Can't attack routing troops?

[mcantu]

i'd like to point out that the behavior i'm describing only happens when attacking a settlement with walls. at all other times chasing routers works just fine...

[seriousbusiness]

This happens to me a lot in Rome Total Realism and sporadically in Invasio Barbarorum (but not Roma Insurrectum or EB). Dunno why. Usually I just order my units ahead of the routers and some get caught anyway. Eventually they will all be routed in a seige, with patience. Yeah, it's a RTW 1.5 engine bug, never ironed out although it is odd that it only seems to occur in certain situations.

[Majd il-Romani]

in my most recent battle vs AS, I managed to chase down several units of Phalanxes, but on the last unit routing, whenever I ordered cavalry to attack, they run after them for a few seconds and then run around in circles.

[Rodrico Stak]

This often happens to me when a single soldier gets separated from the rest of the unit. I had a lot of trouble chasing a unit of Pantodapoi Phalangitai because somehow one soldier out of 25 remaining had managed to be in the forest around a mile (don't know how that happened) away from the rest of the unit. My cavalry determinedly stayed in the exact midpoint between the large group and the single soldier, and so were too far away to attack them.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

I've had this issue too. Oddly, it only happens when I'm using heavy cavalry to chase the guys down, and only on a city map where the enemy is sallying forth. If I use horse archers to chase them in hand-to-hand, it works fine. If I use infantry, it works fine. I just can't can't do it with my cataphracts or other heavy cavalry.