cavalry archers, and other lost units

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"Harass", "Skirmish", "Raid", whatever, please give us an order that makes Lt Cav behave like Lt Cav should ...
Today again I viewed a battle involving Cav Archers : the guys shoots incoming HI, but when the HI come to contact they engage instead of just breaking to the sides and continue peltering the footsloggers ... And then they're cut to pieces, game over
Not a very effective Lt Cav eventually...

[Pocus]

the fire and flee works in an interesting manner now (dunno if it will makes original release though, perhaps the first patch)

[Psitticine]

The improvements to Fire and Flee and the other orders that lead to units exiting the battlefield will be in the first patch. There wasn't time to get them into the gold Version and have them tested out thoroughly without delaying everything, which would not be good.

To summorize those improvements for those who don't know what I'm talking about, units that have been ordered to make a strategic retreat will remain in position with the army if it wins the battle. Those that rout due to morale failure will still be scattered in neighboring provinces, just as before.

I'm not sure what will happen in a raiding situation if everybody has been ordered to retreat and the battle is "lost" because of the that. They may return to their province-of-orgin but I don't know. I'll post an update on that part of things when I have more info.

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
I'm not sure what will happen in a raiding situation if everybody has been ordered to retreat and the battle is "lost" because of the that. They may return to their province-of-orgin but I don't know. I'll post an update on that part of things when I have more info.

originally, when you loose a fight, you retreat to the highest numbered province. This could lead to some abuse, and was anyway not that optimal. I would like to have the units retreat into their province of origin, if still controlled, and if not, randomly.