Yeah, one of my biggest pet peeves is "Commander so-and-so was mentally attacked and killed". Late game. Great....is that a research mage, one of my raider thugs, one of the commanders herding my armies around....? By late game where theres so much flying around and it's several days between turns I've often got 0 chance of figuring out where I'm being blasted and where I need to shore up my defenses.
