Shattered Retreat

[pconners]

Please for the love of all that is holy: give us an option to turn off shattered retreat.

I've never understood why this is the default in your games, it's a terrible mechanic. It's not remotely realistic and in gameplay terms it's awful. If it's one of your armies it's highly frustrating waiting while your army retreats uncontrollably across countries and continents (the army replenishes but apparently not one of those reinforcements can carry a message saying hey maybe stop running away), and if it's enemy it's similarly frustrating having to chase them (while they also become ghosts incapable of being intercepted).

 

[Chairman Noob]

Maybe there could be three options for shattered retreat: Normal, Off and Disbandment, with the third automatically disbanding defeated armies. That way you at least wouldn't have to wait for the army to arrive on the other side of your (or your neighbour's) realm.