Yep, I tried the Alt. Left Click while engaged and it was run for your life time within less than a minute. Maybe what's needed is the equivalent of a skirmish mode for, say, Feudal Seargents, FMAA and above where they could be ordered to give ground slowly. I have no complaints with the battle mode but thought that this would be a good inhancement.

Agreed Barocca, charge a fee for passage. The longer you've been allied or the better Ally you've been the less the fee.

I can see various (but not all) allies turning against you when you posses a sprawling empire but at the moment for example I've done well but just started. Although I'm not being physically assaulted by allies there's a worldwide plot to attack my gene pool. Not a damn thing I can do about it in spite of a history of not breaking alliances, the imminent collapse of the French faction through Almo assault etc. I just have to sit back and watch my heirs turn into characters from The Deliverance.

All of these complaints apply to GA games by the way where you supposedly don't have to conquer the known world and where the player can leave factions unmolested throughout and visa versa.

I think that some AI Common Sense tweaking could easily fix this. The best fix of all would be an Editor where one could choose one's allies--(The English and the Danes, Western Europe against Islam) etc.

FYI, on a whim I offered one of my Pricesses to the Pope and HE accepted, the old backslider. I should drop an inquisitor on him. Doesn't help my mouth breather heir problem though.