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Quote[/b] (kawligia @ Sep. 17 2003,00:31)]Not to offend anybody but I think that is actually just an oversight on the part of the programmers. To me using it would cheapen any victory so much I may as well put in some sort of cheat code or something. There is just no reason to ever hold up thousands of troops for one little group of trash talking hobos. (If only the game would give you the OPTION to recall your troops to defend or continue with movement orders it wouldn't be a problem.)

I made a post a while back but I captured Egypt, left a small garrison and moved on to the very next provence and took it. Then the Egyptians send an army to Egypt forcing me to retreat to the stronghold (My gigantic army now sandwiched between two (weak) Eqyptian armies,one in each provence). I wanted to send one of my 3 stacks to relieve the seige, but the Egyptians kept attacking me with a puny group of a couple hundred losers. So a full stack was forced to stick around and help the other TWO stacks fight off a handful of idiots who retreated anyway. They did this for 3 years in a row forcing me to lose Egypt. There is absolutely NO reason for that whatsoever.

Thats like abandoning your wife and child in a burning building so you can help a freind kill a nasty looking cockroach.
You could have split your army up, one to fend off the egyptians and one to relieve the army in egypt, i've done that a few times.