RS Horse Archers ai issue

[Simplycomplex]

I've been playing as Armenia and the Sarmatians lately and really enjoying the horse archers. Alas, after conquering the steppes, and Anatolia(with my Sarmatians) my horse archers all the sudden got retarded and overly eager against Macedonia.

Against Pontics/Armenia/Pergamum they always performed well, kept their distance, and I would retreat them once they were out of arrows(not retreat off field). Now however they will start up their Cantabarian(sp?) circle and randomly stop mid-circle and stay in that formation but not move. Or if they do move they move backwards so slowly that even phalanxes catch up with them(which they never had issues with before).

Any ideas? I went into a battle with almost a full stack of horse archers and heavy horsemen(nobles) against a Macedonian army of comparable size(should be easy victory) and lost 50% of my army to phalanxes that the horse archers sort of just walked into, and then refused to back off from.

HELP!

[Tesla]

I don't think I have had the same problem, however I did find it annoying sometimes to control an HA army. Sometimes when I had the Skirmish mode ON they would run Towards the enemy or right beside them and then one of them would get 'clipped' and then they all would turn around to fight the enemy.

The way I got around this was to Disable Skirmish mode let them go to another location and then activate it again. Also sometimes turning Guard mode on and off seems to help how they respond and react

[Leonidas42]

turn skirmish mode off. i've had that problem before too. that should solve yoru problem.

[Akritoi]

To be honest I had the same problem with some Velites when facing a Gallic army. They, rather bravely I felt, charged headlong into a full battle line up and then promptly routed. It was a bit like drummer boy from the original release of ETW.

They didn't make the same mistake twice.