[Baalz]

N9 is a bit of a double edged sword. Yeah, it can bone your mages, but it also increases your attack & damage (which increases your kill rate), makes you functionally immune to fear & awe (including panic/terror spam), and will carry the day in a surprising amount of cases where you'd otherwise have a complete lost. If your opponent (for example) blows his load dropping a bunch of thunder strikes which kill a large amount of your troops the handful of nearly unstoppable scattered remaining Palankashas will run forward and polish off the passed out guys. This sort of thing happens more than you'd realize, the dregs of the well blessed Lankan army are still quite formidable.