Talk:A Barbarian Betrothal/@comment-27263122-20171026183951/@comment-32164803-20180228015738

Killing he placeholder unit does not necessarily prevent the Roman army from arriving. However, the advantage of killing it is it will cause the Western Roman Empire to be prematurely defeated, meaning you will no longer be required to track each and every last soldier of the said player. Also, after spawning, since they are already defeated, their army will no longer roam around the map (they will only stay in the former location of Orleans Town Center, the location where they are initially triggered to gather) unless provoked. Since they are technically defeated, the AI script will no longer work on them.

The only thing that will completely prevent the huge Roman army from spawning is prematurely defeating them, plus the last enemy player to be defeated must be Orleans, and the last building to be razed from them should be their Town Center.