[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Wauthan:
Missile weapons ignore defence. Crossbows also ignore protection. Never let your pretender lead the charge and place it on a flank or further back in the army placement screen.

To clarify:

All missiles ignore defense... but they do not ignore shield defense. Shields (especially defense 4 tower shields) help quite a bit against projectiles.

Crossbows halve protection... so even a protection 18 dragon will usually be hurt by crossbows.

Regeneration cuts affliction risk to 10% of normal - otherwise the risk is (damage/max HP).

All commanders, except immortals in friendly dominion or berserkers, rout if all underlings rout. So either send in a supercombattant with a strong army, or all alone, but not with a couple weak bodyguards.

-Cherry