If you're looking for some, uh, less cheaty ways in how players could have more than 1 commander at a time, here's what I know of:
- 1. A player went afk, which automatically gives their units, including their commander, to another player on the same team until the afk player is no longer afk (if ever).
- 2. 2 or more players on the same team opted to use CommShare to combine their forces into one. (This works similarly to Archon mode from StarCraft 2, where 2 players take control of a single faction.)
- 3. One player gave their commander to another player as a gift.
- 4. One player had their commander stolen by another player using a Dominatrix.
- 5. One player used an Athena or commander's resurrection ability to raise another player's fallen commander back from the dead, on the resurrecting player's side.