defense mode does not double their defense, I don't believe. I think it adds 10 defense points

i thought it only increased defense by 10

I just tested it.

It costs 50% of BP to do it, subtracts 5 from the unit's Attack and adds 10 to it's Defense.

Ya defense mode add +10 and believe me you do no where near double retals

im pretty sure that in campaigns you get to do retal twice with defense mode...

In campaigns you do retaliate twice. In battles you only retaliate once.

RKF was saying "double retals" to mean "doubly powerful retals," since someone suggested that they did twice as much damage. They don't. In fact, defense mode makes you do between 5% and 10% LESS damage in retaliation. The difference is that you TAKE between 10% and 20% less damage

Tribal, you are talking about a battle, so my question is did you move the macemen you attacked with?

If you did you would have been attacking with less BP then your opponent. Thus you would do less damage.

Remember in battles the most BP you will ever have is 100%. Any movement automatically lowers that.