what to do with sirrush ?

[Horst F. JENS]

playing EA Arco with CBM mod, i discovered that sirrush are only 8 Astral gems and castable by most of my Mystics (SE, conj 5).

Now the question is: what should i do with those ancient dragons ?

The sirrush are super-strong, sacred, size 6 and have decent hitpoints and 3 good attacks (all length 0).

At the moment i use them as castle defenders. Having an S4E4N4 bless, 2-3 of those beasts can block my castle entrances and eat anything in front of them. Only danger is enemy mages casting rage ore other side-switching spells on them.

I noted that in open-field combat my Sirrush get swarmed and slayed by normal infantry.

Also noted that after gift of reason a Sirrush has only 2 misc slots.

At the moment i think about bringing them to battle together with a priestess (for bless) and some other mages to cast luck, gift of flight and body etheral on them.

Any clever ideas how to use the Sirrush other than as castle defense and what to to with them after gift-of-reason ?