[Belcarl]

The expendable "chaff" like Shamblers and Loboguards are great for the early expansion. But the losses tend to hurt you in the long run. That's why I try to get som summons going ASAP.

R'lyehs alternative to Shamblers and loboguards, the slave infantry, is really inferior, and tend to die just as easily regardless of their higher protection. This doesnt matter underwater, because you got acess to some really good artillery in your mind blasters. Without them, you will take heavy losses though.

Some solutions are either to replace the chaff with something tougher (Sea trolls) or get some heavy artillery (Mind lords with fish amulet). Some more creative strats could be flying thugs to take out enemy commanders etc, but then it's hard to generalize because it starts to depend on what your opposition is.