This has been changed in g2, and I believe that it works as expected.
In this case, the defender only had pikemen, with a low attack, facing
lots of high-defense guys.
> I say APPEAR because I have no idea of the loss setting of the defender
> [0? 50%? 100%?]. Or if the defending nobles had been set to surrender.
In this case, the loss setting of the defender was 100%, since he lost
100% of his pikemen. BTW, note that 0% is no longer a valid setting.
-- Greg