Leave my dead troops alone

[Elmo J Muppet]

I was fighting a battle in my Julii campaign, with my legionnaries in a solid block absorbing fire from a Pontus army, when one battered unit made a break for it and was quickly run down by cavalry. So far, so routine.

The unit was flattened by the cavalry charge, and most of the cavalry then withdrew, but seven or eight clustered round one of the dead Romans and started stabbing and hacking at him. When they showed no sign of stopping I zoomed in closer. Apparently they were attacking a unit of 'Hastati (0) Dead'. I'll bet he was- he's been hit repeatedly with a number of swords for about 30 seconds. Doesn't really explain why it was happening though. This went on for a minute or two until I got angry with the computer and chased the cavalry off. The mysterious 'dead' unit didn't appear any more.

Obviously it wasn't a major problem, but I thought it was a bit unusual. It was quite atmospheric though- it's been a long, unpleasant war with Pontus and it looked like they were venting some of their anger on that soldier.

Has anything like this happened to anyone else?

[Elmo J Muppet]

Oops. I wrote this post halfway through the battle. When I resumed it, I managed to find the dead unit again, and learned that they were feeling 'unhappy over taking (becoming?) casualties'. They weren't attacked again, though.

[SSJVegetaTrunks]

XD

Never happened to me before.

[Charge]

I had kind of that with war dogs...

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Was it a night battle? If so, apparently the Pontics weren't using wooden stakes......

[ciprianrusu]

I had a similar problems with ghostly wardogs. I was Brutii, and was fighting in the civil war whit Julii. I whipped out one of my enemies wardog unit, but, when close to the end of the battle, one of my unit of Equites was chasing down enemies routing units, out of nowhere, appeared this unit of ghost wardogs (0 units, translucid dogs), and started to mown down on my horses. I couldn't kill them either, because they were down to 0 troops. .Strange day that was. And my general wasn't even drunk then.