Poll: morale and routing

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Zapmeister said:
I'd like to see the rule for army routing become: Army routs when all non-commander troops are dead or routed and one commander is dead or routed.

This becomes the existing rule when there are no non-commander troops to start with and would also improve mixed battles, IMHO.

The other thing I'd like to see is forces that perform an organized retreat as a result of the retreat order, or fire and flee, going to the same adjacent province. Routing troops should still scatter to the four winds, of course.

Now that's an interesting idea. It avoids the complicated issue of morale checking for commanders, which I don't fully understand but doesn't seem to be compatible with Panther's original suggestion. It avoids the ludicrous routing of Moloch (or whoever) when the free summons (or other chaff) get killed. It even seems to avoid the slaughtering of the mages once you've lost the battle - you'd only lose one at most.

I guess the people who thought the original suggestions would make SCs even more powerful will still think so. I also guess that people who actually want their single commander to rout (without failing a morale check) when his troops have gone will not want this change. It's an interesting one to explore though (and, er, it makes a change from AoW and tanks).

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P.S. I like the orderly retreat suggestion as well.