THAT guy deserved the Coward Trait

[Silius Saurus]

OK, so I'm in one of my favorite parts of the Roman campaign - the struggle over Hispania vs. The Gallaci and the Carthaginians. Loads of enemies, stacks upon stacks. I have 5 legions in the invasion, with an army of Greeks (Athenians, Corinthians etc.) enroute to join the fun.

I'm in a furball with the Carthaginians, and even before the battle is 1/3 decided, the enemy general (a four star one @ that) turns tail and runs....leaving his whole army to get slaughtered.

Yet, he doesn't earn the coward trait. I sent a spy to find out, and he didn't. That one deserves a "shameful coward" trait with a huge penalty.

Not sure if it would work with the scripts or not, but it was pretty shocking. I almost felt sorry for his men. Almost...

[Ferdiad]

Theres a percent chance, you got lucky it seems.

It's in

export_descr_character_traits

[Chris Death]

I haven't yet seen a single unit of an army leaving the battlefield seperately - are you sure about that?

The only chance of having an event to look like this would be: the whole army decides to leave the battlefield
exactly that moment you engaged them and the only enemy unit you didn't engage was their general.

~S~ CD

[Silius Saurus]

No, the battle lines were in contact, the enemy general was some ways back (where he should be), then he and 2 or 3 other units turned about and legged it.

[ISA Gunner]

That means he knew there was little chance of victory and withdrew. The AI does that sometimes in a battle but usually it tries to withdraw all of its units, other than ones engaged in combat.

[Chris Death]

You didn't mention before those other units leaving the field aswell however it's the
same scenario i described - everything that isn't engaged that moment when the
whole army wants to retreat will do so - those who are engaged will sure not turn
their backs at you but once you release them they would.

Also it can happen with a reinforcing army arriving at the battlefield and just when
they're all there they decide to turn around to have a cup of tea or so. They even
do that when they are marked with a fight to death sign at the pre-battle screen
which basically means they don't exist anymore once the battle is over.

That way stupid ai has stolen me a lot of heroic victories and the post-battle speech
was something along: you've won even if it was only a close victory - or so.

:edit - ISA Gunner beat me to it but only because i had much more to say - hehe

~S~ CD

[Ferdiad]

It happens all the time for me, I guess my 3gold chevroned all elite army with a reborn Alexander the Great is too much for them

[DarthLazy]

Not when the general is the first to die he dosent get away....Most of the time.