Trading commanders, exploit or not?

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Originally Posted by Fantomen

I've certainly had commanders pick up two eyes of aiming, but that has been from my own dead. Very frustrating. I would consider it broken if someone met my big EA agartha army with scouts wearing EoA and turned all my oracles blind, so I hope the word is right that it won't work. The ultimate mechanic would be if commanders would pick up eyes as long as it doesn't turn them blind.

Throwing chaff units to slow armies doesn't spontanously sound broken, but I understand sombres point. The ultimate mechanic IMO would be it there was a strength treshold to it. So to slow down a big army you would need a decent bunch of kamikaze chaff relative to that size.

If not at release, I thought the two eyes thing was fixed pretty early on. Maybe it just doesn't work when picking up friendly items.

I absolutely agree with you on the second point. Slowing down the army with chaff should not be considered an exploit but if there is ever a Dominions 4 the devs should consider changing the mechanics to work more like you two are suggesting.