Quote Originally Posted by Haido
I think this is a common thing to happen to less experienced AI commanders.

I've fought lots of AI commanders that wait and lead their troops.
I've fought many who withdrew all their forces just by seeing that my force was more powerful although not in troopsize and so on.

I play julii campaign and usually when i fight enemy AI it's just some captain or lowlevel family member. But the times ive met 5 star and more they have often been really good.
Actually come to think of it, this may be the case. Ive had the AI withdraw on me plenty of times too.
However when determining the strength of an army im sure that slider doesnt take into consideration how many stars each general has.

90% of the time though you're fighting AI captians or a few star family members, out of over 200 battles in my campaign so far I can count the ones on my hand that have been against a general with ANY stars.