what's wrong with the moral in this game?

[Megas Methuselah]

His wife was at full strength? It doesn't matter, she couldn't fight off an army; he had to go back and get her.

[Mr Frost]

I've had it happen before myself . General was on a hill well above and a good distance from the actual fighting when it happened .
It sounds like one of those bugs that we'll be told is in our imagination .
It's probably happened to others whom simply assumed the unit took a hit or some such so didn't realise .
I do hope it isn't some cheesy "well sometimes people panic for no reason" "feature" that they forgot to mention .

Mabey the moral calculations might in vary rare instances forget to drop penalties for the generals' unit that have stopped being valid or might perhaps be dumping those of several other units on the general ? I'm gust wildly guessing though .

[Vlad Tzepes]

This is what happened to me recently during a naval battle. I loaded the battle screen but had to leave, so I didn't click start. I left the computer running. It took me longer than I expected to get back (around 4 hours) so , when I finally reached home again, I thought I'd play it quick and move forward.

The battle was a sloop + 2 frigates as reinforcements (me) against a galleon. Practically immediately after I hit the start battle the sloop started to waver, flag went white and it surrendered. Strangely enough, the AI galleon moved in firing distance and stayed there. My reinforcements showed up, behaving correctly. I brought them in firing range as well and gunned the galleon into surrender - the galleon didn't respond in any way.

As a result of the battle I lost the sloop (with the sinking animation) and gained the galleon (which I kept).

So, I'm not sure it's the same thing as the fleeing general from the field, but looks like it's somewhere in the same league.

PS - I play time limit battles.