Pretender Cowardice?

[Gateway103]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
I think it strongly depends on whether the monsters in question spawn as yours, or as "special monsters". For instance, the Wraith Crown seems to create "special monster" skeletons, that, when slain, merely produce a "Special monsters are routing" message, and have no effect on you. Did the LotDS produce this message when his lions bought it? If so, the Lord of the Desert Sun is a much more attractive pretender chassis, since he lacks the consummate cowardice of other "accompanied by X" chassis.

Don't the Wraith Crowns just create skeletons at beginning of battle, aside from etherealness and increase undead leadership? (Launch game and check) Yes they do. Now if you mean displaying "Special monsters are routing" only after all the skeletons are slain... nope, never seem that, despite witnessing quite a few times of the Wraith Crown skeletons being wiped out, and left my Bane Lords all alone to fend for themselves (I field them solo in my SP games). Only time I have seen that message is with the Ashen Angel from Manifestion (maybe Earth Attack and Ghost Rider may yield similar things, haven't used those spells much lately).

I did notice that, on a few occasions when this happens, that my Bane Lords actually retreated (they have flying boots, so being surrounded didn't matter). Yet at other times, they kept on fighting, eventually routing the enemies. This is with 2.11 also. So I don't know what's the deal with the retreating behaviours on auto-summoned troops...

Just some observations

-Gateway103

[ May 04, 2004, 06:57: Message edited by: Gateway103 ]