Ah, well. I knew it could happen. What pisses me of isn't the fact that my pretender died, but that he died for no reason at all, because in my horrible stupidity I managed to forget to give him the gems to cast his master enslave.
With master enslave most of your starstpawn would have been surrounded by their own chaff and thus unable to flee the field, and the battle would have been a clearcut victory instead of the semi-draw it was now. And then Oroboros could proudly tell his colleague-failed-gods that he died in valiant defence of his people... It doesn't feel quite so good to brag about the astral shield he managed to cast before the end...