Fire and Flee

[SurvivalistMerc]

Chazar,

I understand where you are coming from. It is kind of sad to watch your expensive iceclads die to routing troops toward the end of a battle. This is especially true when you're attacking an independent province. Later on, though, you might want to attack specific routing commanders. It would just about be useful to Caelum to have a query as to whether the fliers should surround routing enemies.

Everyone attacks routing enemies, but the problem with a race of fliers is, as you noted, the routing enemy will be surrounded with no way to truly rout, and the troops standing in the way will be attacked and usually suffer casualties. Making matters worse, archers still fire and kill your troops at this time, too.

I like this idea for fire and flee with regard to orderly retreats. I think I like the current rules better for morale failure routs.