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Bhruic
05-07-2004, 01:23
Playing as the Turks, fighting the Byzantine. I'd taken all the land up to Constantinople. They used a boat to sneak across to Georgia. I retreated my units into the fort for that year, then launched a counter-attack. I had the superior numbers, but my general was a 0-star, they had their King who was a 7-star. The fighting was fierce, but most of my army got routed. My horse archers continued to pound the 3 remaining Kat units, killing one, and leaving the other 2 at 5 and 6 men, respectively. The King had the 6 men. At that point, I was out of arrows, so had my units withdraw.

What I didn't factor is was the "siege". The siege damage took place, I lost 12 units, they lost 20. 20 being more than they happened to have, resulting in the death of their King and one of the heirs.

I'm sure I would have been able to retake the province the next turn, but I was quite surprised at the way it happened. In fact, I didn't actually get the province back, but they had no defenders, allowing me to simply de-garrison my troops and take the province.

Considering how many losses I would have taken to the 2 Kat units (both were rapidly approaching 'Jedi' levels at that point), it worked out very nicely for me.

Bh

solypsist
05-07-2004, 05:15
good thing you just seiged. if you had auto-calc assaulted the castle, the enemy king would hev been automatically captured and ransomed.
and back for another battle.

Bhruic
05-07-2004, 05:48
Er, I think you misunderstood the situation. I was being sieged by them. Meaning that it was pretty impossible for me to assault the castle. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Bh

solypsist
05-07-2004, 06:46
whoops.

[DnC]
05-07-2004, 07:30
That sure is a nice way of getting rid of an enemy leader http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif

squippy
05-07-2004, 16:32
I saw this happen once, as the French under siege by the Germans. As above, the seige causalties wiped out their remnants after they tried an assault and all I had to do was move out to take it again. But in may case they weere only spearmen and militia.