Re: Tales of the unexpected
Forward retreats happen so much they're a running joke. You can actually abuse them to get a small fleet past a larger one pretty easily.
The biggest shock I ever got was specifically head hunting the last Timurid Khan, killing him, and not getting the faction eliminated screen. One of the defeated, retreated stacks off screen had gotten an auto-spawn general between turns. He had 4 chivalry and one of those 'noble in battle' or something traits. Hilarious.
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Re: Tales of the unexpected
I tried to stop an invasion by attacking the fleet (one ship) that carried the invasion force. I defeated the enemy fleet but it escaped to wards their objective and out of my reach. The enemy landed its army the next turn. :wall: :wall: :wall:
Re: Tales of the unexpected
most unexpected was when somehow the moors had managed to get into russia and defeated the mongol horde in 5 turns
Re: Tales of the unexpected
My very first campaign of M2 was as the Byzantines (I modified the files to unlock them). When the Mongols appeared, they went after Russia, and I had not expanded past Iasi, so I held the bridges against them. When they declared war on me finally, they came en masse, and tried to force a bridge crossing with 3 stacks. I won the long and bloody battle, and when the campaign map loaded back up, the two stacks that were next to the bridge retreated back towards Kiev, while the remnants of the stack that actually attacked me retreated forward. Somehow, it made it across the bridge I was defending, past the reserve stack of troops I had there to help me out, and went nearly a full move into my territory! It took me about 10 turns to wipe them all out, because the two generals kept managing to get away and regenerate their bodyguard units.