lancer63
09-19-2003, 18:02
It's the 1230's I'm in my current Egyptian camp. Armenia is hit by the GH for the third time. No prob. I just came out of defeating 11,000 sicilians in Greece, so 5,000 mongols should be to grounds for worrying. Nevertheless I never finished the battle.
The battle began as ussual, the GH throwing infantry first, it's general high tailing it to his women (or boys, dunno)or staying on the field staring at the sky. Inmediatelly came several waves of archers and chargers and after escorting them out of the field, Iexpected more foot soldiers and some naphta throwers.
But this time a few curious things happened. First I withdrew 3 badly mauled, camel warrior units just to later (about one hour later)learn that one of the camel sprites got stuck on a tree and remained on an endless stationary gallop, yet no camel icons remained on the lower screen.
At one time the enemy 'waves' stoped and when I saw only 1 Steppe heavy cav., 2 mongol archers and 3 MHC I expected them to be the last of the lot.
But after routing the 6 units I lost track of the steppe heavies. I know all went home but they were the last to break and run, 9 riders remained in that unit, yet I saw the mongols reach safety but completely lost the steppe guys.
And to top it all, units began to appear one by one, and I mean I had to beat one unit in order for another to appear and it took a good 5 min. in real time after one unit left completely, for the reinforcement to show up. I must have defeated 10 units that way until no more units came out.
But the battle didn't end. I began looking all over the place for any stragglers but all I found was the lonely camel warrior. Except for the dead, there remained no enemy on the field.
I had to exit the battle, which I hate, but it was almost 3 in the morning and had to work today.
I plan to fight that battle again, but I wanted to know if anyone experienced anything like this before.
Cheers.
The battle began as ussual, the GH throwing infantry first, it's general high tailing it to his women (or boys, dunno)or staying on the field staring at the sky. Inmediatelly came several waves of archers and chargers and after escorting them out of the field, Iexpected more foot soldiers and some naphta throwers.
But this time a few curious things happened. First I withdrew 3 badly mauled, camel warrior units just to later (about one hour later)learn that one of the camel sprites got stuck on a tree and remained on an endless stationary gallop, yet no camel icons remained on the lower screen.
At one time the enemy 'waves' stoped and when I saw only 1 Steppe heavy cav., 2 mongol archers and 3 MHC I expected them to be the last of the lot.
But after routing the 6 units I lost track of the steppe heavies. I know all went home but they were the last to break and run, 9 riders remained in that unit, yet I saw the mongols reach safety but completely lost the steppe guys.
And to top it all, units began to appear one by one, and I mean I had to beat one unit in order for another to appear and it took a good 5 min. in real time after one unit left completely, for the reinforcement to show up. I must have defeated 10 units that way until no more units came out.
But the battle didn't end. I began looking all over the place for any stragglers but all I found was the lonely camel warrior. Except for the dead, there remained no enemy on the field.
I had to exit the battle, which I hate, but it was almost 3 in the morning and had to work today.
I plan to fight that battle again, but I wanted to know if anyone experienced anything like this before.
Cheers.