Sallying garrison issues

[Kugutsu]

Apologies if this has been raised already, but I have noticed that if you are besieging a city and the garrison sallies out to attack you, and you make them rout, your units dont chase them down. When you command them to attack, they just take a couple of steps, then stand still and watch the enemy run a way. This is extremely frustrating
Hopefully this is fixable, as I dont remember seeing it in previous versions...

[Bonny]

Have seen this, too but i don't think is fixable, since such things are afaik not modded in any way. hardcoced

[Teleklos Archelaou]

It is frustrating, but I am not aware that we have any way of causing this or fixing it. I don't play vanilla though - was this a problem in 1.5 vanilla?

[Kugutsu]

Is it perhaps because your troops cant go to where the enemy are running to (because they cant get through the gates)? Some kind of pathfinding problem. Is it possible to control where routing units run to, and send them in stages, so first to a point just in front of the gate (which attacking troops can see) and then from their to the town square? I dont know if it was in vanilla, I havent played it for ages...

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I've had this happen too. I just tell my guys to run in front of the fleeing enemy then attack them again a while later. And if the enemy group is partially/completely outside, you should be able to chase them, also if the gate is open you can attack a group inside.

[blacksnail]

Right-click inside the city with a fast unit that can get through the gates as they are running through, then mop up in the tight streets. Unless they changed that in 1.5; I haven't had any sally battles in my EB 0.8 games yet.