Withdrawal from battlefield

[MikagaMi]

Hi guyz, I have a question on withdrawing.

I was attacking a greek city when a thousand reinforcement arrived... total of 1300. I withdrew, on the campaign map till I couldn't do so. Then I was thinking of withdrawing at the battlefield.

Why issit that I can't withdraw from the battlefield? The withdrawal button was not active

[Marcus Scaurus]

Did you have enough movement points when you started the battle? If you're out of movement points, it's impossible to withdraw.

[Shaun]

Yeah, its a pain geting attacked when its impossible to withdraw.

[Hader]

It sucks not being able to withdraw, so you will just have to stand and fight. Sometimes, I like to save whatever troops I can, so I just try to get my men to rout so they can 'withdraw' from the battle. Only seems to work well with generals though.

[HappeR]

If withdrawal isn't possible for me on the battlefield I usually stand and fight. Sometimes my troops do a lot of damage, or even get a heroic victory over an enemy superior in troop quality, numbers and command stars of the general.

[Marcus Scaurus]

If you can't flee, make sure your troops are near the red line, so the enemy doesn't have loads of time to kill your routed units.