[Edi]

Zooko, the idea that repelling and morale checks should be eliminated are, frankly, the ravings of an idiot, and the assertion that they are "not visible" is outright lunacy.

Without morale checks, armies would fight until everyone on one side is dead, and if you think this would not be a major change, you're on drugs. Repelling is a very important part of battlefield tactics, just put a squad of pikemen or hoplites in the front rank and see what happens when some generic troops armed with broadswords, axes or spears try to attack them. Half of the time they fail because the pikemen and hoplites get a repel attempt and use it to successfully attack them, i.e. they get an extra attack while the enemy loses his. Same applies to bigger units like SCs who use longer weapons.

Your idea about eliminating probabilistic mechanisms in favor of absolute ones from combat is equally stupid. It's less realistic, and it has similar implications as the morale check and repelling ones, it changes the whole dynamics of combat and would make it far less interesting. Taken together, these changes would ruin Dominions as it now stands, and would require a huge extra effort on part of the devs to compensate and fix what they broke (and which was working quite well, thank you).

Edi