What battles have you pwned in???

**Mek Simmur al Ragaski** · 03-26-2008, 01:06

Aside from my other post, i was wondering which battles you have pwned in. Personally for me in was in the siege of Angers. I had about 5 units of dismounted feudal knights, 4 units of mailed knights, 2 catapult units and 5 units of highland archers with 2 units of peasant archers. In this battle i used my new Crown formation, 3 mailed knight units to lead, in wedge formation, followed by 5 units of dismounted feudal knights, then another group of mailed knights (the general is in that, but he wasnt a family member when i created it) The point of this is to create several chinks in the enemies frontline for your heavy troops to tear apart. When the chinks are made, you pull out your horses and shatter the remaining resistance with your heavy troops, if you are heavily outnumbered this may not work, but it did for me when i was outnumber on that particular battle by about 400 soldiers....
My dismounted feudal knights literally tore apart the remaining resistance, and then when the enemy was close to routing, i let my general attack them and there was a chain of mass routs. I think the deaths for them were about 1000, me with roughly 200. In this battle the majority of the troops on the enemies side were actually spears, spears and heavily upgraded swordsmen, ill have to try the formation in different situations to see what happens....

Well back to the point, the first 10 minutes of the battle were mainly me watching entranced as my catapult stood infront of my gate killing all of the enemy soldiers who were to idle to come and finish it off. I think the catapult was the units to cause the most casualties in that battle...

Anyway post your best massacres, stuggles and pwnages here!

**Tristrem** · 03-26-2008, 01:14

in Broken Cresent i had a battle against the turks where my byzantine of 800 or so men fought off more than 2000 turks. By the end of the battle the only men left were about 40 spearmen in about 5 small units, 8 katanks, and 12 bodyguards. It was the battle that turned the tide of the war. After that they never recovered and i quickly took most of their territory.

**Ramses II CP** · 03-26-2008, 15:07

This is one of my favorites:

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The odds weren't especially bad, 1:3:

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...but all my men were militia and mercs with the plague, while all of his were 3x bronze experience heavy infantry and heavy cavalry.

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So I caught them in an ambush, and smashed my cavalry into them over and over again so that by the time the remainder of his troops, who were still vastly superior to my own, reached my spear formation they were well tenderized and ready to break. A series of charges into their rear while they were slaughtering my spearmen broke them at last.

The idea of a bunch of militia with the plague ambushing a professional, experienced Danish field army and crushing it... sheer joy. Not great numbers or anything, but fun. I might still have a screenshot of the Aztec fight where I lost ~10 men and killed about 2500, but the Aztecs are such a joke it's not really worth posting.

**Mek Simmur al Ragaski** · 03-26-2008, 16:21

Another battle in angers, this time my peasant and highland archers sent the entire enemy unit of dismounted feudal knights routing in melee, i couldnt believe my luck

**Brave** · 03-26-2008, 16:56

Quite frankly I do the business on the battlefield. (therfore I pwn all the time)

**Mek Simmur al Ragaski** · 03-26-2008, 17:02

The mighty naval battle between the scottish and english still occur, but the english have deployed there soldiers to the south to destroy the spanish so im gonna take caen rennes, angers and much more :)

**Eikon the Magistrate** · 04-01-2008, 16:08

woot ... pics!

IMG]https://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll37/fedthefed/mtw/0025.jpg[/IMG]

all i have up atm on photobucket will add more...

notice the 1st pic.. a single kill separates the venetians from ATPG =p

**Eikon the Magistrate** · 04-01-2008, 16:15

these didnt work the firsttime idk why?

**Duke Bart** · 04-02-2008, 00:49

My greatest battle wasnt a particularly surprising one. I was playing as spain, and milan kept pissing me off so i sent a half stack of knights into them (fairly expensive but it turned out to pay for itself). So after winning a few minor battles, milan throws a full stack at me but it turns out it was just a bunch of archers with a few heavy units backing them up.

No surprise what happened to them, they got massacred since well, archers cant really handle knights when the heavy infantry they did have where scattered. It wasnt some epic strugge or anything but seeing countless enemy soldiers get thrown around like that was fun.

**Mek Simmur al Ragaski** · 04-02-2008, 12:27

This isnt really that good of a victory, but i did hold Castle Town from Scotland, they brought in 4 units of higlanders, 2 units of highland archers and 2 units of spear militia, and i managed to hold them off with a group off with 2 groups of viking raider and some archer peasant militia

I managed to make the fight stay within a cramped alleyway, but my forces were spread out unevenly, and pretty sonn they broke through one end, but hen my archers just filled them up with arrowss, and the scots still decided to try and kill my remaining infantry, i think the only reason my viking raiders didnt break was beacause they had a general with them...

**CynicalP** · 04-02-2008, 20:46

A couple nights ago I attack a stack of HRE troops on their way to reinforce Nuremberg. Their forces comprised of 2 heavy cavalry units, 4-5 spear militia, 4 crossbow unit, 2-3 light infantry, 1 heavy infantry and a ballista. My forces comprised of 5 longbowmen, 2 Armoured sergeants, 1 Spear militia, 1 dismounted knight, 1/2 stack of hobilars, 2 catapults, a trebuchet and my general. I lucked out and my army were place on a mountain top over looking some nice little valley. The front of the mountain could not be traversed; instead there was a nice winding path to the top.

Normally the HRE units hold their ground and wait for me to attack, but for some reason the AI wanted to climb that mountain and meet my forces head on. Really bad decision.

I have learnt that trebuchets and catapults are pretty accurate when they are firing downward, usually they miss by a mile. There were some devasting hits into some highly concentrated mass of HRE units.

The longbowmen were just cutting them down as they slowly trudged up the mountain side. By the time they reached my infantry line they lines were so thinned out I charged my line and they started to rout en masse.

I think I lost about 14 soldiers and most of those causalities were result of friendly fire. My hobilars and general cleaned up the routing troops. HRE refused to pay the over three thousand ransom and the prisoners were sent to the gallows ( a very disturbing sound effect I might add ).

**Old Geezer** · 04-03-2008, 14:00

Say Eikon, how in the world do you get so many kills with gunners/archers without them running out of ammo? Did you up their ammo? I just fought a battle with 2 units or turkopoles and each one got about 24 kills before running out of arrows.