I will certainly change my point of view if you, or any other participant, provide 2 saves where the same Dessa can run 1 or 2 cells further in one case, and 1 or 2 cells less in the second, with the same starting army!
I made a map. Launched it. Found Dessa with 1 goblin. Ran, remembered the spot.
Started the map over. Found Dessa with one goblin again. Ran. The path turned out to be shorter than the previous one (in both cases I was running along the road).
But I restarted the map, rather than loading a save.
It didn't work from a single save; Dessa moves identically (maybe I didn't check enough)
And I noticed something strange: When you hire Dessa with orcs, she sometimes stops at a spot where she stopped without orcs, and sometimes she doesn't reach that spot.:confused: :confused: :confused: