Something strange here (No message pop up)

**Mr Durian** · 09-14-2006, 21:29

Originally Posted by Quillan

I never get that as a pop up. I always get it as a small icon dropping down the left side of the screen. If I click on it, then I get the pop up, in the same fashion as I get diplomatic, recruitment, construction and event reports every turn and notices of skill and retinue increases.

Thats the thing. I'm not getting any notifications.

**Oaty** · 09-14-2006, 21:46

If the army still has a living general the army will survive. Is there a surviving general when you defeat them?

**Mr Durian** · 09-14-2006, 21:54

Originally Posted by Oaty

If the army still has a living general the army will survive. Is there a surviving general when you defeat them?

Nope.

**professorspatula** · 09-14-2006, 22:40

Is it not possible the last remnants of the beaten army have retreated to another army stack or into a forest location, thus disappear out of sight? Quite often a few men will survive and not simply disband. And they can retreat a fair distance too. I've massacred several enemy stacks recently, but only got the disband icon a couple of times. As long as I know I killed most of them in the battle, it doesn't really matter that much if a few survived. I'll get them sooner or later.

**Roy1991** · 09-15-2006, 21:02

I have a similar problem with the "Faction Destroyed" messages.
Sometimes they appear correctly, sometimes they don't.
Started happening several weeks ago.

**Tamur** · 09-15-2006, 21:24

At times retreating units seem superhuman in their ability to move very large distances. I supposed it's possible that the game is suddenly generating odd bugs like this. More likely it's a case of units either retreating and merging, as professorspatula pointed out, or units retreating out of sight and staying out of sight, or simply wandering off and not showing up for years (thus causing the no Faction Destroyed messages). If it's possible in your version, using the "cheat" that removes fog-of-war is ideal for situations like this.

**Roy1991** · 09-15-2006, 22:23

Originally Posted by Tamur

At times retreating units seem superhuman in their ability to move very large distances. I supposed it's possible that the game is suddenly generating odd bugs like this. More likely it's a case of units either retreating and merging, as professorspatula pointed out, or units retreating out of sight and staying out of sight, or simply wandering off and not showing up for years (thus causing the no Faction Destroyed messages). If it's possible in your version, using the "cheat" that removes fog-of-war is ideal for situations like this.

That might be the cause for the "Enemy army routs" messages not to appear, but it can't be the case with the "Faction Destroyed" messages.

If you take a faction's last settlement, then the faction's destroyed, and thus there are no more units that wander off (in vanilla RTW at least)

**HighLord z0b** · 09-21-2006, 06:57

Originally Posted by Tamur

At times retreating units seem superhuman in their ability to move very large distances. I supposed it's possible that the game is suddenly generating odd bugs like this. More likely it's a case of units either retreating and merging, as professorspatula pointed out, or units retreating out of sight and staying out of sight, or simply wandering off and not showing up for years (thus causing the no Faction Destroyed messages). If it's possible in your version, using the "cheat" that removes fog-of-war is ideal for situations like this.

I can confirm that sometimes a beaten army get's a superhuman movement spurt if beaten in an enemy province.

I'm playing the ERE in vanilla RTW:BI, I had hired mercenary camel riders when trying to take Hatra from the Sassanids. After the battle was won I planned on disbanding them to avoid the cost, but as I had plenty of movement left I used them to ride into Sassanid territory to see what forces they had. Of course as soon as I got near the capital I was attacked by a full stack army, so I withdrew. I had run out of movement though so I couldn't withdraw when they attacked again, so I thought to myself I'll attack on the battle map and try and kill as many archers and skirmishers as I can. I did alright for a bit but of course the camels routed pretty quickly.
Here's the interesting bit:
I had completely run out of movement for the turn yet the 15 remaining camels suddenly retreated almost their entire movement allowance again to behind my border.Pretty much like the way armies move in MTW when defeated, retreating to the closest friendly border.