Bodyguards firing missile weapons...

[Chazar]

That's strange! Then what was again the reason for prohibiting bodyguards to fire missile weapons in normal battles? I thought bodyguards where prohibited from fireing ranged weapons in order to make assassinations more likely to succeed...

[Endoperez]

I think the reason is that prohibiting them from firing is the easiest way to make sure they don't leave the commander alone to fire closest. I think the possibility to fire under Hold (like in Hold&Attack) came only in patch of DomII, and guard commander comes from the very beginning of Dom:PPP.

[Chazar]

Hmm, I think I recall some comments from the devs here in this forum about that issue more than a year ago, saying that bodyguards were not permitted to fire on purpose for balancing reasons, but I cannot find that thread anymore (I thought it started with discussing caelum's basic tactics...)....