[Gateway103]

Ah yes, your commanders automatically starts to rout when all the troops (i.e. your Draconians) either die or rout. Exceptions are if commanders are in berserk mode, has a slave collar, is an immortal pretender fighting in friendly dominion, or can't rout (e.g paralysed), and maybe a few more cases.

So the lesson is, if you are killing enemies with Super Combatants, don't tag troops around, unless you tag a lot more of them, leave some in the back to prevent auto-routing, or otherwise make sure they don't all get slaughtered/routed...

More than once did my Wyrm pretender rout when his weak retinue routs... So I know the feeling.

-Gateway103