Maybe Fighting Withdrawal was the wrong term- Giving Ground would have been better--ie, fall back slowly and not getting slaughtered or routed. Hannibal did that with his center at Cannae and drew the Romans into a trap. The troops that did it (many of them Gauls I believe)were hardly disiplined professionals. I thought that it would be a good option for outnumbered defenders.

As to #$%&*#^ Diplomacy- I don't think that I've played a single game as the English where it didn't begin to happen as soon as I got the upper hand with the French.

Once again, it's just too good a game for the devs to ignore it's 1 subpar, universally hated, probably easily fixed aspect...BY GOD

Well, back to my idiot heirs who are no doubt observing barnyard animals in a less than chaste way.