Protecting leaders of mindless hordes
As Ermor, I fought Rlyeh underwater, with a huge numerical advantage. I had immense armies - 500+ undead, with commensurate (20+) commanders and even a precious U4 Bishop to cast magic resistance blessings... and yet I kept being annihilated by mind blasts before my troops could get by the wall of lobotomized atlantians.
Finally I had to double-alchemize astral gems to fire, and fire to gold to recruit lots of Tritons and Triton Lords (maybe 40, but the provinces were all killed off so it took forever...), which have decent MR. The mind blasts all targetted Tritons until my longdead horsies got to his Illithids, and then I destroyed him.
In your case, anti-astral-mage spells might work - mind hunt (kill an astral mage from the strategic map) and duel (if you can get cheaper mages than his). As Pangaea, Swarm might be your best bet, since I know you have Nature mages and gems, mages often target closest when they feel threatened.
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