[1.20] Units retreat when nothing is happening.

[shippo kitsune]

Hey everyone. I just played my first game, Me and a human VS 2 easy comps which went on for three hours until we won. I loved it , the game was amazing. The only problem was that sometimes I would send two or three riflemen squads to cap a place where no Axis were at, but then they would get there, start un-capping the point, then when it was half way through they would suddenly retreat back to base... No Axis units/buildings were around them, not artillery around them..

[Victrix Legio]

This was most likely one of the Axis comps using Propaganda War on your squads, a terror doctrine ability that forces retreat of enemy units wherever it is targeted.

[Suffocate]

What you encountered was the Axis terror tree ability 'Propoganda'. It retreats enemy units when activated in a small radius.

Edit: Too fast.

[shippo kitsune]

Ah, alright. Is there any way to counter that? Or is it just an abbility.. I never used axis, only had one game. (Played the single player demo before MP Beta, though.)

[Emberstrife]

Propaganda has a very small cooldown and can be cast anywhere the Axis players can see, and there is no way to counter it, aside from making sure the axis player doesn't have the 100 munitions to use it...