Pretender Cowardice?

[DeathDaemon]

Along the same lines... when I used to make massive amounts of centaur commanders decked with items, I found that just adding a couple more non-commanders made battles much more difficult to win. It was much easier to fight with commanders alone then trying to add a squad of troops that were supposed to delay the enemy enough such that the commander losses were minimal. Sure it made cmdr losses minimal... they all leave as soon as a couple of crappy guys die! They would fight to the death if alone.

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by DeathDaemon:
Along the same lines... when I used to make massive amounts of centaur commanders decked with items, I found that just adding a couple more non-commanders made battles much more difficult to win. It was much easier to fight with commanders alone then trying to add a squad of troops that were supposed to delay the enemy enough such that the commander losses were minimal. Sure it made cmdr losses minimal... they all leave as soon as a couple of crappy guys die! They would fight to the death if alone.

My standard workarund with such situations is to have a single crippled soldier (movement 2) way in the back, with order to "hold and attack". By the time poor invalid gets to the battlefiled, it's all over.

Or just have few archers in the back, and make sure enemy will not get to them with your band of commanders.