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playing as armenia, I attacked a pontic army of equal number. Obviously I had HA's while they had pontic lights/heavies. there was a mountain on the battlefield with such a steep slope that when the pontic cavalry climbed up it they outranged me severely. I ended up having to retreat.
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My strangest one so far was off in the hinterlands, Campus Sarmatae. I (Brutii) had managed to get an army out there of veteran cavalry and mercenary horse archers, and one infantry unit I brought up from the Black Sea in order to hold the ram (Senate mission to take the place, and the cavalry was my raiding band...couldn't send more infantry because I was fully embroiled in war with Pontus, Selucid, and Parthia at the time).
By the time my raiders reached the the Scythian capital there were less than 20 units per card, and only about 8-10 cards (had taken on two nearly full stacks of Scythian Generals headed back to the capital, and there was no where to retrain and still make the capital on time). I was outnumbered by about 100 men going in, and laid seige. I atacked after the first turn building a ram, and all my men except for 11 cavalry in my General's card and 18 in a Roman Cavalry were killed or routed trying to take the gates (damn axemen). I got those two loose inside the city and ran them around somehow picking off units one by one, till I had just the warlord on the hill, with 28 heavy cavarly of his own. For whatever reason he decided to just sit there while I rested and flanked him with my two units. I charged in when fresh and somehow took him out (guess it helped that my General was cruelly scarred by that point). I had 5 in the General's card and 11 in the Cavalry by the end.
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being outnumbered by 100 men is nothing. or are you playing on small.
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I wasn't claiming I was vastly outnumbered, just that it was strange, because I thought I had lost it when I blew it at the gates, but still managed to eek out a win by running the remaining enemy in circles through their own city.
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I know this would be unbelieveable but when I was in my Scipii Campaign against Egypt the Egyptians attacked me on the bridge near Alexandria. They came with 6 units of Pharohs archers, 2 pharohs spearmen, and a family member. Even though I won the battle thx to Roman Cavalry :charge: , it was pretty strange that Egypt attacked me w/ a bunchfull of archers w/o enough supporting ~:grouphug: units.
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they do it all the time in my campaign. nothing weird but rather annoying
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the strangest battle ive ever fought was against........my own general!! In campaign map i was attacked by the carthaginians and as usual i went into the battlemap. it was a faily easy battle and when all the carthiginians were routing i noticed that my legionary cohort i controlled was being attacked on its unit card. i went to their location only to see that my own generals unit was attacking it!! i couldnt figure out what was happining so i told my legionarys to pull back. They did this and then my generals unit procedded into the middle of the map and ran around in circles!? after aboout 20 secs of this the victorie scroll came up and i never had any problems. has this happend to anyone else?
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That's nuts. Was your general crazy or anything?
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I've Routed a 2000 man army of Bruti Romans with one group of Spartan Hoplites. The damn AI is just so smart, they try to cram everyone through the open gate.
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I've Routed a 2000 man army of Bruti Romans with one group of Spartan Hoplites. The damn AI is just so smart, they try to cram everyone through the open gate.
Replace the Romans with Persians and you've got Thermopylae...
The battles before the traitor showed the Persians the way around the pass.
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My strangest battle was myself losing 5x the enemy in a siege assault. The worst battle I have ever fought. A disgrace.
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Was the selucids, taken whole east I began on north africa. When I came to carthage, scipii was there waiting for me. I entered a battle against a normal-3000 soliders roman army (no cav though) with mine consisting of around 1000 soliders. Only used my armoured elephants (2 units I think); they chrushed everything, routed them, and then I took them with my cavalry. Result: 3000 dead romans, 0 of mine. Hated using elephants after that..
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That seem to be right with the chariots beating your cohort, my strangest battle is that I made up a legion entirely of horse man cavalry of all types that I can recruit even mercenary too. Anyway been rumble in spain and other place because they are fast, they won't quite a lot of battle for me though :)
Once they beat an entire army of spain with more then 2500+ it is two combine into one.
What is "horse man cavalry"...??
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Faction leaders defeating a 20 stack army all by himself
no way lmao...on what battle difficulty? was this in a campaign or custom?
go into more detail...this one is amazing heh :charge:
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What is "horse man cavalry"...??
Centaurs, maybe?
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no way lmao...on what battle difficulty? was this in a campaign or custom?
go into more detail...this one is amazing heh :charge:
It must be easy or medium. But with two generals you can defeat a 20 unit stack even on very hard (provided that the enemy has little or no cavalry and definitely no chariots or elephants), because you can demoralize by charging from two directions - however it requires that you time every little charge perfectly, one or two mistakes is enough to lose.
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i was greece i had 1500 troops mainly hoplite and one unit of armored hoplite i was going agaisn't around 500 rebels i had to withdraw only because the rebels had a few unit of militia hoplite but they were literaly on top of a huge mountain seriously around 65 to 75 degree angle after they were killing a hoplite unit 10 guys every 2 seconds or so i quit and just came back and simulated it yes i did try to flank with cavarlay but they were just on the perfect moutain when i started the battle i couldn't see them they were so hi up
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I will have some contributions to this soon...a few months back with my Brutii campaign I had tons of great battles...but now I'm doing a Germania campaign using RTR 5.4.1 (emperor campaign difficulty, preatorian battle, hardest most realistic settings available) and THIS is the way the game was meant to be played. I recommend this mod and these settings to anyone who considers themselves a "hardcore" player. You'll love it.
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One of the strange things I've seen has to do with sieges. The AI often puts it's General on the walls when defending, and I like using sap points. My Roman army was trying to take a Greek city on Sicily and the sappers went to work as usual. They reach the wall close to the main gates where the enemy General is staring at my army and the walls start to crumble. For some reason the Greeks just stood there, even when soldiers started falling to their death. Their leader fell to his death and I didn't get to kill him! :furious3:
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Once, i walked into a city of 7,000 (The AI had left it with any protection) with a unit of gallic mercs (There were only 6/240 still alive) and killed off the entire city :devil: