[tinkthank]

I think it would be very good to know if the battle incompatibility replay bug also applies when playing on identical windows machines.

I don't think you can post those files here, but I do think you can send them to Illwinter, and I think they often do get around to looking at them too.

Another possible situation *COULD* be (but I am guessing here):
You stormed his home province (capital) which was high in his dominion. He had an immortal pretender, such as a vampire queen or somesuch. I think that his army can "rout", but that you could eventually lose the battle because your troops will rout after 50 turns or so unless you kill off the vampire queen. Perhaps she was still there on the screen, even though the message "the armies of X were routed"? Well I don't know.