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Originally posted by Zen:
You just use a different commander. Though you can put them all under a CM if he has the right picks and some magic items.

Aye, CM is the only one I've come up with before, was fishing for someone else because it feels such a waste to use the most expensive mage just to haul troops around. Well, at least with right picks you can use him to cast frost bolt, fire flies, raise skeleton, resist magic, charge body, geyser, acid spells and many others, with just one unit in a single battle. Wipee... Versatility is good, but hey, some restraint.

Originally posted by Zen:
S&A is actually fun in that aspect, since there is no one single unit, outside of the immortals, that can hold your masses of almost totally useless troops

HEY, they're not useless, just... doing their best to give their pretender a good challenge. As even mr Cruise learns in the Last Samurai, there is no honour in a battle you beforehand know you're going to win. Teaches you proper attitude, does indeed.

Besides, the one immortal who actually can haul a sizeable contignent of those troops manages to disease half of your army if something goes awry with the battle orders...

Gotta love S&A, but don't know how much it helps when pitted against other nations.