Quote Originally Posted by dismal
It costs me a heckuva a lot of archers.

I often use archers to harass and bait the enemy lines, and it would sure be nice if they ran away the first time you told them. Which is typically when the enemy cav are coming right at them.
To make it work you have to 1. Hit Pause. 2. Turn off fire at will. 3. Give the halt command. 4. Then order the archers to run away. The order of the commands is important. So it only takes 4 steps to get archers to do what they should do automatically.