Guide to Marverni

[st.patrik]

Originally Posted by fantasma

Marverni lacks thugs (except golems).
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ad Boars: I like the great boar, but it is too late in research and summons only 10% / candle iron boars. That is not too impressive. But the greatest weakness is two misc slots only. I wish it had a head slot at least, but that idea got stamped in another thread ...

Just a detail, but I think the Great Boar can make a great thug.
Equip him a Ring of Regeneration and bring along a Stargazer to cast Body Ethereal and Luck, and you will have a regenerating size 5 trampler that will only hit by 1/8 of hits from mundane weapons. That's not even counting a bless. If you add in a Nature bless you get about 20% regen + berserk (for example).

I think that counts as a pretty decent thug.

[rdonj]

I almost don't know that I like trampling thugs. They can do a lot of damage quickly but it's much easier to bring them down because they're good at getting surrounded. Granted, being lucky and ethereal helps quite a bit with that.