[Arryn]

I think what Gandalf is observing is the employment of tactics designed to take advantage of the game's routing mechanism. As far as winning a battle, it's more efficient to try to force a rout than to attempt to outright destroy the bulk of the enemy. 20 archers may do more damage to a target unit than 30 slingers, but the 30 slingers can inflict more morale checks, thereby playing on the odds that sooner or later the unit's morale will break if you force enough morale checks. Especially since the unit's morale goes down the more hits it takes, even if the hits are otherwise ignorable scratches. Those scratches have a greater impact for routing purposes than they do for the unit's health.

It's not the death of a thousand cuts that should worry you, it's the fear of a thousand cuts. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Dagger.gif[/img]