Armies

[gusbots]

I'm fairly new to napoleon, is there a way to ensure after the battle, the enemy army guy on the map dies, too?

[Aymer de Valence]

You need to literally obliterate their army during a battle. Run down as many of their fleeing men as possible.

It's annoying, but even letting a few men escape means the 'man on the campaign map' will live to fight another day - or more likely, destroy a few more of your farms.

[Steph]

Keep some cavalry in reserve, and use it to slaughter fleeing units.

[Didz]

The other option is to follow up and attack the weakened enemy army again (in the same turn). It cannot retreat twice and you can just auto-resolve and destroy it completely.

[ordoprinceps]

I enjoy running down the fleeing enemy with my light Cav. If you fail to get them all then follow the advice Didz gave. I like running them down though. I try to keep 4 to five cav units in each army. One or two fast and light, one medium and two heavy's. The heavy's come in real handing if you positions are being overrun. I think the game is geared to have the most fun as the French but I have been playing the Austrians a lot lately. At first I didn't like the Austrian standard Cav but now I like them a lot.