Army routing with full morale

[athone]

HI

i'm not sure if it's really a bug or some kind of weird design flaw but I've won and lost a couple of battle because one or more flank fled the battle when they full or almost full moral. I had a brave commander just flee after a change in tactic even if he had superior number, almost full moral, was winning and is flank were still strong.
Another time my 3 commander just decided to flee the battlefield at the same time.

It's really frustrating losing fight this way because my army is just shredded for no reason. I could have better everything (commander, troop, terrain advantage) and still lose because of some random event that make my commander flee when clearly they should not as they have more than 90% of their moral.

Is there some tactic combination that could justify this ? Is the morale bar not updating and they actually don't have moral anymore ? It seems to happen in the attack phase but since the situation change really fast it's hard to tell. I would like to tell you what tactic were being use but i cannot because that flank go to pursuit right away.

 

[AndrewT]

Not a tech support issue so moved to main forum. If the community agrees it's likely to be a bug, post in Bug Reports please.

 

[thevmag]

What tactic did your foe use? As frustrating as it is, I've had clashes of nearly equal size or me being bigger that ended up with me turned into confetti within a couple days, all due to the enemy bringing in the right tactics to take advantage of the right troop composition.

Best solutions off the top of my head, without knowing more details, is to find out what troops your foes are using and plan against it, or bring 10k troops to a 2k engagement.

 

[cywang86]

Highly depend on army composition and tech, too.
A mostly light infantry/archer tribal army will be shredded to pieces by a feudal with the same army size.

 

[TehJumpingJawa]

I too have seen flanks of mostly LI collapse from near full morale to zero in a split second.

I didn't study it too much though; just put it down to an unlikely catastrophic combination of tactics.
Though as the composition of the other flanks normally hold up find, it does seem a little peculiar.