MP: Colonial Conquest - MA Ryleh - Bullock - Winner !

[LDiCesare]

Originally Posted by krpeters

Awsome! Like, what else would a mage with orders of "Stay behind troops" do?

He follows troops and does not cast spells since you didn't tell him 'Cast spells'. So if there's no archer to hide behind, he'll naturally follow the lone soldier and go hand to hand, or go hand to hand if there' noone to stay behind. For fun effect, try to script a mage with hold*2, raise skeleton, hold*2, cast and some other mage forward with stay behind troops. Look at what they do before and after the skeleton is raised.

[krpeters]

No, the default behavior for a mage with orders "Stay behind troops" is to cast spells. The only reason he didn't cast was because the Harbringer had fire immunity from his sword, so fire spells weren't going to do much.

From what I could tell, he wasn't standing behind the rearmost soldier; he was charging into the melee as best he could.

Your comment about the skeleton reminds me of something hilarious that happened once in another game. Some elephants of mine were retreating, and worked their way behind my lines. My commanders (set to stay behind troops) all ran to greet them and got flattened.