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Straight for the Commander

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Straight for the Commander	comment	To capture the bandits, capture their leader. Usually in warfare, the commander stays back and is protected by his army, making him a rather difficult target. That being said, the army you're up against might be overwhelmingly huge, exceptionally skilled in combat, or even Nigh-Invulnerable. Thus, despite the difficulty, it might be better to try to take out the commander, in hopes of not having to fight the army itself. Especially if the commander has the ability to turn mooks more dangerous. Finding him usually isn't too hard — just look for the guy with the huge Chest of Medals, the most Bling of War or the most conspicuous uniform. He may also be the biggest. The enemy may make things even easier for you by putting its commander in the front, possibly even with a bad formation protecting him. Be warned, however, that the commander might be expecting this and may be way scarier than any of his soldiers, especially if his army uses Klingon Promotion or he is a Colonel Badass or Four-Star Badass! A Despair Gambit might be helpful in this case. Use of this strategy rests on the hope that the enemy is a Keystone Army and the commander its Achilles' Heel. When successful, it usually results in a Decapitated Army, and even if it doesn't, the confusion and delays while the enemy reestablishes the Chain of Command can result in exploitable opportunities. Sometimes, however, it results in an Evil Power Vacuum instead, which may actually make the situation worse. This doesn't only apply to armies. Whenever a species with a Hive Mind is led by a Hive Queen or some similar central location for the mind, destroying it will often lead to the whole army either shutting down or being thrown into aimless, bestial chaos. This is often effective for The Minion Master and Mook Commander. Draw Aggro is a useful way to defy this, as long as it's not the leader drawing the enemy attention. Also see Achilles' Heel. Subtrope of Flaw Exploitation. Is an Instant-Win Condition in some examples. Smart commanders may employ a Decoy Leader; a savvy army will clear away as many bandits as possible and wait for a clear and close enough path before targeting the ringleader (in which case, the Second Stratagem may be used first). Compare Shoot the Medic First, when the healer is first to get targeted, and Shoot the Mage First, when the powerful wizard gets hit first.
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Straight for the Commander / int_1133352a	comment	This is what the machines tried to do in the Terminator films, using Time Travel. First they tried to take out John Connor's mother so he wouldn't even be born. Then they sent a better Terminator to take out a teenage John Connor. Having failed to locate Connor in the third movie, they decide to go second best and kill those people who will grow up to be his officers, but gladly switch back to Connor when he turns up again.
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Straight for the Commander / int_1641fd92	comment	In Sunrider Mask of Arcadius, Kayto Shields wins the Battle of Far Port by gunning straight for the flagship of PACT admiral Veniczar Cullen, whose plan to catch the much-smaller Alliance fleet in a pincer attack left him vulnerable to a head-on assault. In a more general sense, several missions will end in a victory if you destroy the enemy commander instead of wiping out all opposition, though surviving enemy units will only yield half as much money as they would if you had destroyed them.
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Straight for the Commander / int_183290f3	comment	Tactics Ogre: Makes this trope the only way you or the enemy operates (especially 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).
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Straight for the Commander / int_2096f544	comment	Attila: Both Emperor Theodosius of the Eastern Empire and Flavius Aetius hatch together different schemes to assassinate Attila so they won't have to fight his army in the field. Theodosius' attempt fails miserably when Attila takes down his assassin's direct attempt on his life, but Aetius' more insidious plot by sending a Love-Interest Traitor after Attila ultimately ends in the death of the Hunnic King.
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Straight for the Commander / int_22d74b2e	comment	In the first Redwall novel, Constance the badger tries to end the siege of Redwall Abbey by sniping enemy commander Cluny the Scourge. It fails due to a rather accidental Decoy Leader situation. Later on, when Cluny falls in battle, the enemy army falls into disarray, and many of the invaders surrender immediately.
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Straight for the Commander / int_27efd7f7	comment	Cyrus attempts to win the decisive battle this way in Anabasis. Unfortunately, his best troops, the Greek 10000, don't join the assault, preferring a defensive fight. Cyrus leads his bodyguard and friends in attack instead — and when they are slaughtered, the Greek mercenaries get to face the entire Persian army on their own.
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Straight for the Commander / int_29f0502c	comment	In Dracula Untold, Vlad tries to invoke this and the Decapitated Army trope during the attack on the monastery, picking out Mehmed's signature golden armour. Unfortunately, Mehmed, not being stupid, had anticipated this and left a decoy — in fact, the entire army was a decoy, while a small strike-force of Janissaries sneaked into the monastery while Vlad was distracted. He even uses Vlad's tendency to this against him again, to lure him into a trap that nearly kills him.
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Straight for the Commander / int_2d6ab8e5	comment	In Cleopatra Mark Anthony attempts this in the final sea battle against Octavian. He sails his ship right at Octavian's flagship because even if he loses the battle, killing Octavian will still win him the war. It fails because Octavian is not actually on his flagship and is instead on another ship away from the fighting.
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Straight for the Commander / int_2fd4e498	comment	Sniper Elite III: Enemy officers make regular soldiers more observant. This is a stealth game, so getting the officers out of the way (ideally in a discreet manner) is a help.
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Straight for the Commander / int_30cf883b	comment	In Grent's Fall, this is attempted to ease pressure on General Cromwell. Reginald Halifax is taken out, but by then it was too late. It's also attempted by Warren Stanley. King Osbert kills him right away.
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Straight for the Commander / int_3199e98a	comment	A Practical Guide to Evil: As armies are often led by powerful Named, killing the commander can cause the flow of the entire battle to turn. This worked especially well against the Praesi Legions of Terror of old, before the Amadeus implemented reforms: since the armies were only hold together through fear for the leading Black Knight or Dread Emperor and didn't have effective command structures otherwise, killing the commander essentialy won the battle and was thus a prime goal for any hero.
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Straight for the Commander / int_35952305	comment	The Bear and the Dragon. Played straight. A Russian recon unit is shadowing the invading Chinese spearhead in the major war between the two powers, China having invaded Russia. One of the men with the Russians is a legendary sniper from World War II, whose skills are undiminished, and who refuses to be evacuated without fighting to protect his country. As the Russians prepare their counterattack against the Chinese (who have been advancing without opposition in order to lull them into a false sense of security), the unit is watching the advance team, which have stopped for some unknown reason. The only officer targets the sniper sees are lieutenants, and he considers them not worth killing, because there's so many of them. Then a command vehicle appears, and a Major and Colonel dismount. The sniper prepares to shoot the Colonel, until they notice that the command vehicle is holding a General (unbeknownst to them, the General in charge of the entire invasion force, who went to the front to show off his manhood and bravery). The captain of the recon unit asks if the sniper has ever killed a general before, to which the sniper says no, as he lines up the shot...The invasion falls apart for a variety of reasons afterwards, but the loss of the general officer (and in fact, most of the command structure between the various divisions from precision artillery and helicopter strikes) definitely contributes to the loss of coherence among the Chinese invaders.
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Straight for the Commander / int_367f632a	comment	The "Assassination" victory condition in Dawn of War: as soon as the enemy hero dies, they lose. Some A.I.s make an effort to keep their commanders alive, others... don't.
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Straight for the Commander / int_36ee2abe	comment	In one Paranoia module, The Computer anticipates this trope and arranges for a decoy. As usual, it Didn't Think This Through:
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Straight for the Commander / int_3b72d0a5	comment	In The Weaver Option, Warmaster Trevayne notes that the Sons of Horus will always start an assault with a decapitation strike. While this can be devastating if successful, the fact that he knows exactly what they're targeting makes countering them much easier.
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Straight for the Commander / int_3c2663bd	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean Online has a few enemy types that will group up under one single, commander-type enemy. Attacking any individual other than the commander will cause the commander to notice and will draw aggro from the entire group to you. Defeating the commander first, however, will prevent this, allowing you to battle each enemy one-on-one.
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Straight for the Commander / int_444f7f18	comment	At the climax of Kushiel's Dart Isidore d'Aiglemort leads his army on a cavalry charge against the Skaldi, aiming to get to Waldemar Selig and kill him. They end up in a Mutual Kill.
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Straight for the Commander / int_4508f43d	comment	The original Shogun: Total War even has a special unit of battlefield ninjas, who aren't strong in a stand-up fight, but are stealthy, allowing them to get behind the enemy lines and attack the general.
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Straight for the Commander / int_4dd54482	comment	In the Season 1 finale of Ben 10: Alien Force, the heroes, failing to stop the Highbreed invasion, end up using their portails to reach the Highbreed Supreme himself. Played with in that they don't end up killing him, but rather finding a peaceful solution to end the conflict.
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Straight for the Commander / int_4e152e8a	comment	In Fallout: New Vegas, Vulpes Inculta's backstory has him winning a victory for Caesar's Legion against a hostile tribe by charging through a hole in their defences and capturing their chieftain. Caesar is so impressed by Vulpes' cunning and tactical knowledge that he spares him from execution (the standard punishment for legion soldiers who disobey orders) and instead has him transferred to the Frumentarii, Caesar's network of spies.
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Straight for the Commander / int_5283bd72	comment	Discussed in Protector of the Small, with the differing battle philosophies of "kill the troops first because they're the ones doing the actual fighting" and "kill the officers because they're leading and thinking." Kel and Dom, themselves officers, favor this trope.
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Straight for the Commander / int_52ccafff	comment	Kingdom: The standard Modus Operandi for just about every general.
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Straight for the Commander / int_53790340	comment	Recurring both ways in the original Homeworld: the enemy, be they the Taiidan Imperial fleet, the Turanic Raiders, or the Kadeshi, goes straight for the player's Mothership, while in two battles against the Taiidan the enemy carrier, serving as flagship, must be taken out as quickly as possible to prevent it from escaping and bringing home news of your fleet's existence and thus causing the enemy to hunt you down with their full force. The final mission has a more usual take on the trope, as the Taiidan Imperial Guard will jump in multiple waves until the Imperial Mothership, carrying the Taiidan Emperor, is destroyed, causing the immediate intervention of the Galactic Council on your side and, as detailed in the following games, the breakdown of the Empire, hence why the Taiidan Rebels go straight for him as soon as they jump in. In the meantime, however, the Taiidan Emperor has telepatically knocked out your commander, making much harder for the player to command their fleet.
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Straight for the Commander / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Storm Over Ryloth": After the first attempt to break the Separatist blockade over Ryloth costs Anakin most of his fleet, his second attempt consists of sacrificing an entire (damaged and empty) cruiser to ram the Separatist command cruiser by pretending to surrender in order to lure Mar Tukk into a false sense of security and cause him to escape in an escape pod, causing the Battle Droids in charge of the fleet to be left directionless when Ahsoka arrives with the Resolute. "The Deserter": It's implied the Commando Droids who snipe Rex, thus putting him mostly out of action for the rest of the episode, choose him as a target because his Non-Uniform Uniform made his status as an officer, and thus the one in charge of the patrol, obvious. Tactical Droids in various battles throughout the Clone Wars are sought as high priority targets by the Republic, since a coordinated swarm of Battle Droids is far more dangerous than an uncoordinated horde. This also applies to its sequel series, since Governor Ames's Tactical Droid is leading the Battle Droid battalion on Desix, and its death by Crosshair's shot causes the remaining Battle Droids to be easy pickings by Commander Cody's men during the events of "The Solitary Clone".
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Straight for the Commander / int_58ffa5db	comment	In The Lost Regiment, the Merki Horde uses this during fights with other hordes. A whole umen (10,000 mounted warriors) is dedicated to seeking out and killing the enemy Qar Qarth (chief of the horde), hoping to disrupt the morale. It's specifically mentioned that, during the Battle of Orki, both the Tugars and the Merki tied their slain Qar Qarths to their horses in order to keep the warriors from finding out the truth (also, the death of a Qar Qarth must be followed by a 30-day mourning period). During the retreat of the Republic from the Merki onslaught, Keane convinces a former Merki slave, who was actually sent to kill him, to kill the Merki Qar Qarth instead with a newly-developed sniper rifle. This gives the escapees an extra month to prepare, while the Merki mourn their fallen leader. It also eventually results in the Merki Horde splitting in three, being much less of a threat after that.
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Straight for the Commander / int_5a0daa35	comment	In the Iron Kingdoms wargames (WARMACHINE and HORDES), killing the enemy warcaster or warlock is usually an Instant-Win Condition regardless of the scenario being played. The common term for this kind of victory is "Caster Kill."
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Straight for the Commander / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Standard policy in Warframe. On assassination missions, most players will avoid or blast past the Mooks to go straight for the boss. This is because the loot which Randomly Drops from the boss is invariably more desirable than what comes from even a hundred grunts, and players are impatient things.
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Straight for the Commander / int_6155364	comment	In Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, the German commanders can call for reinforcements if they're alerted to your presence; taking them out unseen is the best tactic, and without reinforcements to call in, the enemies in certain sections will also be far easier to deal with.
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Straight for the Commander / int_630755ab	comment	In the Codex Alera books, because the Vord are a Keystone Army accomplishing this is the only hope the Alerans have to win. Unfortunately for them, their commander is aware of this and refuses to show up on the battlefield unless victory is already overwhelmingly likely.
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Straight for the Commander / int_655912a5	comment	Ghost Rider 2099: In the 2019 reboot, Zero decides that D/Monix probably has several gangs and the like on their payroll, so they'll just keep sending people until he gets captured. Therefore, he decides to "cut the head off the snake" and goes straight to D/Monix's headquarters, killing his father (who ordered his execution) and everyone involved in the decision to kill him.
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Straight for the Commander / int_69bc0bf6	comment	In the original Shining Force, enemy priority 1A is Straight for the Commander as his death is an instant battle loss for the player. If he is out of reach, Shoot the Mage First or Shoot the Medic First is the second priority.
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Straight for the Commander / int_6a8aff51	comment	It's mentioned in The Stormlight Archive that a sensible army will almost always try to kill the Shardbearer first both because he's easily more dangerous than a thousand regular troops and because if you take a Shardbearer down, you can capture his Shards and turn them against the enemy. It helps that Shards obviously have to be in battle to be any use, so the Shardbearer will always be where you can send more troops at him.
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Straight for the Commander / int_6a938516	comment	Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship!: In response to an invasion by an enemy country, Hiro proposes that he fly in solo and destroy the enemy flagship before escaping, giving the army a chance to engage the enemy fleet while they're busy restablishing the chain of command. The army agrees to it since, in his own words, the worst case scenario is that they lose one stupid mercenary and they proceed with their former plan to Hold the Line. What Hiro leaves out though, is that he plans on setting off a Singing Crystal with the flagship-destroying missile, summoning crystal life-forms to sow even more chaos, giving Hiro the chance to destroy some more enemy ships for the bounty and then escape when the army gets there to mop up the leftovers.
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Straight for the Commander / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons The 1st Edition supplement Unearthed Arcana describes how, in battle, cavaliers automatically charge toward and attack enemy leaders in an attempt to gain glory by defeating them. The charge is made at full speed, regardless of army cohesion, intervening friendly troops, or any other consideration. A hive mother's telepathic control is usually the only thing keeping its enthralled beholders' hatred for each other under control. If she's killed, her minions will instantly turn on each other or disperse.
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Straight for the Commander / int_6eaf4277	comment	Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2: Has fleets, with each one containing an admiral. This ship gets special abilities, both passive and active and is capable of rallying ships to prevent them from fleeing the fight due to morale loss. With the exception of the Adeptus Astartes fleets who are immune to morale loss, destroying the enemy flagship incurs a hefty penalty to morale for them, making it easy to perform a route victory. This is ESPECIALLY prevalent with the Tyranids. As long as their synapse ship (flagship equivalent) is still alive, their morale will never break. The moment the synapse ship dies however, all Tyranids under its command will almost instantly fold and attempt to flee battle. While risky, diving straight onto a Tyranid synapse ship to kill it can end a battle very quickly.
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Straight for the Commander / int_6f2d1072	comment	Downplayed in MechWarrior Living Legends. The aptly named "Master And Commander", an Atlas assault battlemech variant is designed for the Frontline General, and therefore a prime target, as the M&C carries advanced Target Spotter gear for friendly artillery and cruise missiles, a powerful Enemy-Detecting Radar, electronic countermeasures, long-range bombardment weaponry, and some of the heaviest armor in the game. Killing an M&C Atlas will significantly cripple an enemy's informational flow and blind their artillery support, but their other combatants will be very pissed and avenge their commander.
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Straight for the Commander / int_701f0ece	comment	During his battle with the Holy Iron Chain Knights in Berserk, Guts heads straight for the leader, Farnese, instead of continuing to fight Azan, the badass among their ranks. Unfortunately for Guts, he is so messed up from his earlier clash and the entire battle with Rosine from the previous arc that Farnese, despite having no experience in battle at all (and with a little help from her subordinate Serpico), is able to subdue and capture him.
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Straight for the Commander / int_74945bfb	comment	The Crimson Shadow: Luthien has his archers target all cyclopian officers when their army besieges Caer MacDonald, as cyclopians are fairly stupid and fall apart without leadership. The officers are the few smarter ones, and so this works very well.
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Straight for the Commander / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Most Covenant Grunt squads are led by a lone Elite or Brute; killing said leader will usually cause the Grunts to temporarily panic and run away. Post-Halo 3, though, it might have the opposite effect of their Grunts going suicide bomber. Much of Halo 2's first half is spent hunting down one of the Covenant's Hierarchs, the Prophet of Regret. While his death doesn't have any direct effect on the Covenant military, it does start a chain of events which result in the Covenant falling into civil war.
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Straight for the Commander / int_7765a51b	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures has the Chief Soldiers, who lead enemy Soldiers into battle against the Links in their quest to rescue the Shrine Maidens and Zelda from Vaati and Ganon, since if they're defeated while any Soldiers are still standing, they become directionless and start to explode if not defeated fast enough.
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Straight for the Commander / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars: Going after the fleet's command ship is a viable tactic. The command ship allows more ships to be present in battle and can decide the order in which reinforcements arrive. Additionally, the reinforcements arrive straight to the command ship's location instead of the original start location.
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Straight for the Commander / int_7996534f	comment	This is discussed in War Horse:
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Straight for the Commander / int_7b83c0ea	comment	Palworld: When faced against a hostile human that uses Pals to attack, attacking him or her directly is not only viable, it's the quickest way to end the fight. Conversely, enemies will prioritize attacking you over your Pals.
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Straight for the Commander / int_7d94772d	comment	This is a viable tactic in the Uncharted Waters series: rushing for the enemy flagship and taking it out (with cannons or by boarding) is an instant-win condition, which helps preserve own forces and the cargo carried by other enemy ships (on the downside, you get less XP). In the second game, you can additionally challenge the enemy captain to a Combat by Champion by boarding his flagship with your own.
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Straight for the Commander / int_7f5e00d9	comment	Halo: The Fall of Reach: After 27 years of losing the war against the Covenant, the UNSC plans an operation to kidnap a Covenant Prophet in hopes of forcing a truce. The operation is interrupted by the Fall of Reach, but fortunately backstabbing politics within the Covenant end up killing off the Prophets for them in the actual Halo games.
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Straight for the Commander / int_864a7357	comment	Even more viable when fighting against Vampire Count armies in Total War: Warhammer, as they use large masses of undead who are fearless, tireless and can take a beating. Kill the commanders animating them, however, and the entire force will crumble to dust in the span of seconds.
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Straight for the Commander / int_86814e56	comment	This is a tactic in several battles in Final Fantasy VI, notably any battle involving switching between multiple parties to prevent an enemy advance and Cyan's defense of Doma Castle.
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Straight for the Commander / int_8894d386	comment	The Patriot (2000): This is a Discussed Trope. Col. Benjamin Martin intentionally targets British officers first in his irregular guerrilla campaigns to sow confusion among the British regulars. He discusses it with his opponent General Cornwallis during a neutral meeting, with the latter calling it uncalled for. Martin questions what would be an "acceptable" level of hostile intent during warfare, and Cornwallis' states his concern is to maintain order and prevent atrocities committed by leaderless armies. Martin refuses to change his tactic as long as other British officers like Col. Tavington engage in pointless brutalities that violate the Laws and Customs of Warfare, and Cornwallis concedes the point.
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Straight for the Commander / int_8960fd02	comment	Vinland Saga: Askeladd makes use of this tactic by having main character Thorfinn assassinate opposing commanders during battles. This tactic is a win-win scenario for Askeladd; Thorfinn lives to accomplish great feats on the battlefield to win the right to challenge Askeladd to an honorable duel, where he hopes to defeat Askeladd as revenge for Askeladd killing his father years earlier. So for Askeladd, sending Thorfinn on these nigh suicidal missions will either remove a vital part of the opposition or Thorfinn will get himself killed trying and thus no longer be Askeladd's problem. In the second arc, Thorgil realizes that Canute set up his family to become Outlaws, he utilizes this tactic against Canute and his forces. Thorgil realizes perfectly well that the force of peasant farmers and a handful of down and out mercenaries his family assembles are no match for Canute's elite personal warriors and the mighty Jomvikings, but they can act as The Bait while Thorgil sneaks around to attack Canute, who now has just a few guards defending him, at the same time. It almost works; Canute only lives due to having taking multiple levels in badass since the first arc, and Canute buys just enough time for his other men to come to his aid.
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Straight for the Commander / int_8d81bc90	comment	Dicussed and then played straight (for laughs) in the MAS*H episode "The General Flipped At Dawn". General Steele decides the 4077th has to move — not for any practical reason, but because "the "M" stands for "Mobile", and mobile you shall be." While scouting out new locations with Burns and Blake, Steele demands a salute in open country. Blake and, in one of his only instances of being allowed to be the Only Sane Man, Burns, advise strongly against it, mentioning that the snipers can use that to figure out the chain of command. Steele brushes their concerns off, orders a salute, and sure enough, cue snipers. As Blake and Burns are scrambling to get into the jeep under as much cover as possible, Steele nonchalantly hops in singing "I Love a Parade".
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Straight for the Commander / int_90e2f673	comment	This is such a common tactic in BattleTech that it has a specific name - Head-Hunting. While the prevalance of the Frontline General makes it easier in smaller-unit battles, there were specific 'Mech and Powered Armor designs aimed at slipping behind enemy lines and destroying command centers and mobile headquarters to throw enemy armies into disarray. The fallout of this trope is directly responsible for the ascension of Hanse Davion to the throne of the Federated Suns. His older brother, First Prince Ian Davion, directly led a counter-attack during the Third Battle of Mallory's World, but in spite of being an excellent Mechwarrior and piloting an Atlas besides, he was identified and killed in single combat by Yorinaga Kurita. Ironically, House Kurita won the battle but ultimately lost the war. The news of the Prince's death on Mallory's World almost turned the campaign into a rout, but Hanse Davion revealed himself to be a far more clever and capable leader than his late brother, and managed to keep his realm steady against the subsequent Kuritan threat for decades. This is also standard operating policy for the Clans — not because it's sound battlefield doctrine, but because defeating high-ranked enemy officers is bound to win them more honor among their peers. An accidental case lead to the Kentares Massacre and Draconis Combine losing the First Succession War. Coordinator Minoru was overseeing the campaign on Kentares but was wearing a standard DCMS Colonel's uniform. Latha Pischel, a Davion Sharpshooter saw a Colonel out in the open and took the shot, not realizing who he had just killed. The Coordinator's son was already mad and went even madder with grief and ordered the entire Planet massacred by hand. Over 50 million people were killed either by katana or small arms. Comstar personnel on the ground broke their organizations rules for neutrality and smuggled out video of the mass executions, resulting in massive demoralization for the DMCS, and provoking Davion from wavering and ready to break to a highly motivated force who refused to let that happen to the rest of the Federated Suns. There are also certain 'mech designs that specialize in command and control, such as the Cyclops and the Loki. Because they have advanced control systems (called C3), they make everyone else in the lance or star fight better. As such, they are usually piloted by commanders in one form or another, and usually considered priority targets. The Cyclops is an Assault 'mech with a hefty helping of armor to keep it alive, more than most other Assault 'mechs in the same weight class (at the expense of damage output), but the Loki is woefully underarmored for a Heavy 'mech (though very heavily armed).
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Straight for the Commander / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: In the Last Battle, Graendal almost single-handedly stymies the armies of the Light this way. Rather than kill the commanders, she infiltrates their dreams beforehand and affects them with subtle Compulsions to misuse their troops in small ways that would add up to disaster. The good guys also try this, with various heroes attempting to kill Demandred and decapitate the Shadow's army. Because Demandred is one of the greatest warriors and channelers to ever live, this doesn't work out so well. Lan finally manages it, at great cost.
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Straight for the Commander / int_90f94684	comment	In Fire Emblem Engage, during the Fell Xenologue campaign, Chapter 3 has Alear, along with the twins Nel and Nil and the Four Winds encounter the armies of the alternate Elusia and Solm, headed by their respective queens, fighting. Nel, who's used to employing stealth and running from fights she can't win, proposes using the chaos of battle to attack the enemy queens and reclaim their Emblem bracelets, since both forces are numerically superior to the heroes by themselves.
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Straight for the Commander / int_9746a351	comment	Happens twice in The War of the Ancients trilogy (set in the World of Warcraft verse). Lord Kur'talos Ravencrest leads the forces of La RÃ©sistance against the Burning Legion 10,000 years before the events of the game. During a battle, however, an assassin sent by Queen Azshara's Number Two manages to get close and stab Ravencrest in the back of the neck. Command passes to the incompetent Lord Desdel Stareye, who gets killed in battle through his own stupidity. Command finally passes to a commoner named Jarod Shadowsong, who proves himself to be an excellent commander, ultimately leading La RÃ©sistance to victory, and earns the respect of the noble-born.
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Straight for the Commander / int_984982f6	comment	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 (especially 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).
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Straight for the Commander / int_9d47a2a2	comment	In A Song of Ice and Fire, a lot of battle strategies among the warring claimants to the throne involve capturing or killing important commanders on the other side(s) as well as taking a side "out of the race" by killing their leader. Near the end of the Battle in the Whispering Wood, Jaime Lannister, realizing his army has lost, rallies his strongest soldiers and charges towards Robb Stark in an attempt to bring the war to an end.
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Straight for the Commander / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: In the Alabasta Arc, specifically in the Alabasta civil war, our heroes have deemed that the situation is too far gone to be resolved by purely peaceful means. Luffy deduces that there's only one other way to solve the conflict: Beat Crocodile, the guy behind it all. His crew was initially surprised about Luffy's plan but it works in the end. This is often Luffy's strategy: Rush in first to find the one behind the conflict and/or the strongest person on the enemy side and then beat them up. This often conflicts with the rest of the crew's plans, even when they try to account for it. During the Marineford War, Kizaru determined that the best way to keep the casualties low was to take out Whitebeard early on. However, his attack is blocked by Marco. This is the modus operandi for Capone "Gang" Bege. He only targets the leaders of enemy factions and afterwards sits back and watches as the remaining forces fight amongst themselves for control. In the Whole Cake Island arc, he's planning an assassination attempt on his boss, the pirate emperor Big Mom. Momonosuke and the Nine Red Scabbards quickly realize that, even though on paper Orochi is the one holding Kaido's leash as Shogun of Wano, the truth is that Wano will never be free as long as Kaido still stands; as such, they plan the Onigashima Raid around the goal of taking Kaido's head rather than Orochi's. Kaido, being of the same mind, promptly removes Orochi when the latter is no longer a concern to his plans and declares that he will move his base of operations to the Flower Capital. The Raid begins shortly after, with the Scabbards ignoring Kaido's right-hand men and making a beeline for the Emperor in a surprise attack. CP0 observe the battle and agree that it won't matter how many of Kaido's subordinates the alliance takes down as long as Kaido and his officers are able to continue fighting. When it turns out that Orochi survived being decapitated (thanks to his Devil Fruit power), the Scabbards decapitate him again almost as an afterthought, before walking away and stating that they "don't have the time to waste on him".
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Straight for the Commander / int_a32b6a64	comment	Discussed by President Bartlett, Leo, and Adm. Fitzwallace in Season 3 of The West Wing. A foreign government minister has confirmed ties to planning terrorist attacks, and Fitzwallace has a plan to target that person directly and covertly. Bartlett is against it for legal, moral and ethical reasons. Ultimately he decides to authorize the mission.
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Straight for the Commander / int_a6341571	comment	Splint: When Cadoc's surrounded by Orc hunters in Chapter 32, Rukhash recalls a lesson her grandfather Geth taught her when he killed a dangerous snake by cutting its head. She applies that lesson by recognizing Barmund as the leader and shooting him, which leads to disarray with everyone but Dellon.
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Straight for the Commander / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: Built into the game. You cannot command your creatures to attack your opponent's creatures at all. Instead, you can only attack your opponent (or planeswalkers) directly. Your opponent then has the choice to use their creatures to block your attack. Numerous methods exist to help you ensure that your creatures' attacks hit your opponent without being blocked by the enemy creatures. Even just for keyword examples alone, there is flying, landwalk, intimidate, trample, shadow, unblockable, and protection. And keywords are hardly the only options. On the creature level, this is the counter to so-called "tribal" decks — the "Lords" (creatures that give a boost to all friendly creatures of a given type, so-called because they used to have the type "Lord") provide stat boosts, cost breaks, special abilities, or some combination of the above to their allies. Eliminating them produces a meaningful reduction to the power of the remaining enemy creatures. Crosses over with Keystone Army with token-generating creatures. In many cases, such as Master of Waves, the tokens disappear when the generating creature is destroyed, so it is most advantageous to go for the creature rather than pick off its tokens.
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Straight for the Commander / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! has some monster cards that have the ability to attack the player directly. Most of them have the ATK that are less than 1000, but with the right combination, their attacks can be increased to more than 2000. Since the player starts out with 8000 life points, it's not possible to take him out in a single hit. As such using this strategy requires either having multiple direct-player-attack monsters in your deck, or supporting monsters and spell cards that can keep them alive for multiple turns.
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Straight for the Commander / int_a9d9d1f1	comment	In The Rose of Versailles this is done by the Swiss troops helping the defense of the Bastille: having noticed the Parisians didn't start using their cannons until a group of mutinous French Guards had joined them they quickly identified and shot their commander, Oscar (who was wearing a rather cospicuous uniform) to demoralize them. It worked, and the cannons stopped firing... Just long enough for the mortally wounded Oscar to demand her men why the hell they were around her rather than manning their guns and telling sergeant Hulin (in the manga)/Alain to take over and lead the bombardment.
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Straight for the Commander / int_ac4932d7	comment	In Mockingjay, there is a battle training simulation that simulates what happens if the enemy shoots the commander, so as to make this less of an issue if it happened.
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Straight for the Commander / int_afc86b0a	comment	In Ender's Game, Mazer Rackham reveals this is how he defeated the Formic Navy, by deducing which ship had their queen (after deducing that they even have queens). Once he destroyed it, the entire fleet became inert. Unfortunately, the Formics learn from this and try to bait Ender in his first battle into trying the same strategy, by putting their ships in a sphere formation with an expendable decoy as the "leader" in the center. Ender doesn't fall for it. Then at the climax of the book, Ender orders his fleet to charge straight in and fire their mass disintegrator weapons at the Formic homeworld, causing an Earth-Shattering Kaboom that kills all the queens there, taking out all the species under their control. The last part, though, is not meant to win the war. Ender thinks that it's a training simulation but is so tired by the near-constant simulations that all he wants is to quit, so he purposely does something so horrible (i.e. sacrifice the human fleet to destroy an entire planet of sentient beings) that he assumes he will be kicked out of the program. Instead, this is exactly what Mazer was hoping for.
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Straight for the Commander / int_b1072514	comment	Discussed in Forrest Gump when Lt. Dan orders Forrest to never salute him due to the risk of Viet Cong snipers. This concern is real and led to officers no longer wearing rank on their helmets, see Real Life below.
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Straight for the Commander / int_b1adde8b	comment	It becomes a lot easier in Empire and Napoleon with the right use of artillery. However, killing a general while the enemy is too far away can result in the moral rebuilding by the time they enter the musket range.
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Straight for the Commander / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The assassinations of Renly Baratheon and Robb Stark prove this tactic need not be limited to the battlefield. However, while in Renly's case his remaining forces joined his older brother without a fight, Robb's forces were slaughtered alongside him in the same back-stab. In Season 7, Jaime Lannister tries to kill Daenerys Targaryen in a straight charge during the Field of Fire. Unfortunately for Jaime, there's also a black dragon's head between him and her, fanged mouth agape, and a bright orange glow at the back of Drogon's throat... In Season 8, Arya manages to sneak up on and kill the Night King with a dragonglass dagger, which causes his army to instantly collapse as all the other White Walkers, and by proxy, the Wights, were spawned from him.
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Straight for the Commander / int_b389ac77	comment	Discussed but eventually subverted in Cryptonomicon.
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Straight for the Commander / int_b60f87d1	comment	During the Battle for Graza in book five of Arcia Chronicles, Alexander's army is betrayed, so he gathers the remaining loyal cavalry and orders a Self-Destructive Charge against the enemy commander Pierre Tartue's position. He doesn't make it all the way there (though his best friend saves him from certain death), but he gets close enough for Pierre to literally need a new pair of pants afterwards.
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Straight for the Commander / int_b962c879	comment	In Fairy Tail, Natsu and Happy attempt to go directly after Emperor Spriggan AKA The Black Wizard Zeref Dragneel during the war with the Alvarez Empire, but Happy forces Natsu to retreat.
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Straight for the Commander / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: In The Earthwar Saga, when the Khund fleet is approaching Earth, Superboy, Element Lad, Sun Boy and Colossal Boy storm the Khund's citadel and crush their leader Garlak, but it is all for nothing since the Khunds will not surrender.
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Straight for the Commander / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Tyranids use synapse creatures as commanders, who relay the Hive Mind's orders to each individual 'nid in range. Taking out a synapse creature (which can best be summed up as "shoot the big ones") causes momentary confusion amid the 'nids until another synapse creature gets in range. On the other hand, sometimes confusion is "Mill around a bit in front of their guns", sometimes confusion is "Go to ground until the loud noises stop", and sometimes confusion is "RIP! TEAR! KILL!". Luckily, it's usually a combination of all three, so you can thank the Emperor that at least the enemy isn't coordinated anymore. Also, if a big enough synapse creature dies, or even a Hive ship, then some of the Tyranids may die outright from the psychic feedback. This is standard operating procedure when dealing with an Ork "Waaagh!" A Waaagh (combination mass migration, holy war, and pub crawl) only comes together when a Warboss is strong and charismatic enough, and killing him all but ensures that the inevitable squabble for leadership among his subordinates fractures the Waaagh. Of course, since a Warboss is a 12-foot-tall mountain of muscle with stunning anger management issues, this is easier said than done. Da Orks themselves will also often try this on their enemies, as 1) any Warboss worth his salt would relish the chance to pit himself against his opposing counterpart, and 2) if he wins, it lets him pilfer his enemy's nice hat. Tau armies suffer severe morale penalties if their Ethereal leader is slain. A blurb in an Imperial Guard codex credits a Ratling sniper named Magogg with assuring one Imperial victory when he blew an Ethereal's head off. In the lore, however, this is a risky move; the army might suffer morale issues and effectively disintegrate, or they may get angry and decide to bring out the BIGGER guns, which turns them into an Advancing Wall of Doom, only with ranged firepower that makes your armor feel like cardboard. Horus Lupercal's favored strategic approach, both before and after the Heresy, was raiding enemy headquarters to kill their leaders. It informed his decisions to attack Terra directly and to lure the Emperor aboard his flagship. Notably failed when Guilliman killed Alpharius; the Alpha Legion held together and managed to drive off the Ultramarines. This may have been because of their decentralized command structure, or because "Alpharius" was really a mere Alpha Legionnaire in disguise or replaced or succeeded by his secret twin brother Omegon. The Horus Heresy series reveals that this was indeed a body double, and the real Alpharius was actually killed by Rogal Dorn during the Siege of Terra, leaving Omegon to inherit the command. The Tyranid special character known as the Deathleaper pulled a variation on this: It was in charge of killing the cardinal leading the defense of an Imperial world, but killing him would only strengthen the resolve of the defenders. So instead its started ambushing and butchering the cardinal's guards instead, spraying the man with their blood. The cardinal's mind snapped soon after, demoralizing the defenders and making them easy prey for the 'nids.
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Straight for the Commander / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: In "Second of His Name", Daemon Targaryen keeps wishing to do this, but the Crabfeeder is too smart to fall for itâ€¦ though once Daemon separates from his dragon, pulls an I Surrender, Suckers, and starts carving a path towards him, he finally commits most of his men to a counterattack against Daemon instead of hiding on the cavesâ€¦ which allows Laenor's plan to work, as he uses Seasmoke to destroy the Crabfeeder's forces, allowing Daemon to catch up to the Crabfeeder as well.
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Straight for the Commander / int_c0eae17	comment	A viable tactic in the Total War series. Killing the enemy general will shake the morale of the entire enemy force. Low morale units may rout and this can trigger a chain reaction of the entire force fleeing. The original Shogun: Total War even has a special unit of battlefield ninjas, who aren't strong in a stand-up fight, but are stealthy, allowing them to get behind the enemy lines and attack the general. It becomes a lot easier in Empire and Napoleon with the right use of artillery. However, killing a general while the enemy is too far away can result in the moral rebuilding by the time they enter the musket range. Even more viable when fighting against Vampire Count armies in Total War: Warhammer, as they use large masses of undead who are fearless, tireless and can take a beating. Kill the commanders animating them, however, and the entire force will crumble to dust in the span of seconds.
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Straight for the Commander / int_c1b348af	comment	It's the only way to win in Planetary Annihilation; losing your Commander unit is the only defeat condition as in-game the Commander is telling all the other units of the army what to do.
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Straight for the Commander / int_c2297a9c	comment	In the Judge Dredd Apocalypse War story arc, the East Meg One war marshal, "Mad Dog" Kazan, provides the page quote. Ironically, he falls victim to this himself.
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Straight for the Commander / int_c3d129cd	comment	High School DÃ—D: This is a valid strategy in Ratings Games; given the strong Chess Motif, simply sniping the enemy King right out of the gate is a sound way to end a match quickly. That said, certain formats keep the King off the field until a certain point to prevent this. It comes up particularly often with the protagonists, going both ways. Issei is worth all 8 of Rias's pawns, meaning she has an extra very powerful fighter she can send at the enemy King, especially since getting close will typically allow him to Promote and fight even harder. On the other hand, this leaves her with an almost 2:1 manpower disadvantage and a lack of defensive bodies to keep herself protected.
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Straight for the Commander / int_c69c8ce9	comment	A valid tactic in Warlords Battlecry 3 is to go straight for the commander — since he's the initial builder unit and able to capture resource sites, taking him out will seriously hamper the enemy activities, possibly even crippling the AI side completely, if they have no alternative builders or heroes. Just watch out, some heroes fully enforce Rank Scales with Asskicking and can kill the hell out of that initial fighting force if not properly built and managed.
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Straight for the Commander / int_c8c98633	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: The Allied campaign culminates in the Allies doing this on a national scale — want to end the war without having the slog all the way to Moscow like last time? Use one of your new upgraded Chronospheres (set up in the right location) to transport an entire army directly to Moscow and capture the Kremlin before reinforcements arrive or the Soviet premier gets away. Subverted in the Soviet campaign, however. The first mission requires destroying the Pentagon, but the Allied war effort obviously continues, so presumably the generals got out in time. A later mission requires capturing and mind-controlling the U.S. President, but even that doesn't stop Allied hold-outs from continuing the fight to the bitter end.
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Straight for the Commander / int_cb6abef3	comment	In The Avengers (2012), Tony Stark invokes this in his "it's all on you" speech to Loki, making it clear that even if the Chitauri are too much for the Avengers to beat, Loki won't be there to see it because they'll all be coming for him. While it doesn't work out exactly like that, as they beat the army first, with Loki's personal defeat being incidental (and hilarious), they do all come for him at the end.
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Straight for the Commander / int_cede3f7	comment	The Eagle Has Landed, and the film based on it, feature a Nazi attempt to capture Winston Churchill. The trope isn't played totally straight as it's mostly to be a propaganda coup; Britain is far too deeply involved in the war for the loss of any one man to change things drastically.
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Straight for the Commander / int_cfb0c58a	comment	In the first battle for Earth in Exosquad, the Able Squad is able to turn the tide of battle in Terran favor by assaulting the enemy flagship, buying the Terran fleet time to escape the massacre more or less intact.
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Straight for the Commander / int_d3b17858	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics: In the "Defeat [Insert Name Here]" missions, your designated assassination target is always a unique unit that is always at least implied to be the squad commander.
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Straight for the Commander / int_d3b72b58	comment	Enemy at the Gates has a political officer hiding in a fountain with Vasily Zaitsev and about to shoot at a Nazi command team in an area the Nazis believe to be clear. As his spectacles are broken, he then turns to ask Zaitsev if he is able to shoot. Zaitsev modestly admits that he can, takes the rifle... and takes aim directly at the Nazi commander as he is about to have a shower.
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Straight for the Commander / int_d5166b43	comment	Much of Halo 2's first half is spent hunting down one of the Covenant's Hierarchs, the Prophet of Regret. While his death doesn't have any direct effect on the Covenant military, it does start a chain of events which result in the Covenant falling into civil war.
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Straight for the Commander / int_d5166b44	comment	Most Covenant Grunt squads are led by a lone Elite or Brute; killing said leader will usually cause the Grunts to temporarily panic and run away. Post-Halo 3, though, it might have the opposite effect of their Grunts going suicide bomber.
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Straight for the Commander / int_d5bd2a20	comment	In The Book of Mormon, Captain Teancum manages to bring an end to a destructive war with the Lamanites by sneaking into their commander's tent and assassinating him in his sleep. Then he wins the next war the same way, although he's captured and killed the second time.
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Straight for the Commander / int_da093071	comment	In No Need for Bushido, part of Yukizane's backstory involves ending a war by engaging the enemy commander in a one-on-one battle... in a game of chess.
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Straight for the Commander / int_da92c130	comment	Erfworld has this in spades thanks to its TBS Mechanics Verse premise. Taking out the enemy ruler will end their entire side unless there is an heir (and heirs are very costly to pop or designate). This tactic is attempted against Gobwin Knob in Book 1 and Jetstone in Book 2, though it fails for different reasons. It's successfully used against Haffaton in Book 0. Is also a valid tactic against lower-ranking commanders (warlords and the Chief Warlord) since they give a bonus to all units lead by them, in the case of the Chief Warlord they also give an additional bonus to all units of the side and yet another to all units in the same hex.
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Straight for the Commander / int_dca1941d	comment	Tactical Droids in various battles throughout the Clone Wars are sought as high priority targets by the Republic, since a coordinated swarm of Battle Droids is far more dangerous than an uncoordinated horde. This also applies to its sequel series, since Governor Ames's Tactical Droid is leading the Battle Droid battalion on Desix, and its death by Crosshair's shot causes the remaining Battle Droids to be easy pickings by Commander Cody's men during the events of "The Solitary Clone".
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Straight for the Commander / int_e04f934e	comment	In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, during the defense of Garreg Mach after the Time Skip, the enemy commander will charge toward Byleth near the end of the map, hoping to take down Byleth in a last-ditch attempt to seize victory.
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Straight for the Commander / int_e5964cdb	comment	This is the whole objective in Chess, via taking out the enemy king. Taking out the enemy pieces doesn't matter, although it makes life easier on you.
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Straight for the Commander / int_e694aadb	comment	Accidentally done by Ciaphas Cain when leading a column of refugees towards Imperial lines and deciding to punch through the last ork line. He had no idea that was where the warboss was and ended up running into him. The warboss attacked first, preventing his nobs from joining in, and after Cain kills Korbul the nobs start fighting among each other to decide who the new warboss is.
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Straight for the Commander / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	Averted in Revenge of the Sith. The Separatist Droid Army keeps fighting after General Grievous is killed, and the rest of their leadership is taken out, while Anakin/Darth Vader sends a signal to shut down all remaining Battle Droids, truly ending the Clone Wars and bringing peace to the Galaxy via the Galactic Empire.
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Straight for the Commander / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice uses this strategy several times. Referenced directly in a side plot of the pilot, where Michael Westen recommends it to a kid who is targeted by a group of bullies at his school.
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Straight for the Commander / int_f4e8dd04	comment	In Along Came a Spider Clan Nova Cat are following a prophecy that states a legend must die so they specifically seek out enemy commanders of note to kill.
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Straight for the Commander / int_f5c28dbb	comment	In 1632, the American sniper, using modern weapons, uses this strategy to great effect against the armies of the aforementioned time period (whose commanders like to wear flashy hats and such) since said commanders stay out of musket but NOT modern sniper rifle range.
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Straight for the Commander / int_f9fd68fc	comment	In Overlord II, the Empire phalanxes (phalanges?) are typically accompanied by a Centurion. Killing the centurion makes it much easier to defeat them; without killing him a group of fifty fully armed browns will lose nearly thirty of its members before breaking the phalanx and causing the soldiers to scatter.
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Straight for the Commander / int_fb0b20f2	comment	Played straight in Supreme Commander The default victory condition in multiplayer is assassination, where to win one must kill the enemy Armored Command Unit. This is no small feat considering that the Commander usually has a full-out army and/or base protecting him, not to mention the fact that he's one of the most powerful units in the game. Some players might try to send a group of high-damage units on a suicide run to snipe the enemy commander, or if one player is too reckless with using his commander as a combat unit then they could find a surprise waiting for them. When the victory condition isn't assassination, this trope may become inverted as one player suicides his commander into the enemy army/base so the nuclear warhead within takes out as much stuff as possible.
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Civilization V: Peace Walker (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Common Sense (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Fate: Kill (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Five Worlds War (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Game Theory (Lyrical Nanoha) (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Legacy of the Enginseers (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
My Ideal Academia (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Nymeria's War (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Paradoxus (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Shadows over Meridian (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Splint (Fanfic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Alexander the Great (1956) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Bataan / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Cleopatra / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Forrest Gump / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Revenge of the Sith / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Taegukgi / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
The Batman (2022) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
The Patriot (2000) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Winchester '73 / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Fire Emblem (Franchise) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Terminator (Franchise) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Halo: The Fall of Reach / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
A Brother's Price / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Anabasis / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Arcia Chronicles / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Books of Kings / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Dragonlance / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Ender's Game / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Kushiel's Legacy / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Medallion / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Protector of the Small / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Redwall / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
The Crimson Shadow / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
The Salvation War / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Trapped in a Dating Sim: Otome Games Are Tough For Us, Too! / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of That Otome Game is Tough for Us / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
StraightforTheCommander	sameAs	Straight for the Commander
Angolmois (Manga) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Freezing (Manga) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Wanya Kingdom VS Awoofy Unity (Roleplay) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Attila / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Time Commanders / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Chess (Tabletop Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Xiangqi (Tabletop Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
A Total War Saga: TROY (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Age of Empires II (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Age of Wonders 4 (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Assassin's Creed (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Dawn of War (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Dragon's Dogma (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Eternal Card Game (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Flashpoint Campaigns (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Hedon (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Inkulinati (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Medabots (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Nintendo Wars (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Nioh 2 (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Ogre Battle (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Pirates of the Caribbean Online (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Samurai Warriors (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Shin Megami Tensei Liberation: Dx2 (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Shining Force II (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Spellstone (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Star Conflict (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Star Traders: Frontiers (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Super Robot Wars (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Supreme Commander (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Tactics Ogre (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
The Banner Saga 2 (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
The Last Spell (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Total War (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Uncharted Waters (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Valkyria Chronicles II (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Wargame: AirLand Battle (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Wargame: Red Dragon (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Wargroove (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Wolfenstein: The New Order (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Gnosia (Visual Novel) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Sunrider (Visual Novel) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Everyone Is Home (Webcomic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
No Need for Bushido (Webcomic) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Exo Squad / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
The Flight of Dragons / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Ben 10: Alien Force / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander

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