maybe its just me but i dont find illithids to dangerous i had 6 steel dwarves in full copper armour and obsidian short swords not recieve a single injury from a illithid ambush consisting of 2 squads of 8 and this was only a year into my game so these guys had no skills what so ever. the only thing that bothered me was that there was and ithalid overseer liason or somthing like that and i never saw him once kinda creepy
I agree, the illithids aren't as tough as armored goblins. They have worse armor and weapons, on purpose. And their "mind control" toxin is pretty weak, dizziness only. But they have the special castes with heavy toxins and larger size. I once had a caged Outpost Mind area-blast forever inside a cage, quite a sight.
BTW, steel dwarves are superheroes, so no wonder the flayer squad was easy.
Oh.. Deon's illithids do not have any weapons allowed in the entity file. I had them use "simple" weapons earlier, daggers, maces and spears(deadly). I'll fix that and upgrade the mind control toxin to include pain (someone's messing with your mind) and a percentage chance of unconsciousness (successful control).
Lots of images of flayers:
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=active&biw=1920&bih=1047&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=%22mind+flayer%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=I have WinRAR, and I'm using Windows XP. Also, I tried downloading the ASCII version, but it's corrupted too.
Perhaps Deon was devious and used a compression setting that older (?) WinRAR can't do. Try downloading with another browser or saving to a different harddisk location, in case you got a partial download earlier.
I just downloaded and tested the 3.18 ASCII.