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What do leaders give units: helmet hits, flag ignoring, adjacency?
The Summary of Leader Benefits covers it; extra details are player replies.
- Commands & Colors: Ancients rulebook · Rulebook · Summary of Leader Benefits
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In close combat (not ranged), a unit attached to or adjacent to a friendly leader scores hits on leader symbols — including a lone leader's neighbours, so his effect covers all seven hexes; elephants never get this. Only a leader attached to the unit lets it ignore one flag, and this stacks with support, one flag per attack. A dead leader gives no bonuses. Adjacent leaders give the close combat benefit only when ordered that turn, per one reply.