Devourer of Souls with +10 fear keeps retreating!

[Argitoth]

Jazzepi, sum1lost, he retreats well before he takes 1 point of damage.

[Jazzepi]

What's his morale?

Jazzepi

[Argitoth]

22

[Rytek]

Well, it is a unit that needs to have a commander. Just make it a commander who can beserk it.

[Argitoth]

Devourer of Souls is a commander, it has 120 leadership infact.

[Endoperez]

Rytek said:
Well, it is a unit that needs to have a commander. Just make it a commander who can beserk it.

Ammit has been made a commander in some pretty recent patch, so he can attack on his own.

[NTJedi]

I think you'll find your answer from the following questions on why the Devourer is retreating.

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How many of your units on the battlefield at the start of battle?

How many of your units remaining when the Devourer retreats?

[Argitoth]

NTJedi said:
I think you'll find your answer from the following questions on why the Devourer is retreating.

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How many of your units on the battlefield at the start of battle?

How many of your units remaining when the Devourer retreats?

None of that matters. Devourer of souls shouldn't be a chicken, he's a +10 fear unit. He should have 30 morale. He should be a virtually unbreakable unit.

[Tichy]

I think the point is that a commander auto-routs when there are no troops left. If you want to use him as a thug or SC, don't bring any non-commander troops with him.

[vfb]

No, armies and commanders auto-route when the total HP of the army and commanders is reduced below 25% of the initial total HP value.

Units summoned during the battle are not included in the calculation.

Having all the non-commander units die does not cause auto-route unless the total HP of those units (plus commander HP loss) is 75% of the initial HP total.

I'm not sure exactly what the conditions are for causing a morale check in commanders. But every turn the Devourer is taking significant damage, or is next to a fear-causing unit, that will probably cause it to make a morale check.

The Devourer is sacred, so you should try bringing along a priest to bless it if you aren't already. Blessed units get a +2 morale bonus. Personally I think the Devourer is pretty fragile, and also not exactly cheap, so it's better off fighting as part of an army. Unless you've got Kurgi, I'd send a Devourer out solo with Kurgi. You could also throw a Lycanthrope ammy on the Devourer, since you don't need it to cast spells.