Quote Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Hi Red,



I can't say I've ever seen the AI voluntarily withdraw any units myself, in the sense of enabling elements of the reinforcements stack to come into the battle. More often than not, when they depart the map it's because they're routing (cursor-hover describes them as 'running away'). I'm interested in how you even got the opportunity to see this happen, what with all the hectic goings on in the typical battle.
I keep an eye on where the AI general is to avoid nasty surprises. They tend to hold back when there are few men left in the unit. They do withdraw at times to bring on big reinforcement units. You see this some with other units as well. You hammer a unit of skirmishers or light cav badly and they may or may not rout. However, it is obvious they are spent as a unit, and it is not unusual for the AI to to withdraw them to bring a full unit on the field. It will happen with infantry too. Missile units sometimes just withdraw when out of projectiles so that the next unit can enter. (I use the same strategy myself in big battles at times.) We are getting a bit far afield into MTW though.