Playing last night as the Julii (M/M) and thing were going well. I had conqured the Po valley and recently assaulted and taken Massala. ( I had taken a break from BI as I still can't get used to the units and wanted some fun last night).

Obvioulsy a strong force at the bridge just west of Masalla can stop some pretty strong Gaulish attacks.

So two generals, 6 Hastatii, 2 Triarii and the starting unit of archers were put on guard there.

Three turns later and a full stack of Gauls decided that they wanted back into the Po valley.

No new strategy for me just put three units of Hastatii on either side with fire at will on and the two units of Triarii at the end of the "tunnel". The archers I put off to one side of the bridge so they could attack with out having to shoot over my troops. they were also put on "fire arrows" to maximise the possibility of a chain rout.

The generals were put on either side of the Hastatii lines.

The gauls attacked across the bridge and their general was near the front. He hit the two units of Triarii and I was concerned he might break out (with me having no reserves) so I charged both generals in at that point.

Juyst as I did that - Boom. Their general bit the dust and three units around him routed. I immediatly changed where the generals were attacking to charge along the bridge and hope that the routing would become addictive.

It did.

I massacared them all...

Obviously nothing new there as many of you would have done this type of battle 1000 times over.

The amazing thing was that one general was in front on the bridge and thus got the majority of the kills. Of the 2,200 dead gauls on the battlefield 1584 were by my main general!!! He gained 5 levels of experiance going to a double silver chevron in ONE BATTLE.

I did not even know that it was happening and it was pretty chaotic! Anyone else have a killing machine story like this?