Thuggity Thug [efficient thug builds]

[MaxWilson]

Tyrant said:
When you build an SC you want the best gear you can build regardless of cost- invincibility is the goal. When you make a thug cost is a big factor- you are looking for bang for the buck, especially if you need a bunch of them.

What this says to me is that SC status is context-dependent, since toward the late game there is no way to protect any single combatant from all the nasty tricks available (though not every trick is necessarily available to every nation). For instance, there is no gear that can protect you from the Standard of the Damned (or five of them), and if you're not immune to Petrify by virtue of being made of stone, no gear will make you so. (Unless Boots of Stone/Stoneskin do, which would be a surprise but not a shock.) Therefore, an SC is only a thug when going up against someone who's reseached/constructed counters he isn't immune to.

-Max