Yeah, fortunately they just cost 160 gold and some cheap items so they're relatively expendable. (I'm assuming) Lanka dropped a couple with seeking arrows to, but have to say I'm getting a lot of bang for the buck out of them. I'm pretty impressed with Sauromatia. That one with the 43 defense had chainmail of displacement, but I've got some others with elemental armor which have a bit less defense, but 100% immunity to everything after they cast elemental resistance and resist poison. And hey, 35 defense is really good enough...
Too bad on the MR though, even after I stick some amulets on them its still not going to be that great.