Apologies if this turns out to be a dumb question:
As I read it, if the attacker has more Deadly characters he is allowed to kill a participating defender after the struggle resolves.
So, if I attack in a Military struggle with a Deadly character and the defender puts up characters to defend and for some reason loses, then I get to resolve the challenge (so the defender kills a character) and then kill an additional participating character? In essence, kill an extra character?
If so, what happens if the defender decides to kill a lone defending character in the resolution, does that mean that the Deadly has no effect because there are no participating defenders?