I thought this had been addressed recently, but as I am unable to find it in a search through the forum, I will throw the question out point-blank (I’m not sure it got answered straight-up before anyway).
I’m fuzzy on one aspect of the Cautious order: What does the percentage refer to? As in, let’s say I set a ship’s Cautious order to 75%. Does the ship retreat when 75% of its hit points are left, or when it has taken 75% of its hit points in damage? (Or is it some third alternative I haven’t thought of?)
The percentage is the amount of damage the ship takes before retreating. Say you set it to 1%. Then your ship is going to retreat when its hitpoints drop by 1%.