Slitherine

SLancaster wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:57 pm I read somewhere that there is a 3% chance to lose a general in a melee.. but I thought that was against heavy/medium inf and cav. Would it still be the case against routing skirmishers?

ray552 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 9:15 pm Wasn't Pyrrhus taken out by a roof tile dropped on him by an old woman?

Athos1660 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:08 am I must admit I am a fan of unexpected events such as the neutralisation of your (or your opponent's) General by a skirmisher, that both are realistic/historical and add spice to the battle.

rbodleyscott wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 8:17 am Generals can't be lost when pursuing routers, but I assumed this happened in the close combat that resulted in the slingers routing.

Maybe he was hit by a sling bolt, or maybe he just fell off his horse and broke his leg. Note that "fallen" generals are not necessarily dead.

Skirmishers are armed with missile weapons, so why shouldn't they kill/wound a general? Alexander and the Emperor Julian were both wounded by javelins (the latter fatally). King Richard I was fatally wounded by a crossbow bolt fired by a peasant boy. As mentioned above, Pyrrhos was killed by a roof tile thrown by an old woman. No doubt there are many other examples, those are just particular famous ones that spring to mind.

Generals should think themselves lucky we don't allow them to be lost from distant shooting.