[thejeff]

Ok, that's more reasonable than "Just bringing 5 or so of these trolls (1 W gem apiece) along with all your low MR deep ones will keep 40+ giboleths (1600 gold) occupied easily long enough for you to swim over and rip their tentacles off with the rest of your troops. Sure, your trolls will be good and paralyzed, but that won’t stop them from being continually targeted, and they take an incredible amount of mind blasts to kill."

School of Sharks seems to be the real key, not the trolls. They let the trolls get close enough to still qualify as closest after getting paralyzed. It sounds like the trolls soaked up about 2 rounds of blasting, so the closing might not even be important. I may have to play around with that scenario without the trolls. Maybe an extra Mage for more sharks instead.

In my MP EA Atlantis game, I still haven't had the chance to fight R'lyeh, but my early plan was to rely on Kings & Mages using Iron Will to boost themselves and as many tougher troops as possible. Also bringing in common uw indies with higher mr. Amber Clan tritons are 14 and Triton Knights are 12 IIRC.