What to do when they come calling for you (anti thug/SC strategies)

[RadicalTurnip]

Originally Posted by Wrana

By the way, if you got a lot of normal troops, plus skellyspam for good measure, you can just stop a real SC with them. If he attacks and isn't able to rout you in 30 iirc turns, he autorouts. If you are able to take his retreat route by raiding squad, you may even rid yourself of SC this way. Of course, later in the game you won't want to use such a desperate measures having access to something of the above...

It's 50 turns, but yeah, skellyspam is quite useful for this, and can be a good way to get rid of a pesky SC. And yeah, drop your own thug behind him to take out his retreat-rout, and you've just dealt with your SC, no problem.