SC's vs Thugs

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RonD said:

That's the theory. It assumes a minimum-level caster, base dominion, etc. Practice is somewhat different. My experience is that any one (or even two) things with 19 MR facing a squad of 5 or more Atlantis or Pythium astral mages will fall to soul slay, and probably sooner in the battle rather than later (and will probably be paralyzed to boot).

That seems to square with the theory. Assuming the above five mages aren't quickened, and have a 5% chance per casting of making it past MR, the abomination still has only ~60% odds of surviving the second round of combat, and ~46% of surviving the third.
I still consider this perfectly acceptable, since this sort of thug simply isn't meant to go up against astral mages, particularly without a friendly mage to boost its MR further.

Once again, I'd like to point out there are few alternative combat platforms for Kurgi's Gift which aren't simultaneously more expensive, more vulnerable to both magic and conventional weapons, and much more painful to lose.