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Well, there certainly is a lot of logic in that. Yet their is a fault as well in assuming that there is a true line between thug an SC. A SC in reality is just a significantly better thug, and so the threat of losing your precious investment is still their. An avoidance of mid-tier units only perpetuates the idea that a SC is somehow different.

I will grant you that thugging has a cost and to use thugs that cost gems on top of the gear cost would be less then favorable.

Personally, I tend to neither use thugs or super combatants. Armies and boosted mages are my bread and butter. I just wanted to juxtapose a thread against the Seraph discussion. I think it's the second one we've had in a month to be honest. Maybe it's the same thread revisited though.