Trading commanders, exploit or not?

[Maerlande]

Suiciding mages with the ankh sounds pretty hard to enforce too. How do you tell if it's planned or just a regular fight? Sickle farming is much easier to spot. At least that's how it looks to me.

I don't think trading commanders with charm or enslave should be banned. Like rdonj said it's a big pain to do and the gain is not unbalanced. Each trades a commander. Not like sickle farming which is basically free death gems.

I only just discovered the anhk trick and I've been using that idea during regular fights. If I lose a few mages during a castle assault that's not an exploit. It's just sensible use of an artifact.