Stop the (routing) Madness!

[deccan]

It isn't so much that we hate a particular rule than that we wish that there would be a particular fixed rule that we can confidently know applies consistently.

[Cainehill]

I'm not suggesting a discussion about the routing - my bane lord routing was as I might have predicted based on the current game mechanics. ( I do think it's flawed that I might have a mighty spellcaster wearing the shoes that teleport him around the battle, casting mighty spells, but routing as the 6th spell is randomly phantasmal soldier. )

But right now, there are battles that should have been won that aren't, because the routing rules weren't applied, and commanders lost for the same reason. Sometimes the nation whose commanders don't rout when they should have wins, because an SC keeps rampaging when it shouldn't. Sometimes the nation loses the commanders, which it should have been able to count on retreating when all the troops were lost.

I don't think it's supposed to be, "Sometimes non-berserk commanders will rout when all troops are killed or retreat, and sometimes they won't."