1. Fleeing. Could someone please explain how this works to me? I am at war with Hyborem and Sandalphon (I am playing as Charadon/Doviello). They are sending waves of Diseased Corpses at me. I kill most of them, but I would say in about 25% of the battles the damn things are fleeing back into the pile where I cannot get them (no Assassins, but they are on the way). Anyway, what is the deal with these units fleeing? I mean these are the Undead - one of the few units that can stand up to those that produce Fear and not need Courage. I am attacking with the HN Three Stooges, Rangers and Axemen. The Undead are afraid of those units?
2. Fear. I didn't see anything in the .33 Changelog about fixing some problems with Fear and I really think it needs fixin'.
For example, I have Larry, Moe and Curley with each about 200 XP and they cannot take the battle to a simple, summoned Spectre. The same for a Greater Werewolf and even the Baron himself. None can get Courage, so Fear repels them. C'mon, does this make sense to anyone? Maybe Fear should look more at the experience of a unit rather than just the unit type itself. It makes sense that your experienced units would be a lot less prone to Fear on the battlefield than your rookies.
Actually, this caused me a real pain in the butt as I sent the Stooges and a pack of Werewolves to kill Hyborem himself. Combat odds were over 90%. He's toast, right? Uh no. Fear again, and none of these guys would attack.
Please consider fixing this by either (a) allowing ALL units to receive the Courage spell or (b) tying Fear into XP
Lastly, I just had to mention this as it clearly falls into the Wacky AI Department:
Hippus/Rhoanna, of all civs, has gone into shipbuilding mode. The only problem is that for some bizarre reason it is building ships in only two landlocked water tiles. The result is a build-up of 7 (and counting) ships that just sail back and forth, back and forth, etc. in the two water tiles.
Maybe there should be some sort of restriction on shipbuilding when the water tiles are limited???
Just killing time until my birthday - the 16th, and the day .33 will show up in Asia.