One map move, and what it it means
It's obvious what map move one represents in many cases, mostly troops with heavy armor. But with commanders things get much stranger. After noticing some oddities with ME Agatha commanders, I took a quick survey of other commanders with map move one, and also those with old age, and there seems to be very little pattern currently.
For instance, compare ME Man's crone of avalon with the deep seer of ME Atlantis. The crone is much older both in absolute terms and in being farther over threshold, not to mention fitting the standard archetype for old age, yet she has map move two while the deep seer has one. Human earth readers are map move one despite being far under old age threshold, and being the exact same age as attendants of the oracles with map move 2. Oracles of the ancients have 14 action points but only 1 map move. The list goes on for almost every commander with map move one.
I've attached a text file with the values of the commanders I examined, in case someone wants to look them over. No doubt some of them already have some kind of thematic explanation for the odd values, but it is difficult to imagine all of them do when taken together. So unless I'm missing something, it seems at least some commander tweaks are in order to bring some consistency. I suspect the path of making more commanders map move one would result in substantial backlash, so that only seems to leave bumping up the move value in many cases.
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