1. I detach a light cav unit from the army and place it aways forward as advance warning
2. Enemy unit shows up and moves to attack
3. I withdraw and enemy unit follows, forcing a move to the Battle Map
Problem - I am unable to exit the Battle Map, I can trot over to the boundary, but can't cross it.
Just had a hussar unit unable to leave behind three infantry battalions - ridiculous.
Tried the Auto Battle Resolution and it showed I lost 13 men, but when game reverted to the Strategic Map, the entire hussar unit was gone. Ridiculous.
Surely there is some way to put out a patrol and not have it be a kamikaze mission? I'm betting I'm missing something really simple
Update
Currently reading Christopher Duffy's Austerlitz, in which he mentions clouds of cavalry performing deep screening operations well in front of the main bodies of le Grande Armee. With my current understanding of NTW mechanics such a strategy would kill off most of the light cavalry performing that mission. There must be a way for this mission to not be a kamikaze.