Talk:A New Age: The Dominion of Middle-Earth Minecraft Server/@comment-30079501-20170206152339/@comment-26122855-20170208165752

For people that are upset commanders can't declare aid, look at it this way. Irl if you have a General that wants to declare war but the leader of the nation doesn't want to start a war, well the general doesn't have authority to declare war.

If a general coulddeclare war, or aid in this case, they're dragging their faction that their leader might not want to get into. So basically, you get one war happy general that get gets the whole country involved in a conflict, that could ultimately end up destroying the faction. When the king wants to remain neutral.

A perfect example of this was the war between the reds and mirkwood. Mirkwood asked for the aid of many nations, but not wanting to risk a doomed conflict with the dwarves, they did not aid, and instead remain neutral. Now say one of the commanders wants to aid, which was the case for a lot of facs. Well the commander declared aid without kings permission and ho dang, now your faction is about to get massacred because your commander decided to be an idiot.