soibean
06-15-2004, 07:03
I was playing as the English in the Late Period. At the current point in the game the Spanish had been wiped out thanks to the Ahlmohads, the germans only had 1 province (Friesland) thanks to the Swiss, and the French were totally gone thanks to myself... thats really all you need to know about the game's setting for this story.
Anyway Im allied with the Hungarians, the Ahlmohads, and the Italians.
I decide to attack the swiss because they are getting too strong for my liking and some swiss armored pikemen would be a nice addition to my army. Anyway I attack them in Ill De France (they took that from the French before I could get there ) and I totally crush them in a battle where half of my units were Longbowman, I was really worried about that one. Once I read off the casualty list I had 3 messages about my alliances come up... yea they all sided with the swiss Immediately the Ahlmohads attack my fleet (I had double caravels in each sea square along my trade route by now so they lost more battles than they lost) the Hungarians attack me in Friesland, and the Italians... well at this point they were only on Crete so I guess they just sat there and... plotted against everyone for when they decided to make their grand comeback.
So now I have a war going on with 3 different countries which I wasnt prepared for The Ahlmohad fleet was basically decimated by their surprise attacks except after losing alot of ships they banded together all of their Barques into 3 different groups and the leader had 3* which made them impossible to defeat with just 2 caravels... The Swiss decided to pull units out of god knows where and mount a counter offensive which drove me back into my own territory while the Hungarians attacked again (but at this time they were at war with turkey who had the most biggest standing army so it wasnt much that they attacked with.
In the end I pressed the Hungarians back to their own provinces, swiped 2 from the Ahlmohads who for some reason werent for technologically advanced and made it easy for my 500 guys to dominate over 1k of theirs, and totally crushed the swiss
I know that could have been told better, Im not much of a story teller so give me a break Im just psyched about making it out of that alive and to profit none the less. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-toff.gif
Anyway Im allied with the Hungarians, the Ahlmohads, and the Italians.
I decide to attack the swiss because they are getting too strong for my liking and some swiss armored pikemen would be a nice addition to my army. Anyway I attack them in Ill De France (they took that from the French before I could get there ) and I totally crush them in a battle where half of my units were Longbowman, I was really worried about that one. Once I read off the casualty list I had 3 messages about my alliances come up... yea they all sided with the swiss Immediately the Ahlmohads attack my fleet (I had double caravels in each sea square along my trade route by now so they lost more battles than they lost) the Hungarians attack me in Friesland, and the Italians... well at this point they were only on Crete so I guess they just sat there and... plotted against everyone for when they decided to make their grand comeback.
So now I have a war going on with 3 different countries which I wasnt prepared for The Ahlmohad fleet was basically decimated by their surprise attacks except after losing alot of ships they banded together all of their Barques into 3 different groups and the leader had 3* which made them impossible to defeat with just 2 caravels... The Swiss decided to pull units out of god knows where and mount a counter offensive which drove me back into my own territory while the Hungarians attacked again (but at this time they were at war with turkey who had the most biggest standing army so it wasnt much that they attacked with.
In the end I pressed the Hungarians back to their own provinces, swiped 2 from the Ahlmohads who for some reason werent for technologically advanced and made it easy for my 500 guys to dominate over 1k of theirs, and totally crushed the swiss
I know that could have been told better, Im not much of a story teller so give me a break Im just psyched about making it out of that alive and to profit none the less. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-toff.gif