Multiple Opponents

[Seamus Fermanagh]

What is the greatest number of factions you have faced in a single battle and how did it come about? So far, I have never faced more than two at once.

[Ciaran]

Three, once, when I played the Seleucids and besieged Rome. A Julii army attacked my sieging army, the Senate troops sallied out and a Scipii army nearby came over as well. No need to say, I got wiped.

But I also had battles with up to six enemy "armies", usually when I besiege cities and the AI places a couple of one-unit stacks all around.

[x-dANGEr]

In MP, the most I could kill alone is 3 players.. So that sums to 3 factions.

[Divine Wind]

Three, once, when I played the Seleucids and besieged Rome. A Julii army attacked my sieging army, the Senate troops sallied out and a Scipii army nearby came over as well. No need to say, I got wiped.

But I also had battles with up to six enemy "armies", usually when I besiege cities and the AI places a couple of one-unit stacks all around.

I had exactly the same situation apart from i was the Greeks, and i managed to win the battle. Probably only because i was on the ford, northwest of rome, and only one army came from behind while the other two had to cross the ford. My phalanxes made short work of those pesky romans.

[Ciaran]

In such a situation you only have a chance if you can rout one or two armies before the others reach your units. With luck, Romans can survive being attacked from behind, but any factions using phalanxes would get wiped out. In their case, it´s literally the Hour of Waterloo.

[Cras]

I once fought off 4 armies while being in a city with wooden walls (I was roman)... they actually attact with rams from all sides. Since it was undefendable I decided to defend all 4 sides of the centre square since it was on a hill

I actually managed to win, although in the end my cohortes consisted of so few men I had them run from access road to accessrode to stop whatever what was trying to come though.

What greatly helped were my 6 archer units which I placed on the square. I used the 3 cavarly units to jump in wherever the battle seems to be hardest..

was actually on of my best fights ever....

[PseRamesses]

Back on vanilla I (Scipio) was laying siege to Rome when Julii and Brutii joined. I was camped on the hillside directly east of Rome so I had a huge terrain advantage and my three foes came at me one by one, otherwise I wouldn´t have won. That überstack in Rome is/ was the only troops I actually feared in this game so I was quite satisfied when I did win.

[professorspatula]

In the single player campaign, two sides in a battle is all that is allowed, no neutrals as far as I recall. It's very unlikely you'll face more than a couple of foes at once because they have to be allied with one another and AI allies being within the same space in RTW is pretty rare unless there's some kind of Toffee eating convention on that the AI just has to attend, which is obviously a bit of a rariety. I suppose in Italy is the greatest chance you have of facing up to numerous opponents, such as the example in the previous post as the Romans love to walk into each other's territory, typically for no real reason whatsoever.