Defeat (sob!)

**Geezer57** · 12-17-2008, 00:56

Originally Posted by Turbosatan

I set up my Voynuk swordsmen in front of three ranks of Shielded Bowmen; on the flanks I had four units of Pavise arbs (two each side).
Everything went swimmingly with Cumans being decimated en masse from controlled missile fire, until the prince charges across the bridge ...
End result: Cumans 1 Serbs 0.

You didn't have any Voynuk Blades in your roster?!!?

They're a near-clone of Swiss Halbardiers, and would have cut that Cuman Prince into tiny gore-covered ribbons...

**Roark** · 12-17-2008, 06:15

Originally Posted by Geezer57

You didn't have any Voynuk Blades in your roster?!!?

They're a near-clone of Swiss Halbardiers, and would have cut that Cuman Prince into tiny gore-covered ribbons...

*ahem*

Originally Posted by Turbosatan

I was a bit green with the Serbs & didn't really know their unit roster that well

**Geezer57** · 12-17-2008, 22:15

Originally Posted by Roark

*ahem*

My bad ... it's just that they're one of my favorite units. I hate to see someone not sharing my enthusiasm.

**Martok** · 01-05-2009, 06:18

Oh, I've definitely had a few good ones.

There was the time my Spanish king personally led an invasion of Sicilian-owned Naples (I'd lost patience after the Sicilian navy sunk my ship for the umpteenth time

). I drove off the Sicilians in the first battle, but was then unable to repel the counterattack of the combined Sicilian-Papal army that appeared 2 turns later. Lost a lot of good troops, and had to pay a hefty 66,000 florins in ransom to get my king back and the survivors of the second battle.

Lesson learned: Never, never, never, never, NEVER send your faction leader on a naval invasion....especially when he has no direct heirs at the time.

Also, I've lost to the friggin' Mongols more times than I can count. Took me months of playing before I realized that I should really stop trying to defend Khazar and pull back to Georgia/Kiev instead.

**caravel** · 01-05-2009, 15:58

When I was still new to the game, one of my worst defeats was when playing as the Turks and taking on the Byzantine too early on. I remember in one battle, charging 3 units of vanilla HAs uphill at an isolated unit of Treb Archers. The trebs did not let off any volleys but instead charged the HAs downhill and routed them... the rest of the battle went similarly well...

What was left of this foolish "invasion force" then returned to Rum only to be met by a Byzantine Jedi prince from Trebizond. Which of course resulted in the loss of Rum, in turn resulting in the usual collapse of the castle and demolition of all the best buildings. Next turn the Eggies invaded Syria and/or Lesser Armenia, and it was clearly time for my 2 influence, unhinged loon, good runner, pervert Sultan to emigrate, etc, etc, etc.

**gollum** · 01-05-2009, 21:09

Had plenty the most spectacular of which when was new and had no idea what all those flags carried by certain units were...

Just had one in STW when i deployed a force of Naginatas, gunners and SArchers in a flat close to the AI deploy without knowing what the enemy army was - unfortunately it was a spam of WMs that chewed the Naginatas routed the archers and guns and killed the Daimyo that was leading...

*There is no shame in death in battle it is the way of the warrior*

!it burnsus!

**HopAlongBunny** · 01-06-2009, 05:10

I've had many but one stands out.

Bridge battle; got pav arbs, ms, feudal spears/swords and a decent general...how can I lose?

The attacker is 2 RK's and a pile of garbage.

The enemy commander charges across the bridge with the other royal in tow; the supporting cast takes its time. My spear unit vapourizes, the militia sergeant sent to engage the royal starts to run; the arbs start to run...shortly the entire army is running for the exits

All I can say in my defence is...it was a short bridge