Post Heroic - Big Famous Battles

[Thaatu]

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'Nuff said.

[Treverer]

@ Thaatu:

good you choose not stop posting!

Yours,
Treverer

[mAIOR]

Nice presentation... I'm in awe!
Very cinematic!!!
Kudos to you sir!


Cheers...

[tapanojum]

Wow hhahaha

[Sygrod]

This one really should have been heroic.

I had a unit of Chalkaspides, freshly recruited, on their way to join an army sent to take Trapezous (south shore of Black Sea), when it was attacked by a mobile force of Eleutheroi - 4 Eastern Skirmishers and 4 Caucasian archers - 1601 men against my 243. When I managed to make contact with these elusive critters, my chalkaspides took some hits from behind by archers, but slugged on. When the enemy finally broke, the unit was down to 70 fighting men, but they had gained 2 chevrons in this battle. They slew 1186 enemies. too bad it was not listed as heroic, since it was nothing short of a heroic effort.

[Maksimus]

Thaatu... you are one wicked EB I say... that is very, very, inspireing for me

[ajdeignan]

Finally managed to work out how to post screenshots - I think.

Shows what happens when you master the art of knowing where to pick your fights (and I don't mean bridges).

I play VH/M.

Saw 2 large Arveni armies in my territory (3300 + 1700; good quality troops), so I went up the steepest mountain and waited for them to attack.

By the time they reached my legion (1200), they were all exhausted. The enemy general charged by himself (must have been very impetuious). Once he fell, both enemy armies almost shattered, so I charged simultaneously with everything I had (instant rout).

Final kill ratio 64:1, 4503 dead for 70 of my own (the boys had sore arms that night).



This was followed 2 seconds later by a CTD (I almost cried). Replayed the game 10 times; CTD every time (only EB can break your heart that bad).

[delablake]

now that's what I call a real massacre...just wonder why the troops didn't get more experience...but anyway:
hats off to Thaatu!!!

[Palasta]

now that's what I call a real massacre...just wonder why the troops didn't get more experience...but anyway:
hats off to Thaatu!!!

I think it's because rooting enemies are less exp-points worth.



btw: nice presentation! @Thaatu

[sanitarium]

I suppose I may as well post one of my heroic wins here. I don't know if it really counts, because I got a CTD after the battle ended.



Unfortunately, this is the only screenshot I thought to take. It still pains me to know this win didn't really count.

[Maksimus]

Unfortunately, this is the only screenshot I thought to take. It still pains me to know this win didn't really count.

Of.. It count's here, as far as I would say

I had like 10 CTD after some long no-limit battle that was Heroic..

but what can you do

[Maksimus]

After my last post here I havent played a single campaign
Now that I have started a new one.. well.. I must post some Heroic

[Hax]

Well, they called it an average, but I call it a Heroic.



THIS!

IS!

ALEX-AN-DREIAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[Maksimus]

Oh... that is a large battle ... and I am not sure why you did not get a Heroic

Maybe .. who knows - Now you reminded me that I should edit my post and ask anyone to post victories won in some nice places like near some wonder or famous city

[colonalwhisky]

damn i now wish i had taken a sreeny of my heroic.
well here is it anyway

Saka 290 men (or there abouts)
- 2 generals
- 3 saka horse archers
-1.5 saka armoured horse archers

Baktra 900 odd men
- 3 spear archer units
- 1 slinger unit
- one native unit (the crappy ones)
- 3 phallanx units
- indo-greek horsies

end result.....
Saka - 20 men dead (mainly horse archers)
Baktra - 2 men left standing

I love mounted archers.

[Good Ship Chuckle]

This question is semi-relevant.
I see in your battle pics, that your unit cards are stretched out, and the usual display in RTW isn't there. The overview map is also in the top right hand corner. That display is awesome! My question:
How does one achieve that display mode? Is it a button?
Thanks.

[Maksimus]

You tweak that in Preferences.txt in your EB folder - but take my advice - don't make it the way I did - I am going to swich back vanilla way - coz the unit menu shows only if you drag the mouse pointer all the way to the top of the screen (it is annoying )

[Good Ship Chuckle]

That's perfect for me!!!!
I use hotkeys (I made an excellent tutorial, check out in my sig), and thus don't need the menu to give out commands.
Please, explain in detail how it is done!!

[Maksimus]

Ok, here is my preference.txt so you can see it yourself because I cant remember all the things I have tweaked so far

http://www.divshare.com/download/3724456-7de

You can find your file in ''RTW/eb/preferences/preferences.txt''

Still you will see ( i use hotkeys for years but ...)

Anyway .. Post Heroic

[Good Ship Chuckle]

It took a while to download for some reason, but I got it.
Thanx!!

[Ayce]

Not much of a heroic battle - a depleted but experienced army besieging Antiocheia was attacked. I had a 1:4 chance of winning because of auto-calc overrating phalanxes.



You might notice different icons for the Komatai, that's because the icons for Sweboz and Getai are switched around in 1.0. Here is the fix:
Komatai Icon Bug Fix

[Maksimus]

Oh.. those icons - does EB team know about this?

[Ayce]

Don't know, I posted the fix in the Bugs section a few days ago, but I have no idea if the team noticed.

[Maksimus]

ROME

oK.. got a CTD after this one...

But I will try again later

[user999]

Whoah Maksimus. How did you get the Romans to have such a relatively balanced army? Are you using any mod at all?

Cheers

[Maksimus]

This campaign I am Play-Testing ALX EB mod (beta)... so they are balanced because this army is hand-added (and the ALX engine is a bit different in recruitment than RTW.exe)

[Tellos Athenaios]

Don't know, I posted the fix in the Bugs section a few days ago, but I have no idea if the team noticed.

We sure did, and AFAIK it is fixed in the internal build as well...

[user999]

Alrightey cheers.
I'll have to get hold of that as soon as i finish my current campaign.
Which will take months

Cheers

[Cbvani]

Alas, I don't have any screenshots, but one of my favorite battles was a recent one in my Romani campaign - the Arverni attacked my recently captured city of Massalia, so I approached with my full-stack army. They retreated to their capital, and I followed - turns out, the full stack army they had attacking my city was one of two - the other being garrisoned in their capital. As my general had the impetuous trait (he was also my faction leader), I attacked.

This was going to be one of the most fun battles I ever had.

I used the Cannae strategy of encirclement and annihilation, although my chief objective was to rout the enemy rather than annihilate with my infantry. First, I harassed the enemy line with my slingers and withdrew them when they ran out of ammo. Next, I approached with my infantry line, consisting of a triarii and pedites extrodinarii (It may not be the cheapest army, but it hasn't failed me yet.) I had the PE occupy the center of the line and my triarii on the flanks. I used the PE to occupy the enemy line and then used my triarii to attack the flanks and rear.

My cavalry at this time chased down the enemy general and killed him. :) Assassination comes in many forms.

Not long after (a matter of seconds, at most) the entire enemy line began to rout. My 3 units of cavalry and my general had about 1000 kills each, and almost all of my infantry had about 100 kills each.

In total, I lost about 300 men to my enemies 4000+, mainly to enemy slingers.

I didn't get heroic because my odds were 1:1, but it was easily my largest battle to date and my strategy worked perfectly.

[Maksimus]

+4000 to 300 = Bravo to you