Generals and outrunning their own bodyguards

[Pnakotus]

My comments all refer to early game. As others have mentioned, in mid or late game its easy to buff the *** out of leaders: at the start it isn't. Without magic, most pretenders are just prot10 hp100 losers who go down under 40-50 hvy inf. I remember the first time I used one, assuming it was like in all other fanatasy games... and my naivetiy was somewhat shattered