short question

**ludwag** · 10-26-2008, 01:07

Hi this is one of these question you can never find answer to anywhere. Some times i press withdraw before a battle, and my army disappears without a trace. It is very bad to not know when to withdraw and when i can risk my army and FM.

**Majd il-Romani** · 10-26-2008, 01:09

Do you mean withdraw like before a battle starts or inbattle? Be more specific

**johnhughthom** · 10-26-2008, 01:13

There are certain situations when you can't withdraw, there is a notification telling you on the pre battle screen if you withdraw the army will be destroyed.

**Majd il-Romani** · 10-26-2008, 01:41

Originally Posted by johnhughthom

There are certain situations when you can't withdraw, there is a notification telling you on the pre battle screen if you withdraw the army will be destroyed.

yeah like when you are defending in a seige or run out of move points.

or it could be that you are playing with spacebar (where the campaign map units move really fast) and you simply can't find where they went. Happened to me a few times, but mostly with agents because they have no flag

**Pontius Pilate** · 10-26-2008, 06:21

If you lose sight of your character, click on your faction summary scroll (should be the circle on bottom right corner of your screen) then click on "show lists scroll" and a list of all your military commanders, even governors and generals, will pop up. It will also show you how many troops they have under their command or in their city.

**ludwag** · 10-26-2008, 11:36

Originally Posted by johnhughthom

There are certain situations when you can't withdraw, there is a notification telling you on the pre battle screen if you withdraw the army will be destroyed.

hm, I have never seen it. Is it when holding over the withdraw button?

**XSamatan** · 10-26-2008, 12:04

this is a RTW bug, it occurs when the game sees no space to withdraw the army

Examples:if you are on a small island (rhodes, etc)
if you are in a province that is far away from your home provinces (like spain for the romans)

XSamatan

**Lysimachos** · 10-26-2008, 12:20

Originally Posted by XSamatan

this is a RTW bug, it occurs when the game sees no space to withdraw the army

If we are talking about the same thing it's not a bug, but a feature and it won't let you safely retreat more than once in a turn (or you would have to chase small enemy armies across the whole world to get rid of them).