Friendly Fire Bug?

[Sir Beane]

I have to disagree as:

- Most modern friendly fire incidents;
1. Happen due to the fluidity of modern combat
2. Communications issues between branches/allied nations compounding same
3. The increase in night battles as that is where Western technolgy has a more pronounced edge
4. Unforms that blend in with the terrain
5. Artillery firing indirectly

- XVIII century warfare was LOS oriented and only point #2 would come into play

That might be the case with modern warfare, but war today is not the same as war in the 17th century. Not that it really matters, and we seem to be heading very quickly off-topic.

How common are these incidents of A.I friendly fire? I've fought several battles so far and I haven't noticed friendly fire at Brandywine. Lagos is a different story though, in one battle the French seemed determined to 'accidentally' shoot the Admiral's flagship. Which was useful, because up until then I was losing .

[Hollerbach]

I've only played the demo land battle once, but based on the unit stats at the end it looks like both myself and they AI took out around 50 of our own men each with friendly fire. I have no idea when this happened as I didn't see anything obvious during the battle. Since it was my first battle with a new system things felt pretty chaotic and I didn't know what was going on half the time, so it could have been arty, muskets, grenades... But yeah, 50 out of ~800 casualties seems a bit high, especially when I wasn't trying to do this (In MTW1/2, RTW sometimes I'd fire into a melee intentionally if I only had low level troops involved, kinda like the English in Braveheart...)