Armies Too "Fragile?"

[NimitsTexan]

But if they have 500-1000 left, and you have 500-1000 left, that is not a meaningless battle, is it? That gives the defender a chance to regroup and make one more stand, perhaps.

One of the advertised features of this game was that the AI could make the decision to retreat to fight another day, but between the AI's unwillingness to retreat and the games killing off of defeated armies, that features seems completely missing.

[Polemists]

Well I don't think the math your talking about works as you say. I had a battle as Poland against Sweden last night. All 4 cities in a big gaint war.

In 4 battles the casualties were

1000 v 1000=Lost, 200 men left =My army died
2000 v 1500= Won, 400 enemy left=Survived, went back to replinish
800 v 500=Won, 350 enemy left= Survived, went back to replinish.
1500 v 500= Won, 30 enemy left=Army died


So as you can see some armies do survive this is not a instant kill feature. Usually 500 or more is the rule, but i've seen as low as 300 survive. Which is reasonable. If your surrounded by 1000 or 2000 men and you only have a 100 left and are losing, it's doubtful you'd survive long.

[KozaK13]

When you auto resolve the enemy usually has survivors that you have to chase across the campaign map if that makes you feel better.