company of heroes

[thejeff]

But if you're trying to actually get them, especially more than one, seducers/assassins with Charm/hellbind aren't a good plan. You may get one, but then he'll fight the others. You're bound to lose some in the process.

The only way to guarantee eventual success is to keep using seducers set to retreat. You'll lose a lot of succubi, but won't risk the targets. This may take awhile and a lot of blood, so may not be worthwhile.

Your best bet probably is a lot of mages with Hellbind/Charm, penetration gear and lots of bodyguards, as suggested above. It'll be tricky, due to range and script limitations, to actually target all of them.
According to the probability chart in the manual (I'd forgotten that was in there), you've got a base chance of 6% against a mr of 18, 30% against 12, without penetration bonuses or extra paths. You want a lot of tries.

[chrispedersen]

nah, I really don't think that seduction offers that much in this instance.

With 5 commmanders to seduce, cant prepare as you don't know what you're going to get.

Whereas, if you just attack spamming charm (or better, enslave) you know..

the darknight will attack rear
the archer will shoot a mage
bogus will charge forward
and the other dude will summon ghost wolves etc.

so.. you have a guy with burning hands ready for the dark mage.
a sacrificial mage diseased etc for the archer.
void eye thug for the ghost wolves..
and then have some people spamming swarm charm enslave.