Mystery commander deaths after battle - bug?

[LintMan]

I just had a wierd battle where I won, routing the enemy, with 5 out of 6 commanders still alive, and none of my non-pd troops routed. But the report lists 6 out of 6 commanders dead, and looking in the province, it is under my control, and the surviving Herat Companions are there, but no trace of the leaders are there or in surrounding provinces. Also, my surviving hoplites are shown as routed to a neighboring province when in fact they didn't route in the battle.

On this same turn, an earlier battle (an Earth Attack) in the battle reports gives the "bad vcr header" error and crashes the game, but things seem fine as long as I don't try to view it.

Details of the battle (single player game):
Arcoscephale (me) defending:
10 province defense
Strategos (with Flying Ship & many other items)
- 24 Heart Companions
- 33 Hoplites
- 2 slingers
- 2 Scorpions
Mystic: FFESS magic
Druid: NNHH
2 Arco Priestesses
Soulless comander
- 55 Soulless

Marignon attacking:
Grand Master
Witch Hunter
Friar
- 3 KoTC
- 3 Royal Guard
- 10 Summer Lions
- 5 Spring Hawks
- 16 Fire Snakes
- 9 Halberdiers
- 7 crossbowman
- 10 archers
- ~30 barbarians
- ~20 militia

At the beginning of the battle, I make the sorry discovery that the flying ship gives the bearer flying *in combat* as well as on the map (even though it doesn't add the wing icon), so the strategos flies ahead of everyone and promptly gets mobbed and dies.

After the the battle goes OK - the soulless are obliterated (except the leader in the rear), but most of marignon's troops are killed/routed.

At the end, all my leaders except the strategos are still alive. My surviving 17 Heart Companions and 20 Hoplites hunt down the Last remaining Marignon units. The 4 spellcasters are all fatigued out but the souless commander is not.

Checking on the map, all the Heart Companions were left in the province (leaderless), and the Hoplites were in a neighboring province.

Wierd, eh?