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Author: Mauri

Aug 2nd 2013 at 8:12:05 PM

While {{Shoot the Medic First}} deals with the classes that work towards the healing and all there is the detail of this in tactical situations.

Video Game Example

* {{Ogre Battle}}: The series makes this a way to shorten the battles via creating a {{Decapitated Army}}. Useful for ending annoying scenarios but losing items you could get via annihilating units (but doing said thing deals with the Chaos Frame, or {{Karma Meter}} if you want to see it that way.)
** {{Tactics Ogre}}: Makes this trope the only way you or the enemy operates (specially in the Chaos Route Rime Battle where the Commander and a guest are in the middle of the heat and the army has to play Catch up, a really bad moment if the player has made said unit a {{Squishy Wizard}}).

Real Life

* In the last battle of "el Cid Campeador" / "el mio Cid" this was the fear of his wife as she prepped the corpse so the soldiers wouldn't lose morale by learning that their commander was down.

* This is also payed with in the historical context as by the fact of the Commander being as such had access to better armor, or heck only the one outside his honor guard to have armor depending on the historical moment, it meant they were the ones that were harder to kill off. 
** Averted in the fall of Constantinople when the king tore down the distinction that would make him identifiable and charged towards with his men making this approach impossible.