Making Sense of the Madness

[Ferengi]

Bloody Foothills, use a charges of Dim Vision wand to blind the ranged attackers, or use Attract.  Attracts limited range hurts, though, and can get you hurt.

NOTE:  All monsters with bows hit harder, and the standard "four champ archer crossfire" in the Barracks has been in every game I have entered.  You will die if you don't watch out and get caught in the crossfire without a lot of -DR or otherwise.  You cant DV champs, nor Cloak them.

I find Confuse a better choice. In Normal the monsters will not kill each other, but they probably won't try to kill anything but another confused monster. In NM, they can kill each other, meaning less for you to eliminate. Confuse range gets rather large.

Yup the arrows are a threat, give them something 'behind' them to pay attention to while you stab them in the back...or at least one of them. Another 'feature' from my 1.04 days, pick them off one at a time. So the other technique is to use obstructions to their field of fire to allow ranged attacks against 1 or 2. I predict that Ice Iron Wolves will be good mercs.