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Originally posted by PDF:

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Pocus:
We know that its surely not the fear of doing some losses by friendly fire that can motivate them in doing nothing so why are they sitting on the grass?

It likely is this. One addition to the battle AI in Dom2 is that it's much more careful about choosing targets that won't cause as many friendly fire problems as in dom 1. The devs have commented on this occasionally.

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Herrr, on that point issue is still there : my Ulm crossbowmen just shot in the back Raterik their leader (with Fire sword, Elem Armor, Charcoal Shield, and even Bracers of Prot...) !!!!
And don't tell me that's normal, he was giving the Last blows to a half dozen enemy archers, with the rest of their army already routed !!!

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Obviously, it's hard for the AI to decide when something it worth the risk of friendly fire.

I'd understand the request for "don't fire at a routing enemy if there are friendly units within X squares", but in what you're describing, Raterik had technically not routed the enemy yet, so his standing orders of "fire at the bastards until they rout" were still good. From what I've heard of the Ulmish military code, disobeying orders can get you in no end of trouble, but there's no provisions for accidental friendly fire - they were playing smart...