Bandits and Thugs?

[Stalks_death]

Hi, i just made a search and didn't find anything (obvious) about that issue.

As far as i remember the bandit and thug were in the knalgan alliance? Why were they removed?

I liked to play with outlaws as a theme, the bandit line served as melee fighter pretty well.

[zookeeper]

Thugs were removed from knalgans a long time ago. The reason most likely was that they were overpowering the faction against some others. Think how good thug is against undead (skeletons) for example.

[Stalks_death]

Ah...blast, i didn't use the dwarves so i guess that's why i never had balance problems.

Thanks for the heads up

[irrevenant]

Thugs were removed from knalgans a long time ago. The reason most likely was that they were overpowering the faction against some others. Think how good thug is against undead (skeletons) for example.

So what do you use against skeletons now?

[zookeeper]

Thugs were removed from knalgans a long time ago. The reason most likely was that they were overpowering the faction against some others. Think how good thug is against undead (skeletons) for example.

So what do you use against skeletons now?

Probably fighters and to a lesser extent footpads. I'm not a MP expert.

[Cuyo Quiz]

Thugs were removed from knalgans a long time ago. The reason most likely was that they were overpowering the faction against some others. Think how good thug is against undead (skeletons) for example.

So what do you use against skeletons now?

You packet and spam until your opponent disconnects.

[Weeksy]

skeletons you have footpads and dwarf fighters. It's not as effective, but still enough to keep skelly archers well clear at all times, and give skeletons a fair fight.

[PhilipN]

The footpad line of units are very useful against skellies as they can simply use their high defense numbers to avoid getting hit, offensively using their clubs against archers and their slings to attack regular skellies without retribution and defensively using their defense to escape most enemy blows while scoring some damage with their retaliation. I'm playing through the Northern Rebirth and have found that the Outlaw line is often more effective against skeletons than Thugs (which are available in that campaign, even though they aren't available in MP games), which don't have as good defense and cannot attack anything without retribution (except for DA's, which don't really appear in said campaign).

[JW]

Are you sure you're not playing as Undead? You seem to have necromancy mastered.

[Ken_Oh]

PhilipN: Please tell us where the heck you found this thread and why you thought it was worth replying to?

[Turuk]

I really think that the Posted date should be in big, bold font that flashes neon if the post is more than a month old. And if it is more than a year old, the submit button should move around the screen, running from your mouse.

[zookeeper]

And maybe you shouldn't reply to resurrections but instead just wait until a moderator deletes the resurrecting post. Now all we get is a locked resurrected thread. Or we could have it split, but it'd still be just as much useless forum noise.