Hi all,

I purchased STW: Warlord Edition some years back but never got around to playing it. I've now got it installed and have been experimenting with the campaign. Aside from using guns & advanced cavalry, I think I've had experience with most aspects of the game now, so I'm about to settle in to a campaign for the long haul.

However, there is one thing I still haven't figured out: why do my troops move when I haven't ordered them to? This seems to happen to me most often in bridge battles, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it occur elsewhere too.

This happens when their morale is at Steady - i.e. below impetuous but not even close to routing (and indeed, they will listen if I tell them to go somewhere besides whatever spot randomly picked). It happens even after I've clicked the "Hold Position" button that's immediately left of the archers' "fire at will." (Which, if I understand correctly, tells the units not to retreat away from Archer fire on their own?) It happens when they're Fresh and they're tired. In short, they will move despite my controlling everything I would think would make them stay still under ordered otherwise.

As I said, it seems to happen most in bridge battles (when I'm defending), where it's enough to make me pull my hair out. At first I thought they might be trying to get disentangled from other formations - I do tend to stack the units pretty close together, and all in loose formation - but they often get themselves even more jumbled together, so it's a terrible job if that's what's happening. Can someone enlighten me as to why they do this and how I might stop it, or at least manage it in a fashion that's not like a game of "whack-an-insubordinate-mole"?