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Originally posted by Pillin:
The explanations offered by Pillin and Aikamun make sense to me. Because let's face it...thousands of folks in the province. Even if they run away in fear a few times, they can always come back the next day and help some more. After all, it is a whole month.

I think the crucial thing you have missed here is that the unit in question isn't going to be paraylzed for a month, they are going to recover a few minutes afterwards.

Unless, of course, you assume that any given province ( including defense 0, population 0 ones ) automatically contains a number of astral magic using farmers who will proceed to cast paralyze ( and never get resisted ) every 30 rounds for the rest of the month 8)

Anyway, it's veering off topic somewhat. Does anyone think that the following is unreasonable :
If both sides are fully routed AND both sides cannot move AND they are not immobile AND the turn limit expires they should both automatically rout rather than automatically die.