Maybe instead of the losing side losing almost everything, just have the losing side take about 50%-75% losses. In a battle about a month ago, my army consisting of around 500k OP lost and returned with only 20k OP. In my opinion, this was a little extreme. Maybe change this so the losing army doesn't take as heavy of losses.

Ideally in a real world situation, if an army sees they are out manned, they would retreat instead of fighting to the last man.  It is unreasonable to expect an attacker would lose their entire army in a raid.

Now defending is a different story, typically an army defending a city has no where to retreat to.  So, total loss might be understandable.

Loromir said:

Ideally in a real world situation, if an army sees they are out manned, they would retreat instead of fighting to the last man.  It is unreasonable to expect an attacker would lose their entire army in a raid.

 

Now defending is a different story, typically an army defending a city has no where to retreat to.  So, total loss might be understandable.

True but in terms of gameplay, that may be a little too much. Who would want to defend if they might lose every troop they had outside of the acropolis? Defending and attacking should be balanced. It's already extremely hard to solo defend. Defending is basically a team oriented strategy. The losses in failed attacks and defenses should be balanced. I don't mean in the same battle of course. I'm not saying that if the attacker losses 50% of their army then so should the defender, i'm saying that regardless of side, the army that losses should always suffer around the same percentage of troops.

Basileus Leonidas, you made the update which made battles more fair but you haven't explained what exactly you did. If you see this, please inform us on the specific changes to battle calculations.

Spartan206, you may find details here (click on the link).