Quote Originally Posted by Mori Gabriel Syme
It sounds like my experience may be atypical, but I've had several battles with the AI controlling part of my army, & I've yet to have the AI lose the general.
The only sure way I've found to avoid it is to whip the AI enemy army with the other force before the AI "friendlies" arrive.

However, depending on the set up, the AI might use a less aggressive stance and preserve the general. I've seen this sometimes with enemy reinforcements. All too often the AI has units running winded headlong into the fight. It likes to use the general as a battering ram since he is in a heavy cav unit. This might work if there was support and the line was hitting all at once, but the AI usually strings out the reinforcements so they can beaten in detail. The AI usually deploys your reinforcing army as if it were many single units, rather than a body. The AI programmer could take a few lessons from Nathan Bedford Forrest. (Hint: review the action at Brices' Crossroads.)