"Average" Victories and Defeats not so average

**Amon_Zeth** · 10-11-2004, 02:52

I hardly ever get any average victories or defeats, and those I have gotten have been in naval battlews or when I get chased off but there are AI reinforcements who win the battle for me. Do any of you get average victories/defeats, and how often?

**andrewt** · 10-11-2004, 03:02

Yeah. The AI starts with a few units at the point farthest from me. I rush in with my horse archers as they withdraw. I only manage to kill a few before they managed to completely withdraw. That's an average victory, says the game.

**discovery1** · 10-11-2004, 04:13

I get average victory when the enemy marches off the map with out meeting my forces.

**DisruptorX** · 10-11-2004, 04:17

Originally Posted by discovery1

I get average victory when the enemy marches off the map with out meeting my forces.

Ack, they took the one "feature" that was the only major problem in MTW (enemies withdrawing immediately after deploying) and kept it.

**Colovion** · 10-11-2004, 05:41

Yeah they do that for me too.

You'll load up, deploy your troops, get all setup - then they back away slowly so you don't do anything because you assume they're just withdrawing. Then they go to the highest part of the map - on some cliff (not the top, they sit right on the face of it) - and then once you get your troops near and fiddle with forming them on this crazy cliff like thing they run away.....

**discovery1** · 10-11-2004, 05:50

Originally Posted by DisruptorX

Ack, they took the one "feature" that was the only major problem in MTW (enemies withdrawing immediately after deploying) and kept it.

The only time I've seen it happen is when I have forces superior to what they are fielding.

**Patricius** · 10-11-2004, 10:45

Like discovery1, when enemies walk off the field of battle without fighting, or fighting only a little, it is often an average victory.

**chunkynut** · 10-11-2004, 12:00

Originally Posted by DisruptorX

Ack, they took the one "feature" that was the only major problem in MTW (enemies withdrawing immediately after deploying) and kept it.

Annoying but true to history and common sense. If a large force attacks you with clear superiority you withdraw.

Unfortunately with the ability to only withdraw once when attacked the second time your army attacks the same opposing army there is a battle - so they withdraw on the field when they can't withdraw on the campaign map.

Boring but if can you run in a couple of units of cav you can halt a lot of units from fleeing.