armor vs defense stat for SC

[Rytek]

Looks like My SC has to worry about horror markings, not troops. Anyone have any experience on how many horror markings it takes to start getting the nasty ones? My SC just got horror marked 3 or 4 times last battle. Do horrors inflict more horror marks with astral claws even if they miss? Looks like I need to pump up magic resistance as well just in case I go against one with blood vengence. sigh. My poor pretender!

[Taqwus]

I believe somebody once set up a test case involving an SC running into astral mages spamming horror mark, and it took quite a while for the Eater of Gods to show up. Assuming that nobody's accelerating the process by sending/calling Horrors, and you're not using an item which does.

As for Astral Claw, IIRC it requires a hit to horror mark. But yes, MR is good -- and vital if Umor shows up with the 'save-or-die' attacks, or Kurgi with Blood Vengeance +7.