[quote=@Willy Vereb]
<Snipped quote by Rilla>That doesn't sound fair.
I can understand if there are more lax rules regarding NPC fighters but the way you worded it'd mean the enemy character does a random AoE attack and kill everyone but the other player while technically the said soldiers may have means to do something against it.


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In theory, they can - and in some ways, that's the point. Otherwise, nothing really stops people from making it, effectively a one on -insert number of NPCs/minions.- SKallagrim vs DJAtomika played this out well, but then again, Skallagrim isn't the type to nuke all the NPCs at one time without sustaining some type of damage in the process. 

In general, or at least to me, the NPCs/Minions are really different words for the same thing. Random mooks designed to be destroyed. Nothing, however, stops you from controlling the ones you have left to make some type of attack against them - and hope to the high heavens you aren't going up against someone who'll stand toe to toe with 100 minions and defeat them all in a blur that rivals that of the blur in Smallville.