Humakt requesting DI to save him/her from death

     Greetings!
     
        I've been following the thread here, and for the record, let me 
     cast my pebble in the ``it is OK to request DI to save yourself from 
     imminent destruction'' vein.  You want your soldiers (AKA initiates) 
     to have enough discipline to obey orders, but you do *not* want them 
     attempting heroics!  Using an Earthly example, always dangerous  ;-), 
     if you have soldiers attacking machine gun nests and not having enough 
     common sense to retreat when confronted with a superior foe then you 
     won't have a fighting capable force for very long.  (There are *times* 
     when you *have* to have folks do such things, e.g. it is a feint to 
     throw the enemy off from the main effort, but in general you do not 
     toss the lives of your subordinates away against hopeless causes.)
     
        From Humakt's perspective, the initiate has the potential to 
     destroy **many more** undead over the course of a lifetime than he 
     will in his last few moments of glory.  This is along the same lines 
     as the guidance in RQ III GoG that Stormbulls should not feel 
     compelled to fight a Chaos menace alone when they are obviously 
     outclassed.  There is some evidence that Humakt would tend to be more 
     sophisticated than the Storm Bull.  :-)  So, if it is OK for a Storm 
     Bull initiate to momentarily ignore a Chaos menace for the greater 
     good than it certainly seems reasonable that a Humakt follower could 
     do the same.
     
        Just my two clacks,  :-)
     
        In service,
     
        Rich

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