To Flee or not to Flee....

[Sarvi]

In Tribes o.t. East the enemy heroes tend to flee much more often, especially on HARD or HEROIC difficulty. Sometimes they don't even fire a shot before they go! In doing this the AI hero loses all his army and then has to rebuild - yes, he keeps his hero, but the hero is a sitting duck now for several weeks. In my opinion this makes the game a lot easier to win than the Hammers of Fate version.
Any comments?

[Mirez]

yeah it's anoyying

like when I'm chilling, trying to get all mines and stuff and suddenly the enemy attacks with an army quite a lot bigger
with castle defending advantage I'm able to beat it, then I go further with mines, artifacts etc. etc. (you know the fun part)
then when I'm fighting him my army is quite a lot stronger because I build capitol before level 7 dwelling and I got mines before attacking etc.
anyways since my army is stronger he flee's without even trying to scratch my army and from then It's just a matter of walking to his castle no challenge whatsoever

[HOMMV_N00B]

yeah it's anoyying

like when I'm chilling, trying to get all mines and stuff and suddenly the enemy attacks with an army quite a lot bigger
with castle defending advantage I'm able to beat it, then I go further with mines, artifacts etc. etc. (you know the fun part)
then when I'm fighting him my army is quite a lot stronger because I build capitol before level 7 dwelling and I got mines before attacking etc.
anyways since my army is stronger he flee's without even trying to scratch my army and from then It's just a matter of walking to his castle no challenge whatsoever

But don't you loose a very big portion of you army to? And do you always get back to your town in time?