Ok - two things on reinforcements i was hoping one of you lovely lot could clear up:
1 - why are my reinforcements coming on automatically fatigued? in a battle (not desert) every reinforcement i brought on was automatically knocked down to 2 stamina bars as soon as they came on - I had moved the reinforcement flag half way across the map, so by the time they got there they would have lost maybe a bar of stamina, but it seemed unfair, especially if they got ambushed on the way to the rally point.
2 - Can you set the order of your reinforcements? In the same battle, my infantry and archer line had seen off the enemy hardcore, and now he was just throwing peasants and missile units at me. my infantry line was just too tired to pursue, leaving them sitting there getting shot at.
as we both had tons of reinforcements (me around 3000, him 5000+) the battle could well go on for ages, unless the cavalry in my reinforcements could come on and clean up his misslemen.... but every time I got a reinforcement, it was another infantry unit, which, as above, was too tired to chase down his skirmishing archers... finally won it with sheer quality of troops (and killing a few hundred prisoners to put his peasants off) but where were my light cav?
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