Movie battle reenactments

Naked Fanatics and Screeching Women,

Hello. I am curious as to whether anyone else has ever attempted to reenact a scene from a movie on a TW game as a custom battle.

I have attempted to reenact the Roman/Germanic battle scene from the beginning of Gladiator. With unit sizes set to huge, you can fit in enough cavalry, infantry, archers, and ballistae on the Roman side to create a pretty decent reproduction. For Germania, I decided not to use any spear warbands as I saw none in the movie, and instead used axemen, peasants, and other infantry types. I have tried playing this from both sides, and as Rome, I won fairly easily. As Germania, it was much more difficult. Germanic peasants simply cannot stand against Roman infantry. My axemen fought hard, though, and I at the end I had around 150 soldiers left while Rome had left the field with close to 200.

A buddy of mine also tried to reenact a battle scene from Troy. I didn't really hear much about it, though.

Anyways, feel free to write. I would love to hear about your personal attempts. Until then,


HOLD THE LINE,
Aaron

yeah, the battle at the end of King Arthur (2004).

Mounted nobles, celtic warriors, archers and a few catapults vs. loads of shieldwall stuff and a smattering of huscarles...and what you get, right, is...


dead Celts, dead knights, and that lovely warm feeling of knowing that Hollywood got it all wrong again and that merely making a speech about freedom does not allow you to overcome horrific odds.

In all seriousness, it was close. But 'Arthur's' head still wound up on a spike. I don't do too many of these 'recreation' battles though, the AI inevitably refuses to co-operate. If I tried the 'Gladiator' battle the Germans would probably all run off on a flank march or turn around and attack the cavalry whilst ignoring the 6,000 approaching Romans and their siege lines...as for my attempt to recreate Cannae...:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

dead, dead, dead Carthaginians. oh yes. :oops:

Haven't really tried anything myself like this in R:TW, but in M:TW I would often set up English vs. French battles mod similar to Crecy and Agincourt (i.e. pitting a small force of mainly-infantry English w/ a few units of Longbowmen against a larger mainly-cavalry French force). The battles generally ended in my favor, although there were some surprising outcomes.

Usually, though, I tend to gravitate towards the other end of the scale--I like to fight battles, then imagine my own backstory to them.

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Originally Posted by pvt_isaac

A buddy of mine also tried to reenact a battle scene from Troy. I didn't really hear much about it, though.

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I don't think that he would have much success with that, as none of the armies in Troy would be using phalanx units.(Too Early)

I tried reenacting the end battle in Spartacus, as SPQR versus Julii Gladiators (forget the name........Sammnite?) and some peasent units. Won as both sides, although Spartacus' army was a tricky one to win with......and, technically, he died. (his whole unit got cut down by legionaires:skull: )