Im not a newbie, Im an "old" vet in STW and MI and know how to handle units. I just played an ugly battle on hard, SP.
My army:
8 swisspikemen
4 arbs
2 arqu
2 chiv. knights
Enemy army:
spearmen
archers
crossbowmen
1 ballista
militia sergants
urban militia
The 2nd type of spearmen (dont know their name)
mounted sergants
royalknights
I had superior units. I had more tech-upgrades, weapon and armour upgrades, more valour and a better general pluz I defended on a hill.
The enemy were twice as many then me, but b4 the second wave of enemy came I had routed.
This was my setup:
2 pikemen on each side as flankdefens
4 pikemen in front to hold charging enemy
the shooters I had in 2 columns 3 rows, the arqs were the first row.
The shooters shot down all incoming cav so they routed. But the spearmen kept on comming. so I charged with my 4 front pikes the spears. The fight took long time. I saw this milita sergant flanking my unit so I send down one of the rite flank units to intercept (or how u spell it) but that unit beat my pikes. I succeded to rout the enemy anyway. And when I looked at my pikes (5 units) they all had below 40 men in each. The spearmen and urbans and the milita serg. beat all my men b4 they routed. I send my cav after the enemy 1 of my cav got stopped by archers and crossbowmen. and the other was stopped by mounted sergants. My cav should have run over the archers and crossbowmen easily. And the other should have smacked the mounted serg.
I regrouped on my hill and it started to rain. Then the 2nd attack in the first wave came. It was only units with few men in. I send down my 2 fresh unit of pikes from the left flank (didnt use them in the first attack. The other pikes i placed infront of my shooters. the arqs were useless now but i kept them where they were. The enemy litteraly ran thru my fresh pikes making them rout which become a chainrout and I lost.
The only real fight I could c was the one between my pike vs a militia sergeant the rest of the fights were a mess couldnt c which unit fighing each other.
B4 the MS routed they killed 68 of the pikes and only lost 27. How could that b???
I killed 967 men and lost 824.
Now I wonder how my high tech-more valour-better weapon-better armour men-with a better general could lose like that???
Anyone with a good anser???
I know that the enemy didnt have more then 2 in valour on the units with most valour and that they didnt have any weapon and armour upgrades cuz i had spies in the territorys.
Thanks for any help
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[This message has been edited by TheViking (edited 10-10-2002).]
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