What's the most factions you've seen in a single battle?

[Kamakazi]

Wow, that's pretty impressive Kamakazi. Out of curiosity, which faction were you, and who were you going up against in that battle? And how did it happen that you were facing four opponents in the same province? Was it in a centrally-located territory that touched 5 different factions, or were you facing multiple Crusades/Jihads?

I was the.....polish i think...... and i was against The Golden horde, Byzantines, Russians ( i think) and turks? lol it was a bit ago and yea it was one of those provinces everone wanted at once..and i just happend to have it at that time

[Peasant Phill]

A 4 way battle was the biggest one I've encountered. Me (English), the HRE and the Byzantines against a larg rebel force. The rebels (mostly peasants) retreated in the woods and we, the allied forces looked at each and waited for whoever would make the first move.

The HRE sat themselves down and I (being on the rebels right flan moved only a portion of my force (I was cavalry heavy so I only used a few hobilar units to bait the rebels out of the woods). The Byzantines decided that they would bore the brunt of the attack.

It ended with the Byz loosing a large portion of there army and me gaining the province. They shouldn't complain though as I won the battle for us by manouvering my royal knights and hobilars in the back of the rebels main line and killing a large portion of them including the general in the first charge. After that it was just mopping up.

[r johnson]

It wasn't Medieval but the Napoleonic total war. Me (the English), my allies the Dutch and Saxons attacked a French army in Franconia despite this our armies were still out numbered.

[Martok]

Peasant Phill: Interesting. I don't know that I've ever been in a battle where three allies faced a rebel army at the same time. Which province was it that you were all attacking?


r johnson: Very cool. Out of curiosity, what kind of numbers were you and your allies facing?

[macsen rufus]

I wonder if anyone else has noticed this, but I've found that the game can get a bit confused over enemies/allies, sometimes. A case in point, Ive been playing a Norse campaign in BKB recently and had just taken a couple of provinces in Iberia, and moved on to Morocco. The Spanish (Castillean-Leonese in BKB) were initially my allies. They launched a Crusade one year, used my ships to get the Crusade to Morocco, and the next year they back-stabbed me, trying to take (IIRC) Cordoba from me. That same year the Egyptians counter-attacked Morocco whilst I had the Spanish Crusade sat there. Here's where it goes wierd....

On the pre-battle screen it showed the Spanish as ALLIES (even though we were now at war), and true enough, in the battle itself they deployed as attackers and my cursor rollover was red, so they were enemies. Anyway, they ran away once they saw the size of the Egyptian horde.

A little later on, the Spanish sued for peace as "it benefitted neither party". Their Crusade was still stuck in Morocco, and this time the Egyptians AND the re-emerged Almohads attacked. Pre-battle screen showed me on one side, the other three on the other side, with the usual note that the Spanish have also joined the battle and intend to take the province for themselves (which was a bit optimistic, they had been wittled down to about 50 men by now, and the combined Muslim forces were over 6000..... ) However, when the battle started, they deployed as defenders, and had the yellow rollover as expected.

So basically it looks as though the pre-battle screen stage can get it wrong, though the battle itself does seem to be true to the actual strategic situation. Confusing, nonetheless.

[Drunk-Monk]

Great story, Macsen Rufus

. They launched a Crusade one year, used my ships to get the Crusade to Morocco

How does the AI use your ships? I have never experienced that before.

[macsen rufus]

Crusades can use an ally's shipping route so long as it reaches a port belonging to that ally, and the ally has a chain of ships that would shorten the Crusade's route. I've TRIED to use that for my Crusades, but every time I do the dam' useless allies go and break the chain of ships, and it's back on the road with tired aching feet

[r johnson]

r johnson: Very cool. Out of curiosity, what kind of numbers were you and your allies facing?[/QUOTE]

The allies (me) were around 1000 with me being around 300 of that and the French were roughly 1500 however we had cannon and they did not. Btw it is possible to get more than four factions fighting but the only way I'e ever done it is man made, made up battles.