This pictures shows my current setup.

The dotted line is the direction the purge attackers would take if they weren’t killed in the blue box. Rarely, a lone demolisher manages to get through. This why the coffer is behind a door with two spear-wielding lesser thralls.

Spears, to reiterate, seem to be very useful in this setup. Maces are generally best for DPS, but in the tight brawl the corridor creates, some thralls with spears hit and stagger across the battlefield. The two door defenders attack so quickly that the demolisher rarely if ever gets to swing his ram.

This is how it looks from the purge’s direction:

The thralls are level 20 T4 thralls, some Cimmerians, some others. They have very good epic and some legendary weapons, good non-epic heavy armor and a stack of gruel. None of them got below 90% in the last runs.

Works like a charm to at least level 5, which seems to be enough to get all recipes - got the armor recipes, cauldron, archer post, rations so far.

Without gas arrows, it still works, but is a bit tedious.

The archers are not necessary and may even be detrimental, as some attackers try and manage to charge through the defenses to the archers. Got one killed that way - that’s why I fenced them in with those cool bull statues.

I did loose a thrall I had on follow as I foolishly allowed it to run outside the walls. It got cornered and killed there. Never allow that to happen - set followers on “stop” or don’t have active followers at all.

The same setup works up to level 10 on another game, but with epic armor and all Cimmerian thralls and a slightly tighter corridor. The open corners on the side of the entrance ramp, for example, are dangerous, as thralls or oneself my become cornered and killed there.

I tried two slack golems near the entrance door on my last purge, but they got killed very quickly. They might be nice to use behind, not in front of my melee guys, or possibly mixed in with them if they had gas masks. Never worked a lot with golems, but the slow effect seems very useful for purge defense.

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