routing questions

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Ironhawk:
The scenario I have seen is that a commander has a set of bodyguards. That army then routs for one reason or another and the commander then begins fleeing, so the bodyguard accompanies him. BUT, if the commander gets ahead of the bodyguard and leaves the field before them, they will sometimes turn around and charge the enemy. I don't have any explaination as to why this is, I'm just relating what I have seen.

I suspect this might happen if the commander, personally, blows his morale check, while his bodyguards do not, and thus chickens out. The bodyguards, of course, assigned to escort him, follow him to the end of the battlefield, but once he vacates, the guards, who are still unbroken, no longer have anyone to guard and therefore revert to default orders of attacking the nearest thing in sight.