Army mysteriously vanished

[Amaris]

Okay, thanks for the explanation. I'll watch out that this never happens again. It can screw up a strategy quite a bit if a whole full stack army simply ceases to exist.

[artaxerxes]

I tried landing an army in Arabia, hoping to take out Saba before they started expanding (was earlier days). An eleutheroi attacked me, and since I wanted to save my troops for Saba, I retreated. Next turn they were all gone, with heroic death message for the FM... and there was plenty of room to go, but think they may have lacked movement points

[Lusitani]

I had the same problem happening to me a few times also, they just dissapeared when oredered to withdraw.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=103828

[artaxerxes]

It has happened thrice to me (so my plan of kicking out Saba when they're young seems to be somewhat a failure) - all 3 times because 1) they were in a foreign province (eleutheroi all 3 times if that matters) and 2) they withdrew when out of movement points. That IS the reason for my problems - no problem with having nowhere to withdraw to, this is bloody arabia

Btw. Mine armies DIDN'T have 'must fight or be destroyed' signs, as far as I remember. But they died nonetheless... the reason must be something... like... well?... quicksand!!!