Quote Originally Posted by Lt.NuGGets
They were situated on a hill, 4 units of archers, some heavy cav and maybe one or two spears. I approached, the archers read "idle" and the spears and cav were "eager, ready" but nobody did anything. I basically walked up to them with one solo unit (like 3 feet from them) and stared at thier archers .
Weird - was it a sally or a regular field battle?

I seldom sally, so I have never encounterd the extreme passivity that has been reported as a bug.

Pre-patch in field battles, I found the AI horribly passive on the attack (it would line up an awesome melee army in front of my longbows and just wait to die). That was game-killing for me but now is gone.

Post-patch, the AI can still be passive in the field battles on defense, in the sense that you can shoot it to death. But that's more defensible (they are outnumbered, so charging you would just lead to a an even quicker death). However, their archers not shooting when in range is strange - I've not encountered that.