I know this was discussed to death in another thread, however I never saw a clear consensus achieved, so I’d like to hear how you manage it, (unpatched BTW). As the method I used in the Gold Edition Demo, (right click once and let them walk up, then they lower lances and charge once in range), just doesn’t work at all. They get spread out while walking and then do terrible as they don't do a formed charge.
In addition, when I tell units to withdraw from combat I’m getting an annoying situation where they literally ignore the order totally, and I know they are ignoring it was other selected units do it but one or 2 always ignore it and keep fighting.
Between these two problems I’ve lost easily a half a dozen generals and 1000's of cavalry in just 4 campaigns (I’ve quit most of them because of this bug). It's particularly troublesome in battles that are against me as I often use bodyguard cav charges in RTW to turn the tide. This doesn’t work in M2TW, and it utter murder winning such battles.
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