It is a bad idea, and I'm pretty sure if we were given a proper choice, very few people would willingly play this game. But given that not playing it will make things worse, the best we can do is keep our damage minimal.

... Though I think I need to apologize to you- I'm not too sure how things are now since it's been a while since I've played in games like this, but knights tend to... fair pretty badly in these games.