Does the entire unit literally drop dead simultaneously, or just die very fast? If the battle was ending, and the enemy had to fight to the death or win, this might occur. They can fall in the water and drown, but should not fall over dead simply because they rout. What patch are you playing? Any mods installed? Let's see if it happens after a day or two when the new Patch 1.5/1.6 is out.

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actuelly that's what they do +-two seconds after the route started.
I had it happen through all different patches. (I've played RTW from the moment it just got in stores)
I almost never have the enemy fight to dead. "Let them run and chase them" is my motto.

Only all factions mod installed

Can anyone else comment with first-hand knowledge on this? I have not seen it myself, but I have not had bridge battles under the same circumstances evidently, or maybe I just missed it, and assumed my units did the killing with out knowing the 'drop dead' was occurring. My intent in 90% of my bridge battles is to destroy all the enemy forces, and it is usually a challenge to cut off all the escapees... so my attention is often not in the bridge area in the waning parts of such a battle where my infantry/archers are still comfortably banging heads sometimes.

I'm still not clear on something: When the units drop dead, does the battle end at that point? Or does the battle continue, but there is a steaming new pile of corpses where 2 seconds ago there were fighting enemy soldiers? Have you seen it happen to archers? Do you recall just what kinds of infantry specifically died (e.g., warband? phalanx?).

I know that I have routed and chased enemy Phalanx from the bridge without them droping dead with Patch 1.2, totally stock (no mods at all). But I don't recall specifics on others.