The Screenshots Thread

**Mailman653** · 04-16-2009, 03:31

My glorious defeat

The last stand

So I landed an army on Tripoli and took the capitol quite easily. After a few turns I decided to send a quarter of my army to Tunis which I mistakenly thought was undefended since the previous turns the Barbary Pirates would send rag-tag units of no more than 250 towards Tripoli.

So I decided to recruit a new general and send him off with two cannons, one unit of long rifle men, and some other units to take Tunis. So I clicked end turn and on the Pirates turn they sent an almost full stack of soldiers to intercept my army. I knew I was heavly outnumbered but I decided to play on rather than retreat.

At the start of the map I was able to position my army and arty behind a wall which was behind another wall. To my right was a fence and to the left open ground. I set my arty up in the middle with my marines to the left and right. I also sent my riflemen to the right and built stakes to protect my flank. Lastly I dismounted my dragoons and decided to send them to the right which sooned turned into a game ending mistake IMO.

My arty started their fire into their lines and when they finally reached the first wall and began to climb over it, I unleashed a deadly volley and then provided continuous fire to the enemy trying to approach my guns. I manged to route two-three of their units this way, once they were close I switched to cannister for the duration of the battle. The enemy then concentrated their main attack to my weak right while sending a token force to the left and a few units up the middle. I think had I kept my dragoons behind my guns they could of lasted a little longer as they were eventually over run. I had my cav unit support the melee going on to the left flank and eventually my right flank once the enemy broke through. I tried to keep as many units fireing and avoiding hand to hand combat but the Pirates just swarmed me and I had to commit almost all my units at one point. In the end I only had one unit left who I was able to deploy behind the melee brawl and fire some lead into them before getting over run and eventually retreating.

My men fought bravely to the end!

**Roy1991** · 05-05-2009, 12:42

The Royal Navy appearing from the fog

This pirate fleet, nearly a full stack (forgot to count

, but it were 16 or 17 ships at least) had been blockading my port in Jamaica for several turns, blocking nearly all my trade from NA. So, I decided to sent my European fleet over to take care of it, as I had no warships in the area. (As soon as my fleet arrived in NA however, Spain, Prussia and Sweden decided it would be a good time to start blockading all the ports in my home region

).
The pirate fleet consisted mainly of Galleons and Race-built Galleons, with a few sloops and Fluyts.

After firing a few volleys, the battle quickly became a mess, with both fleets comp-letely intermingled. In the end, all pirate ships were sunk or surrendered, without losses on my side

**Vlad Tzepes** · 05-12-2009, 22:52

Just 2 screenshots.
First, a battle somewhere in Africa, those camel gunners managed to somehow garrison a building, but left one outside:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Second, just a nice Indian party waiting near a collapsed building to be shot to pieces.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Mailman653** · 05-27-2009, 04:59

Party like it's 1649!

**Didz** · 05-27-2009, 18:47

Regiment von Riedesel goes toe-to-toe with the American-Dutch Rebels at the Battle of Williamsburg. The British under McDowell barely scraped a victory but the battle ended the American rebelion.

This screenshot shows the 'blood and smoke' mod to good effect, this was only after about three rounds of musketry.

The 2nd Foot (Queens Regiment) about to give the rebels a taste of British steel.