Battle results that make you go huh?

[Loren]

I had some basically useless units, although one was a caster. (This guy was quite insane and quite old--not someone I could count on.)

Since I don't have the unit-killer mod installed I did it the old fashioned way--I attacked the enemy. The enemy pretender was there.

The caster decides to go with Phoenix Pyre and Fire Shield. I get whalloped, he dies and it triggers. This wipes out the rest of my force, he routs.

Thus begins a crazy dance. I keep trying to run away, his pretender keeps chasing me down. (Why he never threw a spell I don't know--another caster kept throwing thorns at me, not a single hit.) His pretender has a fair speed advantage, I never manage to get away, each time I'm intercepted and the pyre triggers again, not to mention the damage he's taking from my fire shield.

The fatigue is building up, each trigger now puts me past 100 and I recover just in time to be whacked again. Finally I resurrect too close and he gets me--but the fire shield takes him with me.

End result: A mother of monsters is dead entirely from hitting me!