i need atleast 2 hits to kill thorn mage, if they are 2, thats 4 hits already, and with 3+ squads of thiefs with 400+ in each squad i run to risk that they will attack 1 of my squad and almost kill it in first round
if i wait back and let thorn mages come closer, in next round i need to deal with atleast 1-2 squads of thiefs and thron mage/mages
my problem was that even if i focused on 1 squad of thiefs with all my units i couldnt manage to kill it in 2 rounds (10 hits), even if it was really close to dead, in next turn i had to deal with 2+ full squads of new thiefs + mages, im not even mentioning other slow units
if i debuffed all mages and thiefs, thiefs were still doing a lot of damage to golems/achrers/sorcs
i even tried with treants in front and golems behind but thiefs can still manage to run around of treants and attack my cannon fodder
on bad map without obstacles it was my main issue