Congratulations! You've Cornered and Killed Your Own Commander...

[Burnside_]

It's been a little while since I played CKII so this issue/problem may have already been duly noted, but I've noticed an issue cropping up with my commanders. After a battle, one occasionally receives a notification that reads thus: "In the chaos of battle, your men have managed to corner ________! He resisted bravely before they slew him." The problem I've been encountering is this: my commanders who are being cornered and killed by my own men. Is this a known issue with a fix or are my men just shooting into the wrong goal?

 

[Zooboss]

I think it's an issue where it's accidentally sending you the message of killing the commander when it should have gone to whoever it is you were fighting.

 

[Mach Twelve]

In my ironman game, I killed my skilled son while fighting the filthy German Lollards in the Crusade for Italy, I got a kingdom out of it though, so that was nice.

 

[Zolotaya]

If you were the ERE/Byzantines I'd think this is WAD ...

In all seriousness it should be reported in the bug subforum if it had not yet been reported there.

 

[TheDungen]

No things like this are totally unheard of that's why we have a strange screenshots thread that's 882 pages long.

 

[CVDE]

Happen to my brother who was leading my army.( Truth be told I did want him did, just didnt want to do it myself )

 

[MartinSWE]

Pretty sure it´s a known bug and I think Zooboss is right.

 

[Mithrantir]

I have the impression it might not be a bug. People that are dying usually are either rivals or your character (or someone he likes a lot) gains something from it. After all during a battle is the perfect setting for "accidents" to happen.

 

[KelrynGrey]

I think it's an issue where it's accidentally sending you the message of killing the commander when it should have gone to whoever it is you were fighting.

That actually makes a lot of sense.

 

[John Locke]

Yes. It's a bug. An annoying one. I had quite a few very good commanders killed that way.

 

[Don_giorgio]

Well maybe the late commander was too annoying even for his own men and they killed him in the heat of battle to get rid of him.

 

[Sunspawn]

Sounds like the way Bridgeburners deal with bad officers.

 

[John Locke]

This bug has existed for a very long time, I'm surprised no patch ever addressed it. It happened again to me today, I had a very good, young, promising Duke "cornered and killed, congrats" on the field of an unimportant battle. Well...okay...

That's the beauty of this game, it gets on your effing nerves sometimes. Because that happened just after my own wife, whom I loved dearly, had my close friend and spymaster murdered.

 

[TehJumpingJawa]

This bug has existed for a very long time, I'm surprised no patch ever addressed it. It happened again to me today, I had a very good, young, promising Duke "cornered and killed, congrats" on the field of an unimportant battle. Well...okay...

That's the beauty of this game, it gets on your effing nerves sometimes. Because that happened just after my own wife, whom I loved dearly, had my close friend and spymaster murdered.

When in actuality it was your close friend and spymaster who intended to kill your wife

 

[John Locke]

Well, she should have known better. I locked her in a dungeon (she was unfaithful), then got a divorce, then I banished her. I was curious to see where she would go, since she is from my kingdom. She went to Rome...Probably to enact revenge on the Pope

 

[Mike Louis]

I would roleplay it as the commanders in question being killed by their own soldiers for being either too ambitious, gung ho, or a overly strict disciplinarian.

 

[aono]

I would roleplay it as the commanders in question being killed by their own soldiers for being either too ambitious, gung ho, or a overly strict disciplinarian.

And I'd say medieval combat wasn't the best one with distincting allies from enemies.
Something like this: "1471 - During the Battle of Barnet a Lancastrian force under the Earl of Oxford was fired on by the Lancastrian centre while returning from a pursuit; their banner, Oxford's “star with rays” had been mistaken for the Yorkist “sun in splendour”. This gave rise to cries of treachery, (always a possibility in that chaotic period), Lancastrian morale collapsed, and the battle was lost."

 

[alscon]

That's some necro.

As an answer, the commander has always been killed by your opponent, only the notification was wrong. As of Reaper's, either it has been fixed or I've been lucky.

 

[RX2000]

Its probably related to the bug (or maybe its the same bug) where you can look at how someone died & it will say they died in battle against themselves. Like you are looking at King John's portrait & you hover over the skull icon & it says "Killed in battle against King John on July 7, 799."

Thats annoying also. Kills immersion for me.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

This bug has existed....

..and got patched and fixed in the last patch, as far as i recall.
(edit)

- Rulers will no longer be informed of killing their own commanders

Answer on question about this line and what bug that was..

IIRC at some point when a commander died in battle their liege was listed as the killer instead of the owner of the enemy forces. Not even sure if it was in a public version.

....,unless of course if you play on an older patch or the fixed bug isn't the one most people and me refer to when they talk about it.

..and DO NOT NECRO, please....or the plague will get you, i suppose...
Thanks.

edit: ..and if this did indeed happen to you on 2.6.1x , then a new thread with a link to this one would have been better IMHO.
Cheers