Quote Originally Posted by Prodigal
Best thing is just to knuckle down & try to take as many of them with you as possible.
I found this with the mongols, got into the 'Make the buggers pay' mentality and it worked. Killed their khan :) which removed an annoying assassination mission for him aswell so it was a big bonus (the guy was very paranoid).

If you move your army to its fullest extent in a turn you have no choice of withdrawl if attacked becuase you've used all your movement for that turn. A nice strategical restriction there especially in wooded northern europe when armies can be hiding anywhere.