Larian Studios Forums Dragon Commander Dragon Commander - Beta About the size of the population pool

I love it as it is. You can end battles far sooner if your simply better than the other player. However against equal opponents battles should last long. It drives the tension in battle and the combat to look at the population slowly dwindling and prepare/maintain to be in the best position possible when the population finally dwindles to 0. As well as to make sure you dont overextend yourself. You actually have to remind yourself not to do that and can forget about the population limit early match but it will cost you the battle later on.

If you know your gonna be defeated and are in a bad position when the population nears zero you should retreat anyways regardless of population size. Larger the size just makes ti more noticeable later on in the battle.