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Originally Posted by Calahan
Pretty well known I thought that Awe is one of the best defences around against tramplers.
@ Fantomen - Ok I'll bite. How do you go about creating a mini-thug with a barb chief. Is it just a big chunk of armour and a lychan amulet to take advantage of the big berserk bonus you'd get?
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In CBM the chief has 25hp, berserk 3, 13 base attack and defence, strength 15 and cost 40 gold. Thats a pretty tough guy for the price. Now we will imagine that you have no fort or mage sites there so he´s not competing with any other units. You can easily just let the chiefs pile up until you have a dozen or so.
I see two kinds of uses. Either as an anti-sc; just give them the prefered weapons and swarm the subject. Might be what you need against sc:s with awe sometime.
Otherwise you can make them battlefield thugs with a couple(more than 2 is too expensive) items and combine with army buffs and bodyguards. I like stars of thraldom when I have them sprinkled in my regular infantry. Lycan ammys are an alternative, or shrouds if you have a bless.
The general idea is to get them for "free", using leftover gems that your nation don´t need to make them a cheap weapon and throw them out there to kill a bunch before dying. quantity over quality
It´s not a strategy in itself, but sometimes you need to scrape the bottom of the cauldron.