My brilliant survival (well I think...)

[Sam1626]

Has anyone else had battles when you were grossly outnumbered with no way of winning automatically so you decide to play manuel just to see how it goes and you win?
My example of this is:
Begin
ME -Britannia 1(36) skirmishing chariots
THEM-Germania 4(121)Spear warbands
1(36)Naked Fanatics
End
Me -No change
Them-1(121)\
1(119) \
Spear warband
1(109) /
1(36) /
P.S Sorry for my horrible spelling,grammer and syntax.
P.P.S If this is in the wrong section please may the mods move it(Sorry it is my first post)

[pezhetairoi]

well, not too brilliant... :-P the fact that you're using chariots with arrows added on means you've got half the battle won already, against incredibly slow spear warbands that can't do anything to you...

Welcome to the Org, btw!

[sapi]

I've defeated 2000+ armies with a few hundred men as the romans and greeks, as their troops are too disciplined to break.

[Bonusmalus]

I fought a nice battle little battle in Thermon

I were sieging it with an army led by Gaius Scipio. The city was macedonian. They had few pikemen units in the city. I had about 5 units of hastati one velite and my general. I quickly fought my way to the center. The town was mine. But then I realized a horrible thing. In the horizon, there were a huge mass of pikes coming inside the walls. Those macedonians have called reinforcements!!! :furious3: I quickly got my hastati guarding the main street making a bottleneck. I managed somehow to keep the pikes away from the central plaza. And when the time had expired, I WON!!

[PseRamesses]

Playing Macedon I faced a Thracian invasion of Bylazora who only had 2 phalanxes as garrison. I moved yet 2 more phalanxes as reinforcements but they ran out of movement one tile from the besieged city. On the next turn the besieging Thracians lifted the siege and attacked my relief force instead. Heavily outnumbered against some 8-900 inf and 4 cav units of different size I though I´d have a go at it.
On the battlefield to my left I found a huge rockformation with a small "pocket" in it so I rushed my phalanxes there forming a solid wall of pikes, 7-8 rows deep, sieling the entrance. This way the only way for the Thracians to attack me was straight on. I can´t remeber the actual numbers but I killed almost all of them and my captain was promoted to a general with traits like "heroic last stand", "defence specialist" and many years later became Alexander - the conqueror, which ofcourse is another story.

[Aesculapius]

Cavalry mobility plus AI stupidity means that almost any amount of cavalry can beat an infantry-only army.

I learned this when two of my Gaulish barbarian cavalry, on their way to reinforce another army, were ambushed by a near-full stack of German infantry (the usual spearman plus a scattering of screeching women / axemen), on level terrain with a mix of forest and open land. I sent my two units in opposite directions. The bulk of the enemy came after one of my units, while two enemy units split off and headed for the other. So it was a simple matter of pulling them as far apart as possible; then racing the most-outnumbered cavalry unit round to the smaller engagement; pulling those two enemy units apart; and sandwich one of them and then the other to destruction before the rest of the army caught up. Repeat add nauseam.

By the time the battle timed out, the enemy troops were all exhausted; I had crushed seven infantry units; and lost about a third of my two cavalry units. If intelligence is the ability to learn from your mistakes then the AI is by definition not intelligent!