[13lackGu4rd]

the troll king can thug, sure, but you'll never get them in large enough numbers for thugging and he's way too expensive for thugging duties Imho. he's much better as an army buffer with all those high level earth buffs that are harder for your national mages to cast, like AoG/L, WoS, etc. but with MA TC you shouldn't have a problem casting those buffs with your national mages. a celestial master as a communion master can easily get E4 or 5 just from the communion. if it's a smaller communion than just add summon earth power and even a pair of earth boots if needed. 25% of the imperial alchemists will also have E2, so same treatment(earth boots+summon earthpower)=E4, which is enough for everything except AoL.