Unbreakable morale for enemy...?

[stwn]

as above.

three thousand men surrounded two hundred enemy carthaginians. easy right?

nope.

twenty minutes later despite them being surrounded all the time and not having many chevrons, they've lost 10 men (despite being SURROUNDED by 10x their number and being constantly charged by cavalry in open rear / flank!) and have routed half my army. what the hell?

is this bugged? is this INTENTIONAL?

[thomas_r]

What is your difficulty level ?
what are YOUR troops and THE troops in front of you ?

[stwn]

All the troops surrounding the enemy were principes with 2-3 chevrons and triarii, the cavalry units charging them were the heavy socii cavalry, the enemy on the other hand were 1x scutarii mercenaries and 1x dorkiim lybim.

[TFCAliarcy]

Are you using the Ancient Empires submod or is your difficulty higher than normal? If it is the former you may post it on their page in the submods section and it might get seen, if it is the latter then I will inform you that battles in DEI are not meant to be played on difficulty higher than normal as it screws up balance.

[stwn]

Not using ancient empires, but a question about difficulty - do you mean the game difficulty you set when making a new campaign?

[KAM 2150]

Either to high difficulty level or mod conflict, those units can be routed even without flanking and rear attacks, especially if rest of the army is dead.

[FlashHeart07]

You can set campaign difficulty and battle difficulty separately. Before beginning a new campaign you set the campaign difficulty after the campaign has loaded you go to the game options menu and set the battle difficulty to normal. Battles will be balanced and you will still experience a slightly more aggressive AI due to the campaign difficulty.
Anything above normal will add huge bonuses to the AI.

[stwn]

that worked. cheers!

[zonks40]

that worked. cheers!

Not only the above, but I think only 9 nearby enemy units are taken into consideration for the purpose of Morale penalties.