Guess the outcome [forum mini game proposal]

[lch]

I am under the impression that fire/attack anybody always means "the troops" first, not the commanders, and mages don't count as archers, as commanders don't count as "rearmost" unless they have some normal units around them, too. Otherwise you could always win a fight pretty quick by building some flying / cavalry squads set to "attack rearmost" that attack after a few turns, passing by the slower main army force of the enemy. I would expect that "large enemy monsters" might be an exception to that.

Maybe this is not entirely true and the units just calculate their targets by maximum possible damage they can deal, in which case tightly packed infantery are "better" units for attacking to the AI than scattered single commanders.

[PvK]

It's been a while since I've looked at Abyssian units and I didn't recognize the demonbreds as commanders. Fire Archers won't target commanders, but it will, I think, target mages, so if it was just the one mage commander...

Ok, so with those hints, I expect (not with great confidence) then that there was a big central melee where the Abyssians probably killed or ignited (via heat aura) enough of Man's fodder that Man routed after not doing much injury to Abyssia's heavy infantry, but they were too slow to chase down whoever routed on Man's side.

PvK