Devil Review

[Cainehill]

Gandalf Parker said:
Another advantage with Pangaea for assassins is that even without a charm they speed up taking provinces ALOT! A Pan assassin tosses Maenads each turn. So you assassinate a commander then there is an attack by 3 or 4 loose maenads. It makes it easy to know when you get the Last commander, and the province is yours automatically without having to take another turn to do an attack.

Hrm. I'm watching the maenads spawned by the Lord of the Wild just now - they attack the province, and immediately rout despite being berserk. I had thought that berserkers kept fighting without any commanders, but it seems not.

This tends to make the maenads less than useful when spawned in hostile territory, since they can probably rout quicker than even leaderless troops in a province.

[Graeme Dice]

Cainehill said:
I'm watching the maenads spawned by the Lord of the Wild just now - they attack the province, and immediately rout despite being berserk.

Maenads don't start out berserk, they have to be damaged and succeed a morale check to go berserk.