Killing retreating commanders

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
Has anyone else watched a battle...noticed that a retreating commander was killed...and then found out that he/she really wasn't?

Yes it happened to me in dom1 sometimes, but only in pbem. Something to do with the different roots used by the different computers' random systems I believe. On _your_ computer this commander very nearly missed a defense check that he passed on the host computer (life is so fragile on a battlefield). Or something like that. The replay is not 100% correct. Seen that 2 or 3 times over 7/8 games...