Fear and Routing in Assassination attempts

[Davidious]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
It seems I can't make use of fear or fear items in assassination attempts, and I suppose this makes sense, but I am still confused.

as Norfleet points out you can still make use of Fear as it can still affect the bodyguards.

[Taqwus]

The retreat order isn't ignored yet? It should be, since it's not likely to help except in somewhat unusual cases -- an immortal deliberately retreating and dying in his dominion before he gets cursed and horror-marked, say, or to deny capture of his magical items.

[Yossar]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
That happens if a commander is explicitly ordered to retreat and gets assassinated, and tries to carry out that retreat order, which is impossible.

Oh, ok. I thought you meant the retreat command wouldn't be carried out.

[tinkthank]

RIght.

Sorry I think I was misunderstood. I meant: I had sort of thought that fear affects would do something other than make an enemy commander flee, such as make him quail or something (my idea: -2 defense, -3 attack), but I hadnt seen it have any affect at all.


Oh and I am sure we have all noticed that stealthy commanders caught patrolling behind enemy lines *will* retreat, even if doing so just means certain death (too bad actually: would like to see a percentage chance of escape in this cases), so there does seem to be a tiny inconsistancy.