How do you defend against an Abysian devil rush?

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Ironhawk said:
The best way to use Raptors is not to recruit them. They are trash units and your gold is better spent elswhere. Spend it instead on Seraphs and Caelian Archers. Speaking of, why werent there any archers in the battle you just mentioned??

I didn't recruit archers because they seemed pretty useless vs. the heavily armored Abysians in my test games vs. the AI. They would fire a few volleys and then get toasted in close combat.