My commander, collapsing white-faced into the depths of the command chair, does, in fact, manage a weak hurrah.

His commander managed a weak smile in return.

The French commander managed to break the defensive formation by attacking and then pretending to retreat, which tempted the enemy from their hill in pursuit.

Over the next three weeks, commanders must manage a portion of the rotation that officers here call "digesting the elephant."

The Spanish commander, meanwhile, had managed to bring a semblance of discipline back to his army.

He tries to shoot the Spetsnaz commander, but the commander manages to run into another room.

Through some miracle, the commander managed to restrain himself.

"No," the commander, grinning back, managed to sound prim and disapproving anyway.

"So your commander managed to get himself captured as your armies went down to defeat!"

On every side the fighting was spreading like wildfire, and the commanders could no more manage it than they could have regulated a conflagration.