Originally Posted by fruityjanitorAnd... you know... not a Jetstone unit....Originally Posted by DreadArchon
Seriously. Ansom is Slateley's Chief Warlord, but de facto Commander of the column only by acclamation since he's the one who put the Coalition together. His diplomatic skills are probably as important as he military ones. If he gets croaked, it's likely that it would be the other high ranking warlords present, rather then a (distant) Overlord, who chose his replacement in that role, and Jillian hardly seems well enough liked to pull it off.
In fact, Ansom's possible demise raises an interesting question of whether he can be replaced even as Slateley's Chief Warlord in the field. Parson's Klog #5 notes that "infantry units can be promoted to warlords in the capital but it takes Mucho Schmukeroo." Does the same apply to to the "Chief Warlord" position? We don't know. He doesn't know, as evidenced by his own question "What happens if you croak or capture a chief warlord?" Doing so to Ansom will undoubtedly weaken the Jetstone faction, and quite probably the coalition as well if it doesn't shatter it entirely.