Negative units killed "(-5)"?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
And is it intentional that *sometimes* the battle report lists everything that happens (friendly participants and killed, enemy participants and killed), *sometimes* just the friendly, *sometimes* just the enemy, and *sometimes* just who was participating but not who was killed?

Yes. If a battle report lists only enemy participants killed, that means the battle was the enemy vs. only your militia/province defense. If you won, then nothing was lost: The militia always regains all units upon winning, or is annihilated and the province is lost if they lose the battle.

If the battle report lists only friendly units, then the only enemy participants were similarly, militia: If you killed them all, you wiped them all out and now hold the province. If you lost the battle, then you accomplished nothing: Militia are not subject to attrition.

If the battle report lists only who participated, that means your scouting witnessed a battle, but you were not a participant. Therefore, there is no "friendly" or "enemy" units, and thus this means nothing.

The one annoyance in battle reports is when you storm a fortress, where it merely says "We captured the fortress!" and does not give you the casualty summaries.