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Originally Posted by Agema
Note all those thugs have unexceptional MR. Amulets of MR recommended especially for astral-heavy opponents like Arco. If you've got air boots somehow, great, your thugs can now go pretty much anywhere. A Seithkona with your thug will also make mind hunts risky.
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This is the key. Skratti are great thugs mid-game, look no further, but make sure to put their MR up - even with an amulet it is still their biggest weakness, and arco has no shortage of astral. If at all possible have antimagic cast for any significant battle, ethereal is a great idea as Agema said, and you certainly want those astral mages there to stop mind hunts.
Because they are so readily available, its better to have more with middling equipment (sword, shield, shroud, amulet) than to kit them out completely
It's normally quite easy to get a few in the HoF, so make sure to capitalise on whatever they get.
Aside from your skratti death thugs/SCs are your best bet, you have the death and nature natively so its easy. Gift of Health is tremendously useful with all your regenning giants, and because of your geriatric norna (they aren't too bad with nature and death, but still pick up an annoying number of afflictions)
Against the phoenix specifically you probably need to vary things a bit. Odds are he is elying on fire and shock for most of his damage, and you have nothing native against either.. i'd recommend the most important thing to do is kill him before he gets all his buffs up. Phoenix slots suck, he needs a good few turns of buffing. Have your skratti flying and attack first turn, it doesn't take a lot to wipe out a phoenix. Get hold of a ring of fire res to save your skratti, or just equip him really cheap, such as with flesheater and ring of the warrior.
naturally you want to lure the phoenix into you rdominion first if possible, and if you have a dominion edge over arco push as much as you can.