[Arryn]

Originally posted by diamondspider:
I have to disagree with you here. The range of crossbows makes it VERY easy to just put them behind serveral melee unit close to the front and do MANY hits on my commanders by the 2nd round of combat.

There is no defense against this except getting high air blessings, using magic to lower the power of missile fire, or giving crazy amounts of protection to all commanders. Also, I suppose that IF I had fliers I could tell them to hit the archers and hope they selected the same unit that was targeting my commanders.

However, the MAIN issue is that the computer is CHEATING!

I agree that the real issue is that the AI cheats since humans cannot target commanders. That said ...

I haven't been having this sort of problem, even in the rare battles when the enemy has crossbow (rather than regular bow) units. Of course, since my preferred nations are Jotun or R'lyeh that may have more than a bit to do with why I haven't seen what you describe. It may be that in the AI's targetting priority scheme it looks for "closest large enemy" in preference to "enemy leader" and almost all my units are "large", so they shoot the guys in the front. Which is more than fine by me as they can take the hits (well, the guys in the back can too, and even more so as they have more HPs than common troops).

What nation were you playing as when you were being victimized by the nefarious snakes? And what sort of leaders were you having killed (their HPs, magic types/levels, etc.)?