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Pale One Soldiers are good units, especially _underwater_. They allow MA Agartha to expand quickly against indies underwater, which is a huge advantage. The attack score of 8 is compensated by decent armor, high HP, good ST & MR, a long weapon, and of course amphibian, need not eat, siege bonus, and 100% dark vision.

I agree though that it would be better and make more thematic sense to have humans for PD.

As for no ranged troops, everyone can get shortbows, but not everyone is so hard to hurt with shortbows as MA Agarthan troops.