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Trolls should be one of the main attackers fir ircs but they loose their value modtly for two reasons:

1) they are too slow at moving. After all they are giant humanoids, they sgould move like other orcs.
2) they are converted or disabled too easily. The lack of ranged options for orc force them to enter melee where they are aleays in the range if control spells (they have no way to kill a caster from distance) and they are always caught in spells that disable or convert their units. They definitely resisting spell resistance or you spend 8 turns to build a unit just to make a gift for your enemy

I completely agree about the spell resistance.
But not about the speed, I think trolls should be slow due to their weight.

That way they'll be very difficult to use to attack

currently i disagree on both (this can change later if i have bad exparience too - currenlty i think orcs are very strong)
use the tons of strong cheap orcs and archers to flush any enemy spellcasters and use the slower big trolls after (like you do with an elephant in AOS)

Well... usually spellcaster aren't in range and archers have a very low one and miss almost always