The only good thing about this is that something will be done in a patch.
But does anyone have any tips for how to minimise "the passive AI bug" until then? When does it kick in? I've heard people say it's related to missile inferiority. Should you then just take, say, one missile unit per stack as I used to do with Romans in RTW/RTR/EB? (This might be ok, perhaps, as the French or some other continentals (Danes, HRE), with a token crossbow unit or two).
I am finding the AI often attacks my English army and then forms up just in range, to get shot to death by my 3-5 units of longbows until my arrows run dry. Not always - not with bridges or siege assaults - but more often than not in field battles. It's forgivable in a defence, when the AI is outnumbered - what's it going to do? (Think Harold at Hastings). But when it attacks me with more melee power, it's a major problem. I don't know if what I observe is actually a bug that will be fixed or whether it is related to this sally issue, but it seems relevant.
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