Pans are excellent linebackers. If you have access to some indy mages with astral, you can buff them pretty close to insane efficiency. I still drool over the linebacker Pans I had in the Magellan game; had an amazon priestess with S1H1, amazon sorceress with S1A1 and a Pan acting as the masters -> the linebacker Pans got Holy Avenger, Luck, Ethereal form, ResistMagic, Astral Shield, Mistform, Shock Resistance, EarthPower, Stoneskin, Personal Regen, Elemental Fortitude and finally Reinvigoration (at which point the masters retreated off field and the linebackers went forwards to deal some pain).
It lasted for a very short while sadly, as then the Armageddons started and the amazons didn't live through them
