I"m not arguing the history of it, I am arguing the playability of it.


This goes back to horse archers in RTW. Could they just run around the map constantly and shoot you? Yes. Did that make for fun battles when you had 600 legoniares you just marched around for 50 minutes in a magical square as you tried to corner them or wait till they ran out of arrows? No


Your points may be valid for history but the AI was never aggressive enough to use those small armies to strike you. Which meant they'd just sit there with 14 archers and a prince and annoy you.
Is that really resistance? No. Is that annoying? Yes

I don't want to hop chase armies, it's just not any fun. If the AI retreated and replinished and restruck sure, but to just endless chase 100-200 men armies with full stacks would bore me to tears.

Plus do to the fact you now have a "Ring" of attack the AI army has to move so far back it's beyond words the distance.


If you really want more logistics and less fragile armies I'd suggest you either find a mod group or go create one with a similiar interest. Yet I see no reason for the core of TW to change.