Disappearing armies

[unmerged(6006)]

(Ubisoft 1.05) I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but a few times I've lost an entire army following a lost battle - it seems to happen later in the GC rather than during early years. Each time, the battle's been quite closely matched (even forces and morale), I had a large force (showing 20-30+ on the unit graphic), and it had a perfectly sensible place to retreat to. Yet, when it lost the battle, it simply disappeared, without even the "total destroyed" message you sometimes get when you lose an army on an island or a small one goes and dies etc. Another time I lost 150 unaccompanied artillery the same way, which seems a bit more realistic, I guess. But since when did 30000 troops all go and die - even in the worst battles casualty rates weren't much above 25%, surely?

 

[kurtbrian]

I think complete destruction could happen if you lost with an all infantry army against cavalry.

 

[AndrewT]

All 30,000 troops weren't slaughtered, it means the army ceases to exist as a fighting force. The rest deserted, were injured, or othewise could or would not fight for you any more.

 

[DPS]

Normally, when an army is completely lost, you get a message that your forces in such-and-such province has be annilhlated. I think the bug here is that sometimes, you don't get that message.

 

[unmerged(6006)]

Yes, I'd come to the conclusion that the bug was no message, as well as complete destruction in unlikely (and unreasonable!) circumstances. It only seems to happen in the later 1700s - anyone else noticed the same?