Dammit

[archaeolept]

oh thanks for bringing up my being rooked like a noob

I was just being greedy and didn't expect a flying mammoth.



and i had bought that stupid PD just w/out thinking. I would say that the "oh no, my one useless follower is dead, I must flee" is the worst example of the unthematic nature of the current rout system. or why all rout if one cheesy commander in an all commander army dies.

Now, if the pretender were to die on the battlefield, I sure could see a general rout...

[Thufir]

archaeolept said:
... didn't expect a flying mammoth.

hmmmm, that does sound like a noob mistake!

[Morkilus]

Even if you don't EXPECT the flying mammoth, you should FEAR the flying mammoth. I sure do. Right now. In RL.

On topic, can there be a mod for the routing commanders issue? Or is this so hard-coded to be impossible? It seems attractive to set the routing to be %80 or so if a commander dies on field with no troops, adjustable by relative total army strengths... isn't that how troops decide to immediately flee or not, anyway?

[Sheap]

Exempting PD from the rout calculations would probably help, but my guess is it would be difficult to implement.

I have to confess, I normally play nations where PD is either strong enough, that having it die isn't a real problem, or else so bad, that you would never recruit any for any reason So while I understand this argument, it doesn't have much visceral impact.

Maybe including rout behavior into the unit definition would be best. Unfortunately, there are 1000-some units, and they'd all need to be modified, since theoretically any unit can become a commander.

No es bueno.

[Morkilus]

I wasn't sold on the whole "SuperCommander" (or whatever it is thing) until I decided to send 10 Avalon knights, 50 archers, and 30 or so infantry against Bogus and his friends... and totally got my armored *** handed to me. Funny how he decided afterwards to hang out at Marignon's castle and keep them from doing ANYTHING at all...

Bogus is Baroken.