Dhepee
09-24-2003, 17:24
I was fighting the last fight of a long war with the Turks. I corned the Sultan in Edessa. He had no heirs and I was feeling no mercy. His army was 3 units of Siphis of the Port, 1 Armenian Heavy cav, and one of Saracan Infantry.
I had 4 Pikes, 3 Longbows, 3 Chiv Knights still mounted, 4 CMAA with all Stat Improvements, and 2 of Late Royal knights.
I did not see the Saracan Inf at first, they were hidden in some trees at the bottom of a little gully. I beat the Siphis back with archers and pikes. I destroyed the Armenians with arrows. I was feeling pretty good. I had taken all of 5 casualties and the king was on the run.
My detached cavalry wing was off to the side, and that is when I spotted the Saracan inf. Since the battle was pretty well in hand I sent the cav down into the gully to take out this unit I had just noticed. They deployed nicely, surrounding the turks. At first the battle went my way. I was knocking them off in short order, and they were "losing badly", then it shifted to "losing" I was still unconcerned. Little did I realize that the Siphis had ridden around behind them, but were still at a distance.
I sent my infantry marching towards the Siphis, knowing that they would pass the cavalry action, still limited, to get back in contact with the siphis.
My archers were out front, in order to pin the siphis down. Then the unthinkable happened. The saracans killed my general. All hell broke loose. The cavalry routed and broke off contact. There was a very happy unit lying on my flank. I sent in two cmaa's and 1 pike. They were chewed up and spit out in short order, with virtually no lose to the saracan inf. At this point I realized that I had a problem, this little unit had just destroyed or routed the better part of my army. I turned the archers on them, and decided to make an all out attack. What I failed to realize was that no one was keeping the siphis busy. They began to attack my flanks with little skirmishes. Attack and withdraw, attack and withdraw.
All of a sudden there were white flags everywhere. I tried to pull of and reorganize but the siphis wouldn't let me. They kept harrassing my units, only making them waver more. I figured that the units were mauled and it would do me little good to pull them out so I used what I had left to wear out the enemy, while I assembled my reinforcements. It worked, if you can call it that. The siphis and saracans were so busy destroying what was left of my first army that they didn't notice the second army forming up. Slowly the Turks destroyed or drove off my units, but they were taking casualties too, until it looked as though they controlled the field. Then I rode my new army, almost all cavalry, into the fray, straight at the king, 12 units of cavalry, all in a wedge all converging on the 3 siphis of the port. I killed the king in moments, the rest of the army took flight in the face of my charge. I racked up 400 enemy dead to about 1400 dead of my own. Still I killed the king, he had no heirs, and England still reins supreme.
I had 4 Pikes, 3 Longbows, 3 Chiv Knights still mounted, 4 CMAA with all Stat Improvements, and 2 of Late Royal knights.
I did not see the Saracan Inf at first, they were hidden in some trees at the bottom of a little gully. I beat the Siphis back with archers and pikes. I destroyed the Armenians with arrows. I was feeling pretty good. I had taken all of 5 casualties and the king was on the run.
My detached cavalry wing was off to the side, and that is when I spotted the Saracan inf. Since the battle was pretty well in hand I sent the cav down into the gully to take out this unit I had just noticed. They deployed nicely, surrounding the turks. At first the battle went my way. I was knocking them off in short order, and they were "losing badly", then it shifted to "losing" I was still unconcerned. Little did I realize that the Siphis had ridden around behind them, but were still at a distance.
I sent my infantry marching towards the Siphis, knowing that they would pass the cavalry action, still limited, to get back in contact with the siphis.
My archers were out front, in order to pin the siphis down. Then the unthinkable happened. The saracans killed my general. All hell broke loose. The cavalry routed and broke off contact. There was a very happy unit lying on my flank. I sent in two cmaa's and 1 pike. They were chewed up and spit out in short order, with virtually no lose to the saracan inf. At this point I realized that I had a problem, this little unit had just destroyed or routed the better part of my army. I turned the archers on them, and decided to make an all out attack. What I failed to realize was that no one was keeping the siphis busy. They began to attack my flanks with little skirmishes. Attack and withdraw, attack and withdraw.
All of a sudden there were white flags everywhere. I tried to pull of and reorganize but the siphis wouldn't let me. They kept harrassing my units, only making them waver more. I figured that the units were mauled and it would do me little good to pull them out so I used what I had left to wear out the enemy, while I assembled my reinforcements. It worked, if you can call it that. The siphis and saracans were so busy destroying what was left of my first army that they didn't notice the second army forming up. Slowly the Turks destroyed or drove off my units, but they were taking casualties too, until it looked as though they controlled the field. Then I rode my new army, almost all cavalry, into the fray, straight at the king, 12 units of cavalry, all in a wedge all converging on the 3 siphis of the port. I killed the king in moments, the rest of the army took flight in the face of my charge. I racked up 400 enemy dead to about 1400 dead of my own. Still I killed the king, he had no heirs, and England still reins supreme.