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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB5D2CySMwA Piconye Failed Anti-Indie Malikah thug (Cavemen) 25 Gems 12.11 E22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THh22xi3jzc 5 Succeeded E27 Double Thug into PD 5.57

A Malikah heavy thug that may succeed vs light troops - but gets bonked through its invuln and plate by cavemen. A good example of a very expensive heavy thug - used against the wrong type of indie. It's tools are ill suited to cavemen (the short mace, the armor stacking)

• Malikah
• Mace of Eruption, Enchanted Shield, Blacksteel Full Plate, Dragon Helmet
• Bless - NA

26.06 Malikah thug gets caught by imps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s

• Snake Bladder Stick, Eyecatcher, Dragon Helmet, Blacksteel Plate, Burning Pearl

30.58 Malikah Thug into cavemen (FAILED) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s

• Frost Brand, Enchanted Shield, Dragon Helmet, Full Blacksteel Plate

6.14 Same malikah thug 4 items into 10 draconians (FAIL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PteYXxUZo 6.14 Same malikah thug 4 items into 10 draconians (FAIL)

Lucids Tournament R2G1 E18 Great Mother Pretender SC variant LA Xibalba 11.52 - Regeneration Bless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPH0ozazzxU

A big trampling blob of HP with 30% Regeneration. Simple, but effective, and uses thunder whip and eye shield as repel/general defensive layers (plus ethereal)

• Great Mother
• Eye Shield, Thunder Whip, Shambler Skin Hauberk
• Personal Mistform, Personal Regeneration, Temper Flesh, Flying Shield
• FLUFFED → Body Ethereal, Stoneskin → Unknown from here

Lucids Tournament R2G1 annunaki of Love and War Supercombatant - solos throne with lots of heavy cavalry 24.35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Rbdu5LErs

A solid combination of awe, assorted defences, prot stacking, regeneration and poison chips away the neighbouring units

• annunaki of Love and War → Regeneration Bless
• Snake Bladder Stick, Charcoal Shield, Dragon Helmet, Fire Plate, Astral Serpent, Ring of the Warrior
• Iron Will, Personal Ironskin, Summon Earthpower, Personal Regeneration, Temper Flesh Attack Closest
• Fluffed - Temper Armors

(FAIL) Lucids Tournament R2G1 annunaki of Love and War Supercombatant 14.47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ng7DRihuyk&t=636s

//When actually watching the replay - this fight was won by battlefield spells and Gibbors - not SC's. The SC's were dramatic on both ends (Fallen angels for Marignon + titan, vs Annumaki for Gath - but it really was the mage core (mass magic duel), plus spells that took it home - not any SC unit. //

There was also a small array of Gadol thugs with varied kitouts - but fairly standard armor + dragon helmet + 2 weapons + ring of the warrior + boots + 1 misc kits - which seem to be standard this game. Arguably Seren Army thugs did quite a lot here, with GSS. Some creative weapon choices here too - including Doom Glaive. We don't need to go into detail as we've covered similar units earlier

• annunaki of Love and War → Regeneration Bless
• Stinger, Charcoal Shield, Fire Plate, Dragon Helmet, Amulet of Antimagic, Ring of the Warrior
• Summon Earthpower, Temper Flesh, Personal Ironskin, Regeneration (rest of script unclear)
• Body Ethereal Fluffed

Demilich E3S5D5G3 5.43 (fail) - horde of skeletons lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s

A clever idea - a demilich drop into skelespam to essentially allow drops at earlier research, but it didn't get over the line. Ultimately - this seems a bit of a waste of the high paths of the demilich. Nevertheless, it is a good example of how even with lower reaserch the demilich can theoretically be a threat - as assuming the next script doesn't carry all the gems, this is just a 3 gem teleport investmnet, so the cost is low.

• Demilich
• No Items (6 gems?)
• Body Ethereal, Horde Of SkeletonsX2, Summon Earth Elemental (offscript spammed summon undead spells)

Gorgon Pretender (FAIL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SwlfzS3aSg&list=PLH9LasyqriLyjukZKNsAaPfLYQzVNSFgV&index=1 29.19

An attempt at an unconventional pretender SC, this is a neat idea - with the turn to stone acting as a defensive layer. Unfortunately it didn't work

Mekone Attempts a T3 Throne. Dies immediately in replay. Loses but doesn't die in actual game. Mistform popping doesn't help. Takes it t4 ingame, in the replays it dies both times. At best a dubious call. Gorgon dies to Lizardfolk t6 (dies in both replay and ingame) 24.36

• Gorgon → Regeneration + 5SR Bless
• No Gear
• Personal Mistform, Personal Stoneskin, Air Shield, Attack Closest

40 Gem Anti-Caveman Heavy THug

A repel thug - this layers enough defences to deal with the otherwise troublesome cavemen indies. Exact spot lost - R2G1 Lucids Tournament 2025

• Gadol (E3B2) → Regeneration Bless
• Stinger, Enchanted Shield, Dragon Helmet, Fire Plate, Ranger's Boots, Ring of the Warrior, Flask Of Holy Water, Fire in a Jar
• Summon Earthpower, Iron Will, Resist Lightning, Temper Flesh, Personal Ironskin
• FLUFFED → Body Ethereal, Enlarge, Gift of Cat Eyes

UW 40 Gem anti-PD thug 14.17 R2G1 Lucids Finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s

40 Gem UW thug to take on PD

• Gadol → Regeneration Bless
• Dragon Helmet, Boots of the messenger, ring of the warrior, Amulet of Breathing, Flask of Holy Water, Enchanted Shield, Stinger, Fire Plate
• Summon Earthpower, Temper Flesh, Personal ironskin, Iron Will

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBCLQqZi4BI

R2G1 UW Gadol 40 Gem anti-PD thug 14.17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s

Simple UW thug for PD

• Gadol → Regeneration Bless
• Dragon Helmet, Boots of the messenger, ring of the warrior, Amulet of Breathing, Flask of Holy Water, Enchanted Shield, Stinger, ??Fire Plate
• Summon Earthpower, Temper Flesh, Personal ironskin, Iron Will

Lucids Tournament R2G1 - Kohen Gadol Heavy Army Thug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBCLQqZi4BI - 9.07

Pretty straightforward heavy army thug - this unit stacks prot really high, uses regen from the bless and chews through enemy troops with its 2 weapons.

• Stinger, Flesh Eater, Dragon Helmet, Fire Plate, Ranger's Boots, Ring of the Warrior, Amulet of Antimagic
• Summon Earthpower, Temper Flesh, Personal Ironskin (et al)
• Fluffed Body Ethereal (blessed with regen), Enlarge,

Assorted Gadol Army thugs (ineffective) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ng7DRihuyk&t=636s 17.36

**Gadol Light Supercombatant (AN) 10.53 ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s

A nice variant of a Gadol Supercombatant - albeit this framework is used a lot

• Gadol → Regeneration on the bless
• Frost Brand, Duskdagger, Dragon Helmet, Armor of Meteoric Iron, Boots of the messenger, ring of the warrior
• Summon Earthpower, Divine Blessing, Temper Flesh, Personal ironskin, Iron Will
• Body Ethereal, Gift of Cats Eyes

Assorted army thugs

These were underwhelming. It's not there's anything innately wrong with them, but they didn't do the damage one would expect from a slowrecruit, incarnate bless plus 25 gems of gear and a fluffer. They were not however - failcases

12.37 - army thugs / buffs (Regen bless) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ng7DRihuyk&t=636s Gadol Heavy Thug

• Ranger's Boots, Greatsword of Sharpness, Ring of the Warrior, Dragon Helmet, Fire Plate
• Temper Flesh, Summon Earthpower, Personal Ironskin, Divine Blessing, Iron Will
• Body Ethereal Fluffed

Seren Army Thug

• Flesh Eater, Stinger, Ring of the Warrior
• Body Ethereal + Iron Will Fluffed

(CLOSE) R2g1 UW PD Thug - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Rbdu5LErs 11.21

A very expensive thug that's right on the line (ergo probably not worth it since if it dies - the cost is huge). In short - it has fatigue problems and risks getting an unlucky crit then bleeding out - but it's also fairly tanky and can survive. In the actual game it got a fairly lucky early morale rout - but in the cast it died - and given it routed the enemy after only 17/50 kills in the actual game, I'd guess dying to be fairly common outcome.

• Abba
• Stinger, Enchanted Shield, Dragon Helmet, Fire Plate, Ranger's Boots, Ring of the warrior, Amulet of water breathing
• Summon Earthpower, Personal ironskin , Temper Flesh, Personal Regeneration, Enlarge

** R2G1 UW Abba Thug anti PD UW** - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PteYXxUZo 14.03

Kills 1PD - not representative

• Abba
• Frost Brand, Vine Shield, Dragon Helmet, Shroud of the battle saint, Ring of water breathing, Ring of the warrior
• (Regen bless), Summon Earthpower, Personal Ironskin, Temper Flesh, Personal Regeneration, Enlarge, Attack Closest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ng7DRihuyk&t=636s 12.42

Seren Army Thug

• Seren
• Flesh Eater, Stinger, Ring of the warrior
• Uknown Script

— V2

• Ring of the Warrior, Greatsword of Sharpness

R2G1 Failed Malakh Thugs

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB5D2CySMwA - Piconye Failed Anti-Indie Malakh thug (Cavemen) 34 Gems inc summon 12.11 E22
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s 30.58
• Malikah thug gets caught by imps and dies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s 26.06
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PteYXxUZo 6.14 malikah thug 4 items into 10 draconians (FAIL)
• 31:00 Dies to cavement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s V2

A Malakh heavy thug that may succeed vs light troops - but gets bonked through its invuln and plate by cavemen. A good example of a very expensive heavy thug - used against the wrong type of indie. It's tools are ill suited to cavemen (the short mace, the armor stacking). Adding all failcases under 1 heading as they can't script spells. Cavemen/Imps killed them. Their defences are also thin - hence the 1 mage + imp deployment being sufficient to counter it

• V1 - dies into cavemen and Draconians
• Malakh
• Mace of Eruption, Enchanted Shield, Blacksteel Full Plate, Dragon Helmet
• Bless - NA
• —–
• V2 - Dies to draconians and cavemen
• Frost Brand, Enchanted Shield, Dragon Helmet, Blacksteel Full Plate
• V3 Dies into Imps
• Snake Bladder Stick, Eyecatcher, Dragon Helmet, Blacksteel Plate, Burning Pearl

Fallen Angel Supercombatant variant 14.46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34KAF4qG90&t=5s

A very light script on the fallen angels to make them reinvigoration supercombatants. 1/2 died in combat to friendly battlefield spells + chip damage. This is a good highlight of how the supercombatants can be both effective but ultimately insufficient. Given the amount killed and the limited effect these had - this will be chalked up as a failed supercombatant. Arguably - some more reinvigoration would have gone a long way to keep pyre going (or some shock resistance to stop self-killing with lightning)

• Fallen Angel
• V1 Horror Helmet, Armor of Meteoric Iron, Boots of flesh, Lifelong Contract, Amulet of Antimagic
• V2 Frost Brand X2, Dragon Helmet, Armor of Meteoric Iron, Boots of the messenger, Amulet of Antimagic, Heart of quickness
• Phoenix Pyre, Soul Vortex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBCLQqZi4BI 21.58

20 Gem Vanherse Army Thug

A moderately kitted vanherse with fire and frost resist that hits hard. Not dramatic, but a decent AOE tool.

• Vanherse
• Frost Brand*2, Dragon Helmet, Fire Plate
• Blessing, Personal Luck, Personal Flight - Attack (rear probably)

Fomorian King Earlygame Army Thug 25 gems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7XWhuGC3JE&list=PLH9LasyqriLyjukZKNsAaPfLYQzVNSFgV&index=6 25.00, then 55.09

//Used with troops at 25:00 to clear UW indies. In an army fight against an Unholy/Slowing/Def Panagea later on - dies horribly (ineffective vs the unholy slowing bless). Note that since then - unholy is nerfed. //

• Fomorian King → Repel bless (+5 ATK + reinvigoration)
• Spear of the Morrigan, Blacksteel Plate, Pendant of Luck, Flask of Holy Water, Chi Shoes
• BlessingX2, Holy Avenger, Attack Closest

Ungeared Baby Hierophant Thug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2btY70f3YY0 15.10

A very simple line - Pan Hierphants can raid empty PD without gear. A psuedo-thug - this still deserves a slot, especially due to stealth.

• Centaur Hierophant E1
• No Items
• Bless (rest of script unknown)

Centaur Hierophant thugs used for army / to clear trogs - Thorn Staff - Demonsthenes tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3d6X_tH8cg 1.10

//Pretty neat tech - the size from enlarge, plus the stats and damage from the thorn staff massively boost the killiness of the hierophants. //

• Centaur Hierophant → Bless = Fire Resistance, Shock Resistance_x2, Defence Skill_x4, Heroism_x2, Slowing Weapons, Unholy Weapons, Blood surge, Low light vision
• Thorn Staff - unclear what else
• Bless Enlarge Personal Ironskin Group Blur Group Barkskin (flluffed)

Bow Counterthug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRVf4ZuM7eE 9.27

A masterclass counterthug. This essentially gums up the ground with summons and the acorns units - then snipes an enemy unit with the dryad mother. This is a stealthy counterthug line set up to deal with an overgeared enemy thug - with chaff as the survival mechanism and Bow+Unholy weapons as the kill mechanism. Notably - Unholy weapons has since been nerfed, and the bow would likely be far less effective now - catching on the shield no longer proccing unless it damages through the shield. It would still probably work alright however.

• Dryad Mother → Core part of bless is UNHOLY WEAPONS
• Trueshot Longbow, Handful of Acorns
• Swarm X3, Fire