Annoying battle won criteria

[eds01]

One of the annoying things with playing nomadic factions is that you have to actually rout your opponents to win. If you use an intellegent tactic such as using horse archers fire arrows at the enemy and then withdraw from the battle when they're out of arrows, you lose the battle (dispite inflicting massive casualties and sustaining very few), and your general retreats. Is this behavior hard-coded, or could you change it that if you kill more then x% of the enemy and only sustain y% casualties and withdraw, then it's a draw?

[lobf]

It's hardcoded. And it's just words. The computer can say you lost, but you know that you really didn't. I know it sucks for your stats, but those aren't important if you're not Romani, right?

[tapanojum]

Wont a greater ammount of enemy troops recover if you lose the battle by withdrawing?

[Watchman]

Would sound logical certainly, since they're left in possession of the field and hence can recover their casualties at leisure.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

When I choose to retreat (especially with an all-horse army), I'll sometimes use the character_reset cheat on my army so that they aren't stuck in some stupid place with no movement points. I chose to to retreat, they didn't run for the hills until they couldn't run any more.

[Intranetusa]

Actually with horse archer armies, you might as well just use ur cavalry and charge the enemy after you've used up all your arrows and killed the majority of them. They would be weakened/exhausted to a point where they would rout easily if you surrounded them one by one with horse archers.