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    Default The Long March - ridiculously long retreat?

    I was beseiging Carthage with a small Camillan era Roman army (3/4 stack of hastatis, principes, and triari) when I was attacked and defeated by a full stack Carthaginian relief army and half stack army from the city.

    Then my army retreated the distance approximately equal to cavalry movement points of 6-8 turns. The army retreated to a naval fleet that was blockading a port on the edges of Egypt.

    So basically my army retreated from the Carthage capital to my fleet near the Egyptian border in one turn!
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    Default Re: The Long March - ridiculously long retreat?

    You're lucky they didn't just disperse.


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    Default Re: The Long March - ridiculously long retreat?

    Well it seems that they run for their lives, trying to reach the nearest friendly location. It happens frequently in my campaign that defeated armies retreat long distances, marching to friendly territory. And if you had not that fleet at hand the army would have been wiped out.

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    Default Re: The Long March - ridiculously long retreat?

    Well no, because I used manual retreat for my units that had not routed, so about 40-50% of my army had escaped intact. Even if there wasn't a fleet there, I think they just would've retreated backwards, but not nearly as far.
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    Default Re: The Long March - ridiculously long retreat?

    Silly RTW mechanics.
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    Default Re: The Long March - ridiculously long retreat?

    if there haden't been a fleet there, would they have marched all around the eastern med and the black sea, then down through the balklnas and into italy?

    Would be impresive...
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    Mao is proud of your soldiers.
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    Default Re: The Long March - ridiculously long retreat?

    Quote Originally Posted by Intranetusa
    I was beseiging Carthage with a small Camillan era Roman army (3/4 stack of hastatis, principes, and triari) when I was attacked and defeated by a full stack Carthaginian relief army and half stack army from the city.

    Then my army retreated the distance approximately equal to cavalry movement points of 6-8 turns. The army retreated to a naval fleet that was blockading a port on the edges of Egypt.

    So basically my army retreated from the Carthage capital to my fleet near the Egyptian border in one turn!
    That's indeed completely ridiculous.

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    Default Re: The Long March - ridiculously long retreat?

    As I am a bit messy with my campaign mgmt. every now and then, I sometimes forget about the beaten & fleeing...so 50 yrs. later I wonder: Where the heck do these fellaws come from? Right in the middle of nowhere? Hmmmmm
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