[thejeff]

You also don't always know when you have a hope of retreat. If you had a province at the start of the turn, then lost it, you could expect an orderly retreat, but have no where to go.

On the other hand, you could take a province next to a surrounded castle.

You could base it strictly on the situation at the beginning of the turn, but then people would complain that their precious units died because they stayed and fought against overwhelming odds.


The "morale might recover" suggestion did make me think of something that's annoyed me for a while. Priests casting sermon of courage on routing troops. Since there's no way to unrout (other than berserk?), this is pointless and shouldn't happen. Preferably, routing troops who have their morale magically boosted should get a new check to return to battle.