What am I doing wrong?

[Corinthian]

A gargoyle is usually a fine thug despite the mr. If you know how to scrip him that is.

(Hint: Control and opposition only have range 20)

Remember to give him a silver hauberk or something to protect him from arcane bolts and you are golden.

[krpeters]

Well, I was planning to use him to stomp AI hordes, so scripting him to stand in the back and wait is suboptimal. If his troops are cooperative it will work, but his archers will likely stand back and fling arrows till my gargoyle charges them and gets fried.

It looks like the undead thugs really have an advantage over earth summons against astral. Yes, astral has some painful anti-undead spells, but nothing quite so bad as control/opposition/etc.

[triqui]

Originally Posted by Corinthian

A gargoyle is usually a fine thug despite the mr. If you know how to scrip him that is.

(Hint: Control and opposition only have range 20)

Remember to give him a silver hauberk or something to protect him from arcane bolts and you are golden.

Paralyze has range 100. Just becouse your enemy is a vampire it does not means you have to use a wooden stake, when you can just use your standard bazooka.:-)

[krpeters]

Originally Posted by triqui

Paralyze has range 100. Just becouse your enemy is a vampire it does not means you have to use a wooden stake, when you can just use your standard bazooka.:-)

LOL!

OK, so let's say I pass on the Gargoyle and use a Troll King instead. With base MR of 17, plus an amulet of magic resistance pushing him to 21, how long will it take a half dozen S2 mages to fry him? Assuming AI mages with no spell focuses/etc.

I'm obsessing over the earth summons because I'm determined to get a high native protection. If you drop a Robe of Shadows on a Bane Lord he gets chewed up pretty quickly. A troll king casting Invulnrability on himself is much hardier. The only annoying thing is the 55 gem cost, that's brutal, barely compensated by the high-upkeep trolls that come with him.