I found myself in the situation where an invading force was on the other side of a bridge while I attacked him.
I moved 2 units of militia spearman on the bridge, followed by 2 units of archers. This provoked my enemy in sending 2 separate charges of horse units, which they bravely withstood and routed.
Then I wanted to move the spearmen further along the bridge so I selected them both and rightclicked a further away section of the bridge. However, they started to move in the opposite direction, away from the enemy! Oddly, shouting at the screen and pointing didn't alleviate this problem.
In the end I got one of the units to get where he was supposed to but the other one took a lot longer which led to the first unit being routed.
(in the end I won a good victory, not in the last part because of one particular brave norse war cleric that had lost all of its comrades but didn't route and received a gold chevron because of it)
Why did these spearmen walk in the wrong direction and how should I have pointclicked to prevent that?
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