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archaeolept said:
routing is very quirky. I just watched a battle where one non-immortal unit non-berserk did not rout even though all other troops and commanders were killed. And Stormbinder reported having his banelord not rout when the PD was killed, while I certainly have had SC's rout under similar situations.
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Archae is correct. Both events he was refering to have indeed occured to me in our Throne of Heavens game during the Last 2 turns.
In the first case I lost banelord who didn't retreat when he should. He was standing in the back on "5xhold" orders, and after PD was slaughtered by GR attack that I anticipated, he just keep standing there all alone in the corner and than he started fighing, when undead cavalery finally reached him (1 or 2 battle turns *after* PD was slaughtered).
He did have a hellsword (ptentila berserker) but he did not "gone bereserker", just standing still in the back, following his "hold orders".
I also seen others none-bereserker none-immortal SC who did not rout in my other games, like Cohen's Archdevil who didn't rout after all PD was killed. Again, no bereserker/immortal status, no friendly summons/troops left on the field.
Somebody suggested that this may be due to the fact that PD and other soldiers were
killed before they had chance to rout. Could it be possible?
Another case of units not routing was with my AQ prophet this very turn(again, no bereserker ability). All commanders and soldiers except her were slowly killed one by one during the fort defense. None tried to retreat though, and AQ have finished the battle successefully by herslef about 20 battle-turns later.
Could it be due to the fact that she was defending the fort? But I was reasonably sure that commanders can rout from fort defenses just like from regular battles.
Anyway, could one of the devs comment on these cases please? Before these two battles I though I undersand routing mechanism in dom2 pretty well. Now I am not so sure... Were these bugs or features?
Regards,
Stormbinder