How to retreat from battlefield without any losses???

[guineawolf]

How to retreat from battlefield without any losses???

Example:i use Parthian Horse Archers,i am out of arrow,i retreat all my Horse Archers,then i lossed some of them,how am i gonna to avoid this?

[Poulp']

Do you order all your units to retreat at once, or do you gradually move them out ?
Do you let some units do the last stand fighting to buy time ?
How far are retreating units from the edges of the map when you call the retreat ?

Still, you should expect some losses

[guineawolf]

can't we avoid it?
even when the enemy have no cavalry?????

[Severous]

You need to establish where your retreating men will head for. There is one edge or corner that will go for when you press that little white flag icon.

In multiplayer, when I know I cant win (which is too often) I attempt to retreat as many men as possible rather than admit defeat.

[Whacker]

Key things are control and location. If you're up against an enemy with no cavalry and no arrow/artillery, you should be able to do this with 0 casualties. If they have any of the above, you should expect to take some.

The key thing is to maintain order and formation of your HAs. You also want to identify, as Severous stated, the point on the map that your units will retreat to when ordered to withdraw, it's going to be one of the 8 sides or corners of the map. As a suggestion, try to attack from a flat side, as this gives you more room to manuever with.

When you set up, set up depending on what you're up against. Say you're up against all infantry with no ranged. I'd make a relatively straight line with my HAs, and keep retreating before them as the advance. Keep autofire on and skirmish off. Maintain formation and order. Keep retreating as needed. If you're very lucky, you'll end up killing enough that you can route them all and then you don't have to worry about withdrawing. If you don't, then the best way is to keep retreating towards your extraction point, then at the last minute hit the withdraw command. Make sure your HAs are far enough away from any enemy units so that they won't get caught.

Good luck!

[guineawolf]

How about mutiple different unit?

example: 10 legion,3 cavalry,2 archer auxilia ,i try to put them together at retreat point,then press retreat at the same time.....

but i see that you are saying that it is cause by what unit that enemy have,is it?? or by the unit we have,or both?