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The_Tauren13 said:
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Arryn said:
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hmmm... if you lose the battle, dont you think you deserve to lose half your mages?
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No.
Any military commander who's not brain-dead knows when a battle is lost and when to retreat to save his forces for another day. Only a fool or a madman (not that there's a difference) wastes valuable lives.
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ive heard people say many times on this forum that they dont go into battle unless they can win
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Most people don't go into a battle planning on losing. But even if they "don't go into battle unless they
can win", it doesn't mean they're 100% sure they'll win. Historically, commanders can and do gamble - balancing the loss of 100 men (or 1000) against the benefit gained if they do win.
They also go into battle because, while they're not sure they'll win, they know that the other possible battlefields and situations will be worse.
And they go into battle figuring that while they may lose, they'll inflict greater casualties on the enemy - this is especially true both of military defenses and ambushes.
An example of this in Dom2 is sending 4 or 5 spellcasters with a screening troop of 10 or 20 militia or archers in front of them. Going against, say, knights, they can expect to lose - the knights are going to tear up those screening troops, but are going to sustain heavy casualties from the mages.
This is _planned_ for by the force with the mages and militia.
And you think that they _deserve_ to lose half the mages, who are sitting all the way in the rear of the battlefield???
Nice to know the kind of superior military intellects who are in favor of demolishing, I mean,
improving, the current morale system.
