On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by AhhhFresh:
With that combo: etherealness, luck, 14+ protection, 20+ defense, regeneration... I think it might actually be numerically impossible to get afflictions from standard troops. It's at least very improbable.

Tell that to one of my friends' super Molochs with exceptional equipment who lost an arm to my crossbowmen - in melee. He swooped directly into the formation and let them suicide in melee attacks against his 16 AP fire shield, but some of them got lucky enough to hit him for a few points of damage and one of them cut off an arm.

It may be unlikely, but it does happen if you get attacked by enough troops, even if you are ethereal, lucky, and have exceptionally high defense and protection.