I was playing a Gallic campaign on RTW this morning, and something pretty hilarious happened that I've never seen happen before.
The situation was, I was fighting the Romans in Spain, on the bridge southeast of Numantia, as the defender. Most of the battle went pretty normally. My troops surrounded the Romans on my end of the bridge, it was touch and go for a bit, but in the end we pulled through and won. So, as my cavalry are chasing the Romans across the bridge to mop up the runaways, I notice that one of my units is rapidly decreasing in numbers. Thinking that a Roman cavalry unit must have slipped past me somehow, I go to look, and what do I find? A whole warband unit is, inexplicably, just running straight into the river and drowning themselves. I quickly ordered them to run back up on land, and about 30 of them made it out of the water, out of the 90 or so that were originally in the unit. If this was happening earlier in the battle and to a more important unit, I might have found it less funny, but it was so bizarre I couldn't help but laugh. In addition to the inherent weirdness that it happened at all, there's the fact that the battle was already basically over, the infantry had no missions left to complete, because i'd told them to stop once the Romans mass-routed so that they'd stay out of the way of the cavalry. So this unit, after being stopped and doing nothing for several seconds, randomly decided to just run straight into the river and drown themselves. I have no idea why they did it. I've been playing this game for 5 years, done countless bridge battles, and i've never seen that happen before.
Not in a river anyway. There was one time, long ago, where I was engaged in a siege battle and my army was fighting on a wall, and after the enemy troops broke and went into "fighting to the death" mode, they suddenly began to jump off the wall one at a time. One would just run straight to the edge and jump, then another, and so on. Again, it was so bizarre I was just cracking up. That only ever happened once.
Anybody else ever had this happen?
The situation was, I was fighting the Romans in Spain, on the bridge southeast of Numantia, as the defender. Most of the battle went pretty normally. My troops surrounded the Romans on my end of the bridge, it was touch and go for a bit, but in the end we pulled through and won. So, as my cavalry are chasing the Romans across the bridge to mop up the runaways, I notice that one of my units is rapidly decreasing in numbers. Thinking that a Roman cavalry unit must have slipped past me somehow, I go to look, and what do I find? A whole warband unit is, inexplicably, just running straight into the river and drowning themselves. I quickly ordered them to run back up on land, and about 30 of them made it out of the water, out of the 90 or so that were originally in the unit. If this was happening earlier in the battle and to a more important unit, I might have found it less funny, but it was so bizarre I couldn't help but laugh. In addition to the inherent weirdness that it happened at all, there's the fact that the battle was already basically over, the infantry had no missions left to complete, because i'd told them to stop once the Romans mass-routed so that they'd stay out of the way of the cavalry. So this unit, after being stopped and doing nothing for several seconds, randomly decided to just run straight into the river and drown themselves. I have no idea why they did it. I've been playing this game for 5 years, done countless bridge battles, and i've never seen that happen before.
Not in a river anyway. There was one time, long ago, where I was engaged in a siege battle and my army was fighting on a wall, and after the enemy troops broke and went into "fighting to the death" mode, they suddenly began to jump off the wall one at a time. One would just run straight to the edge and jump, then another, and so on. Again, it was so bizarre I was just cracking up. That only ever happened once.
Anybody else ever had this happen?