"MoD+Retreat" defeated w/o killing caster

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JimMorrison said:
Part of my problem with this claim of killing him first, is that you like to reference fliers, but in most cases your fliers are shock troops. I can't imagine a normal scenario where they would be scripted to attack, rather than hold+attack, else they'll fly up and get slaughtered before the lines meet. If they hold, obviously they won't just dart back there and defuse the bomb, will they? That's what I'm getting at here.

Yeh, that's how you use fliers. You sacrifice them so that enemy mages end up affecting their own army with missed spells and sometimes you jack up enemy mages. If they are shock troop fliers that can stand a few turns of that, then even better.