Your greatest moment.

[Monk]

Was reading the ScreenShot thread in the mead hall and I got to wondering, what is that moment people think of as their favorite instance of what made MTW so great. The memory you hold above all others from when you played this game. ~D

Mine is simply:

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/story/monkehorde2.jpg

This is the very reason that I value MTW over M2TW and RTW. I just never had epic battles of this scale in the later TW incarnations.

[DaVega]

Very nice screenshot you got there, Monk :2thumbsup: That's also why I love MTW, such gigantic battles. I can't see I don't like MTW2, but at some points, MTW is just better.

I remember I had a battle of such scale a few months past, unfortunately, I don't have a screenshot:no:

[seireikhaan]

For some reason, my memory is failing me a tad here. What are those spear armed troops of yours?

[Kamakazi]

Yes the great battles are the best part of mtw...i remember such a battle where i had like 20k troops to about 40k for them and i almost won...bu you know what they say....almost only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades....
:army:

[Monk]

For some reason, my memory is failing me a tad here. What are those spear armed troops of yours?

The pic is from a mod but i forget which as it's been a few years since this battle occurred. I'm thinking it's the BKB mod or perhaps Medmod, since i played those a lot with MTW.

[drone]

I was wondering about that too. How exactly did you get royal Huscarles to fight the Horde? :inquisitive:

Looks like a fun battle, do you remember the outcome?

[Monk]

I won, barely. My entire Northern army was completely obliterated, took me a decent amount of turns to rebuild them and keep the steppes from revolting.

I wish i knew what mod it was, i wanna play that again! ~;p


I was wondering about that too. How exactly did you get royal Huscarles to fight the Horde?

Heh, i dunno, but I do know they turned that horde cavalry into corpses. I only had one unit of light cavalry.. I remember being frantic trying to constantly use them to take out archers and artillery. :sweatdrop:

Man, now i'm all nostalgic :yes:

[predaturd]

when i defeated a 3000 strong army with 300 men

[caravel]

Any of those epic campaigns as the Turks fighting off the Mongol Horde. I miss those campaigns.

[predaturd]

me too
now i can no longer do them campaigns because of some bug to do with my graphics card :(

[Ironside]

Don't remember much of the details, but the most epic loss was in a VI campaign where I was betrayed and was invaded by a massive army, severely outnumbering me.

I'm pretty certain that withdrawing as few archer units out of arrows instead of meleeing with them lost me the battle, as my exhausted now elite troops were slowly overrun by a mix of spearmen and peasants (all the elite troops were already dead) and dieing to the last man. It was 5-6 units being less than 20 men in total still beating back 300-400 men at the end.

It was easy after that, as the enemy had almost no men left after this battle.

[Martok]

First great moment: The first time I won a battle where the odds were heavily against me. My 450~ Spanish troops fought off an Almohad invasion of Cordoba, despite being outnumbered nearly 3-to-1.

Another great moment: The first time I successfully fought off a Crusade (when playing as the Egyptians). My army of around 1100 men destroyed a French Crusade (to Antioch) numbering almost twice the size of my own. It was in that battle that I discovered my great love for Ghazi Infantry. ~D

[Youngie]

My greatest moment actually wasnt a battle. It was the first time one of my deadweight assassins managed to kill the French king at (2%prob). It was kind of a murder on my part of a poor assassin, but by some darn bloody miracle he did it.

After that he got killed attempting a princess at (66%prob) :wall:

[Heidrek]

One of my battles as the Volga Bulgars. I had an army, about 1500 strong that I sent over by sea to claim Scotland from the rebels. Landed and killed the rebels, took some losses but not too much. Then the English decided to go to war with me and started puring troops at my isolated general. Couldn't reinforce him due to surprise ship battles, and he was one of my best generals 5* I think.

He fought off two waves of sucessive attacks without reinforcements, both times out numbered and out gunned. Finally with only a tattered remenant of around 400 troops, 120 of which were archers, the english launched another invasion to drive him out. Heavily heavily out numbered once again, he held on, causing heavy losses to the English until finally he had to use his vanilla Archers as his main infantry unit, having spent their arrows long ago and all other troops ground down by attrition.

Against all odds, he managed to fight the enemy to a stalemate and just as I was considering withdrawing, they withdrew! He went from Skiiled defender to Field Defense Expert and got the Skilled Last Stand Virutes as a result of that battle.

eventually the English attacked again and I abandoned the province to them and Ransomed him back. The man was a hero and I kept him with me for the rest of the campaign in spite of him getting Merciless (from killing all the english prisoners so they couldn't re attack) and Not So bold vices.

I remember watching the English begin their retreat and feeling a surge of elation, I actually felt like I was part of that battle, one of the weary defenders who had been on the edge of giving up, only to be delivered victory when least expected.

[naut]

Any of those moments when a well placed cannon ball takes out the enemy King. ~D

[macsen rufus]

My most epic battles (for sheer scale) have been in PMTW, playing as the English with their solid troop roster against the Russians who kept on invading (IIRC) Lithuania, which was my bridgehead. Although the Russian horse-archer types were a pain, they also fielded loads of peasant-grade militia types with an unpronounceable name. 30,000+ vs my 2000 or so. As ever, quality paid off over quantity, and a combination of regimental cannons on my side and peasant style morale on the other gave me a relatively easy victory. It was a rehash (or pre-hash?) of the "human wave" tactic. Dramatic, heroic and utterly futile. And they kept at it, year after year, til I had an eight-star general with field defence specialist, against-odds-defender etc, and valour well into double figures ~D

[Knight of the Rose]

I actually felt like I was part of that battle, one of the weary defenders who had been on the edge of giving up, only to be delivered victory when least expected.

This is what makes it at great game - as it's what it is: a computergame, some bits and bytes in a machine build from phisical materials. And then you are 'sucked in' and become a part of the game.

I've had many great moments, both winning and losing, and most of them are lost in the mists of time. One particular battle as the Turks vs. the Horde I can still remember though: My 700-800 strong mixed army against some 4.000 mongol warriors in Georgia or thereabouts. Found a cosy little mountaintop, at a *very* steep hill and inaccesible from 270 degrees. A killingzone as I've never seen it before or since. A shame the killing was going to be both ways.

They came in wave after wave. Most of them firing all their arrows and then retreating to give room for fresh reinforcements. After my archers had spend their ammunition the table turned. It was a shooting tent, and I was the target. For hours I watched my men go down one by one, and felt the victory I though would be easy slip through my fingers.

I had nothing to catch the swift buggers with, and a position too good to abandon. And as my army detoriated it became the only place I could win, and at the same time a sure place to die.

At the third wave, I decided that I was going to be the looser if I stayed put and made a move against the ring of MHA surrunding my position, but it was too late. The horde attacked me before I could reach the woods at the end of the map, and though my men fought valliantly, they lost. It was slaughter on a grand scale as my infantry was run down. I regrouped with the general in the forrest with less than 100 men and managed to chop down two or three MHC, but the AI regrouped and charged relentlesly into my weary and wavering woodsmen and they ran for their lives.

Two hours realtime had passed, my campaign had gone from decent to very difficult, my army gone and a feeling of guilt from having "let down" my men creeped into me. The shock, the horror. That was when I realised, that for me, this is one of the best games I've ever played.

/KotR

[seireikhaan]

Well, I've thought it over, and a few stick out, both from Pike and Musket. Once, defending Hungary from an Austrian invasion, I utterly destroyed the opposing force, which outnumbered me by about 1.5 to one, without a single casualty. Six units of regimental cannons on the hill top really tore them apart, and the enemy, due to my elevation advantage, never got within firing range, while I was continually tearing them to pieces with roughly my whole army at various points.

Another as the Portugese, when I had a similar experience to Macsen's except that I was heading them off. Ironically, also in Lithuania. My force of 1100 unpronouncable German halberdiers(some armed with +4 attack) all with +1 valor and one of my better generals, along with a few variety of other troops was attacked after forcing Lithuania under siege by a force of roughly 5,000 Russians, including the Czar himself. Unfortunately, a few mishaps by myself, compounded by the fact that I was unable to slay the Czar before he decided to fall back safely, meant that I did end up losing, though I inflicted over 4,000 casualties. The end was truly epic; I had two units of the halberd users left which only had about 6-8 guys, waiting in the forests for the enemy cavalry. They were exhausted beyond reason due to battling for the last 3 hours nearly continuously, and still prevailed over unit after unit of cheap, Russian cavalry units who were coming at 80 men per unit.

[Kamakazi]

After what happened yesterday i have to revise my best moment....it was actually a pretty drawn out series of 4 years and may battles....it was 1230 and the horde came back...grrrrrr..... Lol i was and still am the polish on that campain and the orde came in on 3 provinces with 60-80k men in all. I fought, lost, and won, in many of he steppe provinces :duel: and eventually eradicated them... But the best battle is when i routed a force of 10k with my about 3k army of spearmen and cavalry!!

[oz_wwjd]

http://images.yuku.com/image/bmp/78c15e50c4cba1c7c75b7a3fddb8e7c13a82caf.bmp
My best moment was when approx 25,000 geonese invaded my province of egypt,against my 6,000 garrison.I didn't see my odds of winning as good but I fought it out anyways,and achieved a win,against all odds.
http://images.yuku.com/image/bmp/03f35964587bcd7fc2ddaa27c7af0c0e5407259.bmp

[Jxrc]

Honeslty huge battles do become a bit tedious for me at times... Waiting for the GH with loads of arbs, spears and halbardiers .... Worst thing is when you get a CTD after you've won such battle since there is no way you could get the same result with an auto-calc (a pity there is no way to save the game after the battle is finished).

Best moments in the game were the times when I figured out how to deal with a situation which had been trying to handle for ages ... For instance, loosing countless battles against those pesky AUM figuring out a way to deal with those was a thrill ....

Assassinating all the Egyptian royal family over fifty years after they had conquered more than half the map was a treat too.

[oz_wwjd]

True, I had it crash 3 times after I completed my epic battle against the Italians,finally quicksaved after the battle and used that when it crashed to save on my main battle file.