Retreat facing

[Lieste]

I notice a frequent failure of units to retreat when under fire.

A unit comes under fire from the front, and on breaking faces to the rear and then 'retreats' out of cover and into the firing unit. This seldom ends well.

It is possible that it is related to 'fixing' the parent unit facing, rather than leaving it on automatic mode, but I can't confirm this directly - generally the units have no 'reasonable' concept of indian country - often orienting in random directions rather than at any known contacts.
The failure to disengage when retreating/routing causes a lot of casualties and prevents the AI from having the resources it needs to build a second defense line when it abandons the first - I see AI units also retreating 'forwards', but actually watching your own unit updating it's footprint and 'immediate task' line during the retreat shows that it is trying to retreat by moving backwards, and by turning away from the enemy - one or other would work better than both [:D]

[Arjuna]

OK I'll look into it. Do you have a saved game taken just before an occurence of this? If so, please email it to support[at]panthergames[dot]com. Thanks.