a large commitment to counter - and there are often phases of the game where supercombatants are 'functionally' very hard to kill - especially without item trading. However if one of these costs say '100' gems to make - does your large counter-committment 'actually' represent 100 gems + a hellbless of value? Oftentimes the answer to that is no. In any event - in a game where a player has a 'supercombatant bless', players should at least be aware when picking research priorities to try to have at least one answer. As always - diplomacy (and item trading) is the best answer.

The Small Wight Mage

There are a few dedicated items for dealing with these. Flambeau is surprisingly good (albeit gem expensive) since it also provides an AOE that can clear any chaff. Holy Scourge is a cheaper but still passable option that requires less paths and is serviceable on a countethug.

The Ravenous Swarm is quite effective as a spell since it only targets undead. It's especially good in army fights where there are a few wights in someone's army, since it will only target them (assuming no other undead).

Otherwise - general anti-thug tricks work. These smaller wights tend not to be too hard to deal with - but have high mapmove and can be kitted out in a variety of ways - so their unpredictability and speed makes the real threat. The real 'trick' is to predict where they're going if they're solo raiding tiles, and perhaps have an item or two 'prebuilt' to shuffle onto a counterthug.

It's worth mentioning these can be kitted very lightly - or very heavily, based on both the user and paths. A counterthug may work well against a lightly geared wight mage, but one with a load of paths, gear and high research may be harder to deal with.

Mid-Lategame - Fire Death wights specifically can pose real problems due to Phoenix Pyre + Soul Vortex. The solution typically is to either kill it really fast, use Axe of Hate to kick its fatigue up so Pyre turns off, or use some fancy magic trick. The pyre vortex variants though really serve as light supercombatants so watch out!

The Demilich

So the Demilich is a monster lategame. The combination of immortality, Teleport, Innate Caster and the option to either heavy thug or cast a battlefield wipe is gamechanging. How can one deal with it? It should be noted that most answers are temporary at best (it's that powerful lategame), but below are some options

• Curse variants. Essentially - if the demilich is cursed it will accrue afflictions. They all reduce its effectiveness, but Mute isn't always removed on respawn and can stop it teleporting around. This doesn't solve the problem but it does help
• Magic phase a fort under it. If a demilich gets teleported onto a fort - it can be quite hard to get it off. Typically, a player has to use a remote attack on their own demilich and kill it (and hillariously - the demilich being tough to kill often makes it hard to kill with remotes). Even if not a permanant solution, this is a passable one (and also protects the troops that would be inside
• Banishing to the shadow realm: Infernal Prison and Claws of Kokytos are passable short tetm solutions
• Soul Slay: Although hard to pull off due to the mage volume required (and likely sacrificed) and the high MR of the demilich (plus it being somewhat predictable for an astral nation) - this kills the Demilich for good (well until they call god it back up at least)
• Sic the demilich player on someone else Not really a solution but Diplo can mean someone else suffers the demilich for a while
• Set up a dramatic line to pop the enemy capital With the capital gone - the demilich dies for good. If you can pull off some sort of one turn siege shennanigans line (very hard to do most of the time), and win the combat, the cap will be taken and the demilich will die for good. Remember, you have to 'get' to the capital through the demilich, then siege it down, then take it, all with a demilich dropping on you - so this aint easy. Nevertheless, it's an option, particularly if you have the demilich locked down for a few turns.
• A billion Horror Marks. This doesn't work due to turn sequence order. The horrors will kill the demilich 'after' magic phase (https://illwiki.com/dom5/dom6/turn-order-sequence)
• Smaller deployments and retreat orders: Short term this can work - long term the problem is the demilich keeps constraining the other player. Even if losses are small - the ability to deploy on the map and claw back are also reduced.

Bronze Colossus

This is an inanimate pretender with innate caster, lots of prot, lots of resists, and air paths so it can teleport. Earlygame, a lot of nations simply can't answer this or require extremely dedicated answers. The bronze colossus - albeit boring - has a bad habit of winning games due to wiping out stacks with ease, and being a magic phase monster

In theory it's a little vulnerable to thugs - GSS lines, Smasher's etc. In practice, it often moves via magic phase, can always embed in an army after a teleport, and usually has a sufficient kill mechanism that a few thugs won't cut it without some serious gear.

Normally, this unit will cast shockwave on spam for damage - albeit iron fists also works on hard targets. Finding the goldilocks balance of gear can be tricky - but this unit generally likes a lot of buffs. Just because it's a one man army doesn't stop you from fluffing Body Ethereal or some other multiplicative spell.

One core thing to remember - even though it has innate caster and is inanimate (low fatigue), if you give it too much encumbrance and a lengthy buff script - the fatigue can be non-trivial. Since any non armor-defeating hits are likely to do nothing - this is a real consideration.

Demilich

Demilich V1 - Battlefield Spells - 0-10 gems of gear, 3 gems to teleport, 1-2 D gems

This works because the demilich is immortal, and can use innate caster to bonk an entire army at the start of combat with some crippling battlefield wide spell. The basic idea is it teleports in, kills everything or mames everything (e.g. with disease), and either wins (fine), or dies and respawns, ready to do it all next turn, and the next turn etc. It wears Magic Penetration gear to increase the kill potential

Because the Demilich can do this time and time again, it rapidly can wear down any force not inside a fort, killing large volumes of mages and troops. It can singlehandedly make it difficult to move stacks around in the mid-lategame. Since few answers deal with it permanently (and if an opponent has answers, the user presumably takes precautions), this can be between nuisance every turn from the moment it comes online, to a game-ending stack wiping monster. This makes it the single most feared lategame pretender chassis in Dominions6

Such a build benefits from Blood4 due to the bonus 10HP, needs S3 (teleport), and at least D6 (Bone grinding). The rest of the pathing on the pretender can vary significantly based on player preference - albeit A1 is popular for Wind of Death

• Demilich
• Eye of the Void, Spell Focus
• Bone Grinding OR Wind of Death → Other Spells or recasts [also a 5x Magic Duel variant]

V2 - Phoenix Pyre Variant - 4 Gems (No Items)

This is essentially the anti-PD variant. It's an ungeared or reinvig geared variant that just keeps respawning and killing things with magic. Technically you can put the two builds together, but they have quite different functions and will often want different spells (It's not bad on wind of death to keep the spell up for longer). Of minor note - if the tile doesn't have a lab, the demilich can get 'stuck' for a turn where it has to build a lab to teleport again.

• Demilich
• No Items
• Phoenix Pyre, Soul Vortex, Other Spells (Reinvigoration can be nice, but there's a lot of options here)

Immobile Rock

Why The Early to Early-MidGame Innate Caster Giant Rock Pretender Supercombatant Works

At this phase of the game a big, inanimate, teleporting rock can be very hard to deal with. Layer on a few defensive buffs, and you have a super-combatant that can't move (ergo can't retreat) - so if it survives the combat - will rout the enemy. Of course, these big inanimate units tend to have a bunch of HP and can also just kill entire armies. However given the value of ones pretender - the safest use for these is picking off fringe parties, since dropping on someone's main army can be risky (with magic, and forged items and all). Nevertheless - it can drop on armies.

A popular meme strategy is getting some form of rock pretender awake and teleporting onto someones capital. It has its risks and problems, but if you can pull it off, it can obviously be crippling in a first war situation. Of course, this also leaves you on an awake researcher line with 'at best' an out of commission pretender for other players (or a big honking trade partner for a third party with E forging) - killing your pretender - leaving both players crippled and likely in a hellwar - in a position for said third player to swoop in). And if the monodrop fails for some reason, that's a very good way to knock one's self out of the game. As such - monodrop buids tend to be a bit of a meme

Typically this type of supercombatant has a few glaring weaknesses.

• They tend to die quickly to construction 3 E items - so they often need to take care. In higher skill lobbies, these items will be traded around in the hopes of sniping such as super-combatant so a nation's lack of E access does not prevent them from deploying these
• They tend to be very reliant on either Prot (e.g. Monolith) or a high HP pool with some defenses (e.g. Baphomet). Accordingly - they are vulnerable to high damage/arp/an, and magic weapons correspondingly.
• They tend to take some chip damage in a fight - so can't 'go forever'
• They want to teleport onto labs if possible so they can teleport to safety after
• It can be awkward getting the research needed to use these in a timely manner. They typically need Thamuturgy4 for the teleport, but their actual combat spells come from other paths. As such, they can often come online later than one might expect (since a user needs multiple researches at 2-4) where they are more vulnerable
• Come the midgame - these aren't incredibly sturdy. It's the phase before battlefield wipes - so they don't kill quickly - but after research 3-4ish, so players have some good magic, Evocation is creeping up in damage and construction items are flying around. They're still good, but as the game goes on, they become increasingly risky to use

Build 1 Mid Research Rock + Battlefield Wipe

These are often empowered. There's no requirement to start with the paths for the battlefield wipe.

This works because it combines 3 things. A big, hard to kill chassis, innate caster for quick casting, and a spell that kills everything. There are variants of this, some for cap defence (like god block and sphinx), others that can teleport (like monument), but the basic concept is the same.

• God Block
• No Gear Required (but typically a misc slot is equipped
• Foul Vapors

Build 2 Late game Idol of Sorcery Soul Drain SC

There's a few variants of this - but broadly - this uses an inanimate chassis, some battlefield wipe spell, and optionally something like Phoenix Pyre to keep the pretender alive (albeit usually they're pretty hard to kill and enemy units die fast). Innate caster making sure spells go off turn 1 is significant and The lategame battlefield wipes at research 7-8 (Winds of Death, Fire Storm, Soul Drain) are a notch better than the clouds and foul vapors at 6 (albeit vapors is very good). Essentially - with pyre access and better battlefield wipes, these become noticably more effective (and work with a more common spread of paths)

Note there isn't an idol of sorcery img on the wiki so we're using a monolith for now

Unempowered Lategame Idol of Sorcery

• Idol of Sorcery
• Eye of the Void, Amulet of Antimagic
• Soul Drain, Soul Vortex, Astral Shield, Body Ethereal, Shroud of Bewilderment

Protection Expander

Xibalba Camazots Thug

MA Xibalba - I can't believe it's not a vampire lord (Invuln Vortex Thugs)

Camazots (D2) Cheap Backline Raider/Army Thug 2-3 gems + 5-10 gems of gear

The basic idea of this thug is it's cheap (it carries 2 gems to cast invuln and vortex), flies (so it can attack rear), and has D2 for invuln/vortex. It also attacks at 0 fatigue due to Reinvigoration. It jumps in the backline after r5 and wreaks havok on mage lines. It can also be equipped with a weapon like a Greatsword of Sharpness or Flesh Eater to increase its DPS. With 1 piece of armor, this unit has low 30's prot as well as soul vortex to stay alive. There are other shennanigans (in tham Xibalba can self-buff luck), but it's essentially a much earlier (and non-immortal) vampire lord thug. It's a bit light on stats for heavy thugging or supercombatanting. Notably, you can use more than one of these at once - and the same lines work on the twiceborned chassis.

They also can swap between skelespam lines and the above, so countering them can be complex due to the different attack vectors. Stealth and flying also do a lot for hitting annoying tiles.

Finally (and hilariously), Low base HP and morale means its quite easy to rout and self-trigger morale checks, especially with say a blood slave (for reinvigoration) and a retreating fluffer. Although amusing, this isn't good and is something to be aware of

• Camazotz
• Blacksteel Plate, Flesh Eater
• Invulnerability, Gift of the Fourth Soul, Hold, Soul Vortex, Reinvigoration, Attack Rear

MA Pan Ackerbeltz thug

Pending Coinneach MacAilpein

EA Vanheim Vanjarl Paired Thug

Pair of Vanjarl Thugs - 20 Gems Total - Radier and Army Thugs (weapon interchangable)

A stock Vanjarl Thug Line. Items be shuffled around with Barding/Dream Spool, spells with Personal Flight (counterthug on atk large), displacement/Blur for Shroud of Bewilderment (shroud requires a gem and is a self buff but is considerably stronger than many alternatives), or even stack them (take care on fatigue). Weapons can be swapped out for GSS or similar when counter-thugging. The line works because putting 2 in a tile reduces harass penalties, the str boosts damage and the reinvig keeps them going. Luck is generally avoided for fatigue reasons

Broadly - in these lines - blur/displacement is best for counter-thugging, shroud is best for raiding. They come at different research paths however so the issue may be moot early.

• Vanjarl X2,
• Girdle of Might, Frost Brand,
• Caster 1: Mistform, Air Shield, HoldX3, Attack Closest
• Caster 2: Blur, Air Shield, Bless, HoldX2, Attack Closest

Ephor Fire Shield Prot Thug

Ephor Fire Shield Thug (5 gems)

This essentially is a prot thug that relies on Ench3 (Fire Shield) for damage. It works because for 5 gems - you get a very hard to kill unit with about 30 prot, not desperately high fatigue and a killing mechanism. It may be at a mathematical level better to skip temper armors for fatigue reasons. Notably - other nations like ulm have similar variants. Certain players like Monkeydew like layering this with a dormant Obfuscate bless for a very annoying raider.

• Ephor
• Blacksteel Plate
• Fire Shield, Earth Power, Personal Ironskin, Temper Armors

Ephor Fire Shield Thug BAD VARIANT(30 Gems)

This fails for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the extra prot for the most part doesn't help deal with a lot of units. Secondly - this fatigues out fast due to +4 encumbrance from the other build - and will get rapidly killed by armor defeating hits. It doesn't answer a lot more than the 5 gem variant (and certainly not a lot more than a pair of them), has fatigue problems, and is a very juicy target for a counterthug

• Ephor
• Full Blacksteel Plate, Blacksteel Helmet, Bracers of Protection, ??Mace of Eruption, Blacksteel Tower Shield
• Fire Shield, Personal Ironskin, Temper Armors, Strength of the Giants

EA Atlantis Basalt King Heavy Thug

20 Gem Basalt King Light Thug / Army Thug

Earth Fire paths and built in fear make for a good protection thug chassis. These can be chancey to use due to being Slowrec (and 'just' a prot thug so a bit vulnerable to things such as GSS), but are servicable in a lot of situations. Servicable at const3. Fluffable - and can accept a goodly number of buffs beyond what it can buff itself with (Body Ethereal is best).

The Basalt King raid into almost any volume of PD in a pinch but does best as an army thug where the fear can really put in work. Theoretically, with a good bless and unprepared opponent it can stackwipe, in practice, anti-thug units tend to deal with this quite effectively. Nevertheless, sometimes players will be caught unawares and this can stackwipe in that case - especially with another layer of defenses like regeneration on the bless.

The Basalt King can be kitted as a light thug, army thug, or heavy thug and accepts a thug bless well. Generally used as a 20+ gem heavy thug due to the high cost and 2 cap turns.

• Basalt King
• Greatsword of Sharpness Blacksteel Plate, Dragon Helm, Bracers of Protection
• Summon Earthpower, Personal Ironskin, Fire Shield, Personal Quickness, Temper Armors, Attack Closest

MA Machaka Pyre Vortex thug

Machaka Phoenix Pyre Soul Vortex Anti-Infantry Heavy Thug [25-30 Gems] (Twicebornable)

This is a straightforward Fire/Death Pyre/Vortex/Invuln Thug. It's predictable but it's very effective, with vortex providing the reinvig to keep pyre going forever. This requires Alteration 7 for Pyre

Assuming wiki is in-date https://illwiki.com/dom5/twiceborn

If you're incredibly greedy - you can cast twiceborn on these then cast transformation (or do it the other way around albeit twiceborn will cost more gems) and hope for a giant chassis. This essentially will turn it into a proper supercombatant (in both forms). When supercombatanting - you would gear more extensively.

• Black Sorcerer
• Skull Staff [Any Armor], Boots of the Messenger, Girdle of Might
• Invulnerability, Soul Vortex, Fire Shield, Phoenix Pyre

MA Naba Malikah - Multifaceted Thug

The Malikah is quite a complicated thugging unit. Naba gets access to a range of buffs - so it can have a lot of buffs painted on. It has good paths (is slowrec so is expensive), solid stats (especially in magic scales), decent HP and human encumbrance (3). It even has flying/magicphase/stealth so it can pick favorable battles and shuffle away! It's complicated because there are so many good aspects - and yet the unit struggles to balance fatigue / thugging and it's easy to go overboard, fatigue out, and die.

The basic spells it wants to selfbuff (on Naba's paths) are Shroud of Splendor, Shroud of Bewilderment - both which add additional defensive layers. Fire Shield is another obvious choice. It can add self buffs depending on paths rolled (E for Earth power being the best).

It wants a few spells fluffed. Ideally it wants a skin buff like Stoneskin, Mistform (or self-buffed), Displacement (or Blur), Bless at a minimum, Temper Armors. The best of these (Stoneskin/Mistform) are at alt 4 however and a little deeper in research than the rest of the kit.

Put all this together and you have a lot of defensive layers at around research 3-4, albeit fatigue remains in issue. Fortunately - the self buffs aren't especially fatigue heavy, but a complicating factor is the best fatigue regen items come at con5 (albeit Rangers Boots exist at con3) and naba has limited N access in any event. As such, the earth random tends to be the best one for Summon Earthpower. Even with all the defensive layers the unit will be a little vulnerable as it wants to spam Shockwave in combat, which will tend to fatigue it out. However this makes it a very killy, very hard to kill unit for not a huge gem investment. However it's a versatile enough defensive 'base' to build in quite a few different ways (and lategame as a pyre unit as well).

You can build this a few different ways - as a cheapo thug, with a weapon element (like repel), as a mage, as a heavy thug with a shield. There's no one way to do this - as the chassis can hold a lot of buffs - but the core remains, multiple layers of defense, decent stats, and not too fatigue negative.

Example Malikah Heavy Thug - 15 gems (earth random) - 1 gem carried - Research 3.

• Malikah
• Blacksteel Plate, Ranger Boots, Thunder Whip (for repel), Burning Pearl (for repel)
• Summon Earthpower, Flying Shield, Shroud of Splendor, Shroud of Bewilderment, Personal stoneskin
• Fluffed - Blur, Bless, Temper Armors

Example 2 Malikah Heavy Repel Thug (E random)

This line requires at least +2 Reinvigoration on the bless (e.g. via a Myrmecoleon scales build). It is fatigue positive, and layers BE, Defense, Repel, Awe, Shroud of Bewilderment, Prot. This layering makes it extremely difficult to kill with ordinary troops. Bonus points if you use a fluffer as it can take additonal buffs

• Malikah
• Blacksteel Plate, Burning Pearl, Dragon Helmet, Enchanted Pike Bracers of Protection
• Summon Earthpower, Blessing, Shroud of Bewilderment, Personal Stoneskin, Shroud of Splendor