Is black plate worth it?

[Lord_Bob]

- alas, black plate are 40% more vulnerable to low MR abuse. You need smaller number of mages to enchant them.

Is it worth it having low level astral mages spamming mind burn/paralze/soul slay?

And yes, Ulm can have Astral on it's pretender for antimagic. Unless it's very high, if I'm playing an astral race, I'm going to Magic Duel him to death. Kill his pretender! Kill him! Plus, Ulm can only have one pretender, and having the requirement of very high astral and awake or sleeping really kills the points. Summoned astral casters are going to get off Antimagic and then die. On defence. On offence, they are just going to die.

And people who don't think flails can "do killing" has never witnessed the little death machines in action. They do 14 damage twice a round. 18 damage with Strength of Giants. Each one. They hit more because they lower Defence. After Weapons of Sharpness? I know it's a very high level spell, but Ulm WANTS Constr-6 for the Lightless Laterns. So Constr-7 is one, now much cheaper, step away. With Weapons of Sharpness and Strength of Giants you have a unit that deals 18 points of AP damage twice per turn. Each and every one of them. It laughs at feeble "dual bless" troops. As well it should, for they are nothing before it's wrath.