Inconsistant outcome

TruePurple · #1 December 20th, 2007, 04:25 PM

I've not had issues with the commanders fleeing, especially and win too.

If I lose the battle fleeing nonmerc units appear in nearby provinces. Its only if I win that they disappear altogether.

Also units will sometimes wait till all the enemy is fleeing and I'm clearly winning before they flee. Actually very often thats exactly when they start fleeing. Which makes no sense.

Noone else is troubled by either aspects of this problem?

VedalkenBear · #2 December 20th, 2007, 04:37 PM

Well, does this happen with a variety of nations, or just a few? Do you use many small squads, or few large squads? Does this happen with high-morale troops in addition to low-morale troops?

I would think that more detail would be useful.

PyroStock · #3 December 20th, 2007, 04:53 PM

I've never had fleeing units disappear. Win or lose, they are either in the province or my nearby provinces.

I have had battle reports show losses that did not take place in the battle I watched, but that's rare. In SP the game always goes by the report.

Torin · #4 December 20th, 2007, 05:06 PM

could you attach the turn file TP?

TruePurple · #5 December 20th, 2007, 05:15 PM

I don't have one, this is just something I've experienced a few times and figured I'd add it to the thread.

I could maybe keep a eye out for one next time. But between the forced autosave bit and alt tab/minimizing while the game is running being a pain in the ***..

Anyone ever have units retreat on them the moment all of the enemy decides to flee or even slightly latter?

Torin · #6 December 20th, 2007, 05:19 PM

yes, they dont want to get killed and dont care for your kingdom (maybe).

but dissappearing routed units i never happened to have (or didnt notice).

VedalkenBear · #7 December 20th, 2007, 05:20 PM

TP: I _have_ had units retreat after, ostensibly, all of the opponent's units are retreating. Generally, this will happen when a few archers on the other side aren't _really_ routing, and they cause a morale check on my unit(s) which fail.

llamabeast · #8 December 20th, 2007, 05:28 PM

Never seen disappearing troops either. Keep the trn file next time you see it.

As for your troops retreating after the enemy are routed: I don't think it's a bug, just chance.

Agrajag · #9 December 20th, 2007, 05:54 PM

If you win, any troops of yours that retreated should be in one of your nearby provinces. This is strange.
Is it possible that all nearby provinces were owned by the enemy at one point during that turn, just not at the end of the turn?
If so, then its possible that sometimes during the middle of the turn your troops really didn't have anywhere to route to and that's when you fought (and thus lost your retreating troops.)