dropping rocks...ridiculous things in battle

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Originally Posted by _Aetius_

Had a similar experience in terms of catapults, there I was with a meagre force of 650 Byzantines against 1700 Spanish Crusaders, I thought to myself "Find a hill, hold it aslong as I can, do as much damage as possible" simple, lose but make them pay for it.

I had 1 catapult team, that had killed squat in the 2 previous battles they had been in so I vengefully put them at the back of my army, the battle starts and the map turns yellow as a load of Spanish come towards me.

First thing I do is click on my catapult and order it to fire, randomly clicking into the mass of Spanish, first boulder goes absolutely miles away from where I clicked bounces over the Feudal sergeants crashing into a unit of Royal knights killing 1 man, who happened to be the enemy general.

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I experienced something similar to this, except I was the victim rather than the victor of such circumstance. I was playing the Byz and fighting the Spanish somewhere in Western Europe. I went into battle with complete, overwhelming odds in my favor. I rushed my army downfield to claim the easy victory with my 7-star Prince in the rear. The Spaniards then fired one volley from two of their catapults, and guess who got killed???

Within a minute or so my entire army routed... they were practically tripping over each other 'cuz they couldn't get off the field fast enough! Words can't describe how p**ssed I was. :furious3:

Lately I've tried a new thing and have modded my Longbowmen. Now, they are like the best Snipers ever trained in the Universe!!! I backed up my army far back on the field (it's all perfectly flat) and used my awesome Longbowmen. They shot down the French King in the first wave of shots, and this was definently longer range than any weapon I had ever seen. Anyway, we shot down their King from one side of the map to the other, and while their army tried to get to us, we killed off every single one of them. Game end, 2,360 killed, 0 lost. :smile:

-ZainDustin

I guess I never use them to target the general but I can see why historically they weren't used. But they are so good at taking out morale that I almost have to use them.