Jaguar Warriors and Afflictions

[GrudgeBringer]

I Know that Jaguar warriors can amd will give differet afflictions.

I have never given it much thought other than stay away from them with my Prophet ect unless I needed to fight them.

However, I just did an early turn and was thinking about it.... and realized I had no idea about how it worked.

My question is:

If there are 15 Jaguar Warrior Indies and I attcj that province with My Pretender, Heavy Inf and Archers, and leave my pretender in the back firing off Shards at them so it doesn't come in contact with the Warriors themselves, Can my Pretender get an affliction?

Or is it that the fact that it is in the battle period give him that chance to get them.

I tried to read up on it but can't find an answer and have never played or for that matter fought that Nation.

Thanks for your help as it could make a LOT of difference in the early game I would suspect.