Tell me about it. The first real battle Occitan fights in all of strat 6, they lose, then ragesquit (run away, white flag, full capitulation). You'd think they didn't realize they were playing a medieval war game but instead that it was real life. War last all of 4 days (most of that fierce forum declarations of how they were going to stomp us).
To be fair it kind of reminds me of previous strats fighting them, I think they only ever played for the trading simulator aspects.