Quote Originally Posted by war is hell View Post
True, but on the computer battlefield we are not just simulating the role of commander, we are simulating the role of the unit officers who acted on there own initiative once the pieces were set in motion...
I suppose, but in any case it's hard to make any comparisons to how battles were really fought and how we fight them in EB, since the RTW battle system is simply a RTS 'version' of ancient battles.

I'm not sure about the unit officers idea either, I can't imagine that if there were unit officers for each unit, that they would have significant influence over what that unit did, apart from maybe keeping order in ranks.

I reckon these officers acting on their own initiative would only happen in the case of emergency, for example if the commander was killed or fled, or if the battle was clearly a losing one.

But anyway, part of the reason I love EB and RTW so much is because we don't fully know how battles worked or how men communicated on the battlefield (with exceptions, like Caesar's descriptions etc.), and that's why ima keep playing it