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Simple question, let's say I have an army with 5 legions inside. 4 legions have 100 % health and 1 legion has all of its elements wounded. When I order this army to attack, do I first have to manually remove the damaged legion from it or will the leader be clever enough to keep this legion out of battle unless necessary?

I think if they stay in the same region and you don't put your damagend legion into a structure they will still engage the enemy no matter if they are within your main force or not!

Place in reserve. Possible?

theoretically yes, put the damaged legion in blue-xxx/green-xxx order and the rest in at least orange or red. only if the major stack is destroyed the damaged legion should fight.
however, as cwegsche pointed out, at least ALL forces are shown in the battle screen, even in structures or fleets.

i am not sure but if AIE doesnt differ, the good troops will attack the good troops first. if this works that way, the damaged legion is only second wave.

Thanks for prompt reply

So if I understand this correctly, as long as there are enough good legions to attack the good enemy troops I can safely leave the damaged legion in the stack because the commander will be clever enough not to use it against a powerful enemy formation (unless there aren't enough friendly units remaining)?

bob. wrote:So if I understand this correctly, as long as there are enough good legions to attack the good enemy troops I can safely leave the damaged legion in the stack because the commander will be clever enough not to use it against a powerful enemy formation (unless there aren't enough friendly units remaining)?

No, you are the commander. If i havent forgotten any mechanism, the way i answered him, it would be at least possible to build not fighting reserves (if used green order, they would also be a prime target for receiving replacements).
i cant tell if the leaders in game are that clever, but that the engine can differ between a priority target and a secondary target. if his happens in AIE, there is a high chance that any element with low strength and low cohesion is considered a secondary target.

they would fight, but only if other elements are already gone. however, the way i described above (different stack, different order) might give you some advantages (cohesion back, eventually replacements)

Thanks for the explanation. I was just wondering because I was fighting multiple battles like that (4 perfectly healthy legions - 1-2 badly damaged ones with only 1 health remaining on some elements) and never actually lost any elements from the badly damaged legions even though I lost quite some "hearts" in the battles. But maybe I was just lucky

There are safeguards mechanism, you were not specially lucky