[Baalz]

The minotaurs lords are not general line troops, nor really thugs. They are intended to be special purpose units to take out the real elite enemy units which will chew through your other troops, not to take on waves of heavy infantry. When you've got outfitted Neifel jarls freezing your centaurs, or Lanka mistformed thugs, or...basically most anything tough enough to shrug off the rest of your lineup is when you bring these closers in. The idea is that they've got enough protection/hps/regen to make it really hard to stop them before they get a couple hits in - which is all it takes to accomplish their purpose. If you put them in a situation where you expect them to kill dozens of guys apiece you're gonna be disappointed, but if you expect them to take out the guy that none of your other units can you'll find they shine. You can field 4 or 5 of these guys for the cost of a real kitted SC so that's roughly what enemy SCs should be looking at facing.