Quote Originally Posted by ReluctantSamurai View Post
Perhaps this has been discussed before, but there's always new situations that come up......

I'll start off with one that I saw in a recent Macedonian campaign.

I usually start with the short campaign and then continue into the 'real deal' if I'm still having fun with it. In this case, one has to eliminate the GC, as I'm sure you know. Well, I've taken every Greek city from Sparta to Rhodes and have my 15 provinces as well.

Still no victory parade Where the hell can they be hiding out? I sent a fleet all around the Med looking for their last outpost. When the fleet finally got to Sicily, there stood Syracuse, in all its glory with a near full stack of armored hoplites (what a surprise). I thought, what the......? the Scipii didn't finish them off after all these years? (there was no alliance between the GC and any of the Roman houses so I still can't believe it happened).

Anyway, I had an army ready to go, so I loaded them on a fleet and headed for Sicily. Just as I'm approaching, a Greek ship pops up in the harbor and 18 of the 20 units in the city board ship and head for Africa!?!

Now I almost always carry a spy aboard my fleets so I knew the exact composition of that army. I thought....better for me they're gone. My fleet will sink them if they try to return so this will be a cakewalk.

After off-loading my army to lay siege, I followed them to Africa just to make sure. Now comes the wild and crazy part........not only do the original 18 hoplites disembark, but another 3/4 stack complete with family member lands as well and they lay siege to Scipii-held Carthage. I watched it happen as it was one of those rare end-of-turns where the view didn't get distracted elsewhere and I had the map centered on the Greek fleet.

It was one of those rollonthefloorlaughing moments as the AI tried to pull a fast one to save the Greek Cities from extinction.

It didn't work, btw
All i can say is: MAP INFO DUDE