Re: Post Heroic - Big Famous Battles
Alas, I don't have any screenshots, but one of my favorite battles was a recent one in my Romani campaign - the Arverni attacked my recently captured city of Massalia, so I approached with my full-stack army. They retreated to their capital, and I followed - turns out, the full stack army they had attacking my city was one of two - the other being garrisoned in their capital. As my general had the impetuous trait (he was also my faction leader), I attacked.
This was going to be one of the most fun battles I ever had.
I used the Cannae strategy of encirclement and annihilation, although my chief objective was to rout the enemy rather than annihilate with my infantry. First, I harassed the enemy line with my slingers and withdrew them when they ran out of ammo. Next, I approached with my infantry line, consisting of a triarii and pedites extrodinarii (It may not be the cheapest army, but it hasn't failed me yet.) I had the PE occupy the center of the line and my triarii on the flanks. I used the PE to occupy the enemy line and then used my triarii to attack the flanks and rear.
My cavalry at this time chased down the enemy general and killed him. :) Assassination comes in many forms.
Not long after (a matter of seconds, at most) the entire enemy line began to rout. My 3 units of cavalry and my general had about 1000 kills each, and almost all of my infantry had about 100 kills each.
In total, I lost about 300 men to my enemies 4000+, mainly to enemy slingers.
I didn't get heroic because my odds were 1:1, but it was easily my largest battle to date and my strategy worked perfectly.
Re: Post Heroic - Big Famous Battles
+4000 to 300 = Bravo to you :grin:
