The Turks are definitely my favorite civ!... in Age 3.
My favorite civs in Aoe2 used to be the Teutons and the Vikings, mainly because my ancestors on one side
were actually Teutons and Vikings, but when I first installed The Conquerors, the Huns kind of took over as my new official civ. (Actually I have some Hungarian ancestry on the other side, so possibly I have some Hun ancestors. Or maybe Magyar...
). Really though, the fact that they don't need houses was a bit more interesting to me than ancestry.
My 400-something halberdiers failed last night.
I'm beginning to notice a problem in the way my men fight; when I move them up in formation and order them to attack, half of them go, and half of them freeze for a second, and then waddle around like confused penguins, not even fighting the enemies who are chasing/attacking them. Some even go the other direction. My men got slaughtered by a force half their number because of this; the enemy would finish off one group that was actually fighting, and then go on to the others that weren't.
Have you ever had this happen? Do you know what causes it?