Spoofa
04-08-2007, 18:16
Today, i was playing as my all time Favorite ancient faction, the Macedonians, and i had captured epidamnos, while the epirotes held ambrakia and the town above epidamnos (i dont know because i havent scouted that area out yet, but i saw the green borderline)
The point is, i had a little less then a stack of men in epidamnos, 3 Phalangitai Deuteroi, and one unit of merc Phalangitai ( i think they were the lesser kind, because they had better armor then my deuteroi but werent Pezhetairoi), 1 classic hoplite group with 2 experience, 1 Thessalonian Cavalry unit with 3 experience and 2 peltastai.
So out of the blue comes this 3/4 stack of epirotes, probably the army i saw Pyrrhus lead northwards after the first turn or so. I assume Pyrrhus had died somewhere or was governing that province in the north, since it was led by one of his son's.
He had decided to retake Epidamnos, and this town held a large portion of my army, i was determined to hold it and repel the epirotes even with lesser numbers.
He had made 4 battering rams, and i had 4 Phalangitai, so I started thinking i might be able to hold them off if i use my Phalangitai wisely. Little did i know when my general had finished his riveting speech, that they had brought Elephants along with them :sweatdrop:
The elephants were of little use, besides becoming cannon fodder for my peltastai.
Saddly, his numerical advantage was barely enough to beat my heroic defenders of the gate, and several points in the wall, no matter how hard i tried i could not hold them back, my militia Phalangitai were not trained to hold back so many men, allthough for militia i have to say they fought bravely.
Also what frustrated me is the cavalry's pathfinding, I tried to charge the enemy many times but my cavalry always stopped short or didnt drop their spears in time, they didnt suffer many casualties thankfully, but were of little effect to the enemy.
As my forces started to slowly fail to attrition, I started to realized i could not turn this battle around. Saddly, my general (who was on the far left side of the wall to assist the forces there) realized this too, and rode outside of the wall. (after riding through enemy formations of course.) and tried again to charge into the flank of the enemy in hope of routing them to free up my forces a little bit, but to no avail, the pathfinding was horrible. but i dealt with it. soon my right most defense crumbled, and the men routed, then in a chain reaction the inner right defense failed and the gate assault(gaurded by only the BRAVE classic hoplites who were the only one's left) was delayed by the brave efforts of the Hoplites, who fought to the last man. Alas, this was also to no avail, the enemy broke through and arrived at my town square nearly undefended, Only my general and 18 Thessalonian men were left standing, After coming back into the city from the gate, he witnessed the carnage...
The Epirotes, aware of my generals actions of retaking the gate, filled with rage of their slaughtered brethren decided to charge at my general, tiring themselves out from running, while my general looked around at his bodygaurd, and his loyal Thessalonians, he knew they would follow him to death, so he charged, charged into the front of the entire epirote force, but THIS time, the Pathfinding was true, and the spears were lowered, fully prepared to impale the first man that came within range.
(Saddly, lol the stupid timer when the enemy controls the square ran out after my general had routed several units of their men single handedly, so i didnt get to use him to full effect.)
Thus was the end of Asphalion Ilopoki (i prly messed up the spelling on the name)
His name will be remembered throughout history, as the man who stood alone to defend his country against the Hound of Greece.
https://img291.imageshack.us/img291/143/laststandxz3.jpg
Asphalion Ilopoki and his men, standing at the gates amongst the carnage, prepare to charge into the oncoming wave of death.
The point is, i had a little less then a stack of men in epidamnos, 3 Phalangitai Deuteroi, and one unit of merc Phalangitai ( i think they were the lesser kind, because they had better armor then my deuteroi but werent Pezhetairoi), 1 classic hoplite group with 2 experience, 1 Thessalonian Cavalry unit with 3 experience and 2 peltastai.
So out of the blue comes this 3/4 stack of epirotes, probably the army i saw Pyrrhus lead northwards after the first turn or so. I assume Pyrrhus had died somewhere or was governing that province in the north, since it was led by one of his son's.
He had decided to retake Epidamnos, and this town held a large portion of my army, i was determined to hold it and repel the epirotes even with lesser numbers.
He had made 4 battering rams, and i had 4 Phalangitai, so I started thinking i might be able to hold them off if i use my Phalangitai wisely. Little did i know when my general had finished his riveting speech, that they had brought Elephants along with them :sweatdrop:
The elephants were of little use, besides becoming cannon fodder for my peltastai.
Saddly, his numerical advantage was barely enough to beat my heroic defenders of the gate, and several points in the wall, no matter how hard i tried i could not hold them back, my militia Phalangitai were not trained to hold back so many men, allthough for militia i have to say they fought bravely.
Also what frustrated me is the cavalry's pathfinding, I tried to charge the enemy many times but my cavalry always stopped short or didnt drop their spears in time, they didnt suffer many casualties thankfully, but were of little effect to the enemy.
As my forces started to slowly fail to attrition, I started to realized i could not turn this battle around. Saddly, my general (who was on the far left side of the wall to assist the forces there) realized this too, and rode outside of the wall. (after riding through enemy formations of course.) and tried again to charge into the flank of the enemy in hope of routing them to free up my forces a little bit, but to no avail, the pathfinding was horrible. but i dealt with it. soon my right most defense crumbled, and the men routed, then in a chain reaction the inner right defense failed and the gate assault(gaurded by only the BRAVE classic hoplites who were the only one's left) was delayed by the brave efforts of the Hoplites, who fought to the last man. Alas, this was also to no avail, the enemy broke through and arrived at my town square nearly undefended, Only my general and 18 Thessalonian men were left standing, After coming back into the city from the gate, he witnessed the carnage...
The Epirotes, aware of my generals actions of retaking the gate, filled with rage of their slaughtered brethren decided to charge at my general, tiring themselves out from running, while my general looked around at his bodygaurd, and his loyal Thessalonians, he knew they would follow him to death, so he charged, charged into the front of the entire epirote force, but THIS time, the Pathfinding was true, and the spears were lowered, fully prepared to impale the first man that came within range.
(Saddly, lol the stupid timer when the enemy controls the square ran out after my general had routed several units of their men single handedly, so i didnt get to use him to full effect.)
Thus was the end of Asphalion Ilopoki (i prly messed up the spelling on the name)
His name will be remembered throughout history, as the man who stood alone to defend his country against the Hound of Greece.
https://img291.imageshack.us/img291/143/laststandxz3.jpg
Asphalion Ilopoki and his men, standing at the gates amongst the carnage, prepare to charge into the oncoming wave of death.