Defend Constantinople (Mass Battle)

[Longasc]

Hello

A Quicksave before the battle for Constantinople of my normal diff. Late HRE Campaign.

I have taken Constantinople, and both Turks and Byzantines are now attacking my forces. Around 1100 or 1400 men against nearly 2500.

For all those who love mass battles... I got shocked as I saw the sheer amount of troops involved...^^

Here is the link:

http://www.michael-birke.de/DefenseConstantinople.zip

Download and enjoy... you might also try to play the next turn and deal with the Polish. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Ah... BTW: Medieval 2.0, = MTW + Viking Invasion Add-On, needed

[The_Emperor]

Sounds like fun... Is it a 3-way battle? I love those mass battles http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Longasc]

http://www.michael-birke.de/ConstantinopleDefended.vrp

Sorry, forgot a Screenshot at the end of the Battle. All my Soldiers were completely exhausted... the Cavalry was not able to catch running enemies...

Here - not too good, lost around 725 Men and killed nearly 1400. The Autoresolve Features calculates 980 to 1800 or so.

WATCH MY HEIR AND GENERAL FIGHT.

Impressive Surrounded and alone, yet me manages to break free and even kill the Turkish Sultan http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smokin.gif

[Mr Frost]

Biggest battles I ever had wereboth in the same campaign .
A modification of Wes Medmod {1.7 I think) playing Byzantium from the early period {I always like to start from the begining} it was . The first was the biggest at the time {after faceing several 5-7 thousand man invasions} against the Horde and both easier and harder than I had expected .
The Horde was mostly sitting in Khazar and Peyrwhatsyoumacallit {whatever the hell that sliver province between Khazar and Kiev is named} partly because I had used preists and spys enmass to help the Kievians {the faction in place of Novgorod} to survive {they ended up rather successful by the games end} whilst holding my own border provinces with very powerful armies . I decided the time was right to take a horse army I had been massing over a decade or so and destroy them .
I took my 2500 strong army {all gold upgrades and +1and+2 valour form the best facilities - about 500 Kataphractoi , 500 Cataracts {Byzantine Cavalry} and 1500 Alans {moded to be raised by Byzantium with a Horse Breeder and Spearmakers Workshop , very nice http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif} into Khazar just as the Horde "miagrated" into their other province and had that for nothing . They sent a sort of half-arsed force and decided to go back and think it through and thus I decided {having moved my Georgian Army into Khazar} to make a choice for them and attacked .
They had more than I thought {some bug wasn't showing me their whole army} but 12,500 Mongols regardless I destroyed them wholesale http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif .

The next was perhaps a century and a half later when I decided to curtail France as they were out doing me in glory {I wanted the glory victory} . I was had taken the Norse countries {Sweden from the resurgent Danes , Denmark and Norway from France} and the launched a massive force into Denmark from Saxony .
Just over 2000 men {2040 I think} in my first class army {opening line was my standard 4 Kataphractoi , 4 Saracen Infantry -Byzantine builds them in my game- 2 Varangian 2 Naptha throwers -60 men per unit , you learn to take Jihads seriously with those- and 4 Trebizond archers with composite bows -between short and long bows in performance- with some Kataphractio and Varangian and a LOT of Trebizond archers in reserve -I since decided to play with unlimited ammunition in the pre expansion game as it is just anoying having to try to "predict" when my archers "revictulation of arrows/replacements" will arrive in the reserve que} with gold upgrades and the best building bonuses commanded by a nine star General met some 16,200 dirty Frenchmen {they didn't wash often in those days http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif} of whom many were high end units , infact I don't remember even one lowly peasant in that battle . They never tried it again , and their Faction eventually died out {the Pope actually got much of their lands in conquest , he did rather well for a politically grasping shirtlifter http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif} .
The carnage was spectacular http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Longasc]

Mr Frost, btw, Glorious Achievements -> I always played GA, but ended up with 66% Domination...^^

Are GA not broken? How many points to I need to win a GA victory?

[Nowake]

More than the others, as far as I know http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif