User blog comment:KaiserLos24/New Shadow Isles Champion- Kalista (Maybe :P)/@comment-4290320-20141025082926/@comment-5921332-20141025153728

And in this case, he wouldn't have just taken down his own troops, but turned them into then spectral riders that he charges with during hisn"Onslaught of Shadows". In a way, he still becomes the general of an army (Albeit a spectral one at that)