I couldn’t find if this was raised before, anyways…
Either I have extremely dumb/suicidal townsfolks or this is a global problem. Every time I got raided, instead of running away, my civilians furiously charge towards raiders to change their minds in the last second and start to run away randomly, most of the time trough the whole raider column. This has a lot of variations, one of my ‘favorite’ is civilian(s) pushing trough 50 raiders storming the gate just to run trough keep and pushing trough another 20 raiders storming the opposite gate to run… I don’t even know where.
The bottom line is, the number of civilians dying due to such suicidal stupidity is waaay higher than what one can attribute to simulation of crowd’s panic movement. No amount of panic make dozens of people run straight trough the attacking army.
I imagine solving this problem is tricky as any AI balancing is, but hopefully something can be done about this 