Ironfist
12-21-2002, 20:28
WOW
Playing as the English I quickly took Contantinople with 3000 men only be counter attacked next move by 7200 Egyptians
As I had just added 500 Swedish armoured pikeman at gold level and had about 600 gold level welsh longbowmen I thought I'd hope to get a hilly terrain and see how I got on.
Luck was with me as I had a long steep hillside by the edge of the map.
I set up 50% archers and protected them with my pikemen in front and billmen each end with my Gothic Knight General in the rear.
It was murder The archers literally mowed down attack, after attack, after attack of Egyptian cavalry. In 6 weeks of playing this game I had never had a battle like this one. It was amazing.
It lasted nearly the whole 215 minutes, my wife came in to ask why I was taking so long to join her for dinner but I just could not pause half way thru.
After the first 3 waves of cavalry I was attacked by spearman and crossbowmen and so I stopped the archers and attacked the spearmen with my billmen and the crossbow men with my General.
I never noticed before but the honour level goes up mid battle in real time. I saw my general go from level 4 to 6 and my archers went from levels 5 to 6 and one of them went up to level 7.
The final outcome was I killed 4000+ Egyptians for the loss of 140 English - an amazing battle
Playing as the English I quickly took Contantinople with 3000 men only be counter attacked next move by 7200 Egyptians
As I had just added 500 Swedish armoured pikeman at gold level and had about 600 gold level welsh longbowmen I thought I'd hope to get a hilly terrain and see how I got on.
Luck was with me as I had a long steep hillside by the edge of the map.
I set up 50% archers and protected them with my pikemen in front and billmen each end with my Gothic Knight General in the rear.
It was murder The archers literally mowed down attack, after attack, after attack of Egyptian cavalry. In 6 weeks of playing this game I had never had a battle like this one. It was amazing.
It lasted nearly the whole 215 minutes, my wife came in to ask why I was taking so long to join her for dinner but I just could not pause half way thru.
After the first 3 waves of cavalry I was attacked by spearman and crossbowmen and so I stopped the archers and attacked the spearmen with my billmen and the crossbow men with my General.
I never noticed before but the honour level goes up mid battle in real time. I saw my general go from level 4 to 6 and my archers went from levels 5 to 6 and one of them went up to level 7.
The final outcome was I killed 4000+ Egyptians for the loss of 140 English - an amazing battle