rit001

I have an example of just how bad routing troops can be. A routed unit that was just 14 men in size ran for the length of my main battle line, the resut that about 15,000 of my own men and the odd 30 artillery pieces all targeted the near by routing troops rather than the on coming army. This also caused the artillery along the line to withdraw. All in all not a great battle as the on coming battle was able to get a volley off while my units were reloading, and even with all this fire power I did not reduce the head count in the routing unit. I think things could be done to reduce the problem of routing troops, the first maybe as simple as disbanding/remove any unit that routes if its at 5% or less that its original starting strength or smaller that 30 men. This would at least remove small units from the game without having to change other aspects of the game play.