Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
Spino, I haven't played with this much yet. But this actually makes more sense than MTW's method. It should take the physical intervention of an officer/general to rally most units. Yep, it's a pain in the butt, and won't matter if the fighting/movement speed is so high that you don't have time to do anything. Elite/disciplined units should rally on their own--but rank and file should not. I need to study the implementation of this a bit more.
It is an even greater pain in the butt since you cannot hotkey group a single unit! I tried making my general unit hotkey Group #1 and the game will not accept it! So basically in the middle of combat you may instantly command groups of normal units but in order to access your general and command him to rally the troops you either have to use the mouse in order to select your general unit or cycle through each individual unit with the keys in order. This means precious time is lost before you can directly control the general, let alone rally the troops.

On a different note I've also noticed that 'Exhausted' troops can run! No more trudging about as in MTW. In RTW exhausted infantry units can run at a respectable speed and for a looooong time, almost indefinitely! I played the modded training battle as the Gauls and had a Tired unit of Gaulish archers chased all around the map by an Exhausted unit of Triarii! In all that armor the only thing with two legs an exhausted unit of Triarii should be able to catch is a dead man! C'mon CA, give us a break!