[MaxWilson]

The standard "don't get hit" approaches still apply, except that you can't rely on Protection. You still have Defense, Awe, Vine Shields, Eye Shields, and Luck. Plus "strength in numbers," "do unto others... first," and "strategic mobility."

(Respectively, these mean: multiple cheaper thugs in the same combat instead of one expensive SC; high attack rate of your own that gives the Flambeau dude mimimal time to penetrate your Luck/Vines/etc.; and not being where the massed flambeaus are.)

-Max