The biggest battle you have fought?

[Atraphoenix]

I felt that it would nice to have some info or maybe a competition like thread.
AFAIR the maximum size of RTW was 6000 unit but I have fought many that exceeded it.

so here is mine; total soldiers deployed : 6450 siege of alexandreia-ariana thanks to my loyal ally bactrians, in fact ı am sure that they were looking for the city for themselves we have vanquished the garrison of Arche very easily

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Please if you have some aars like this please send i will not be mind if you break my record

[desert]

I wrote about this battle in a thread called "Most Glorious Victories", so I'll just summarize it here.

My vast Germanic horde of 35,000 descended into the Alps and ended up in the Po Valley. The local Celts assembled and several vast armies totalling nearly a hundred thousand men attacked it. Three seperate forces, three battles within 3 days that in later times was known as "Battle of the Lelantine Plain Mt. Desert.

In the final battle's climax, several dozen (hundred) super-Solduros were left to fight against the nonexistent tatters of my force, but they managed to hold until a few Speutogardozez returned from the edge of the map and drove into their flank. There were literally only 10 (100) Germans left standing at the end. After healing, I got back over 550 (5500) and retreated back into friendly territory. Soon after, the army and its FM got bribed, so I just RPed it as the few remaining survivors being picked off in the high mountain passes.

I lost 3000 (30000) men, and the Aedui lost something like 8000 (80000).

[A Very Super Market]

Well, once, for kicks, I made a 20 unit phalangite army, and sent it out for the local Ptolie full-stack.

Thats 4840 men only on my side, right there, and I would hazard a guess that the Ptolies had around 3000.

7840 men in one battle? I don't quite remember...

[SwissBarbar]

From my AAR:

Massacre of Nabataia


Short:

1 Galatian army of 25'000 Celtic/Galatian Warriors + Mercenaries
1 Sab'yn army of 25'000 Sab'yn Warriors
1 Arabian army of 20'000 Arabians
1 Numidian and Ethiopian force of 10'000 warriors, mostly cavalry

80'000

vs.

75'000

1 Ptolemaic force of 35'000 men, Royal army, many elites
1 Ptolemaic force of 40'000 men, native Machimoi troops
1 Ptolemaic general with 1'000 men, who thought the Numidians were on his side



Out of the 155'000 warriors, about 98'000 died. Victory Galatians + allies.


Details + Pictures:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=203



Battle of Sequallra

1 army of the Haedui, 33'000 men, Celtic Warriors from Mrogaedu
1 army of the Sequani, 27'500 men, Celtic Warriors from southern Sequallra
1 army of the Treveri, 36'700 men, Celtic Warriors from northern Sequallra

97'200

vs.

88'300

1 army of the Nerves, 26'300 men, Belgae warriors
1 army of the Bellovaces, 33'000 men, Belgae warriors
1 army of the Remi, 29'000 men, Bellovaces' infantry and 9'000 Remi cavalrymen.


Out of the 185'500 warriors, about 120'000 lost their lives. Victory Belgae tribes.


Details + Pictures:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=103


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[Atraphoenix]

wow you broke mine lots

I only remember such battles in vanilla. when huns assaulted constantinople in BI ı had around 800 comitatentes huns attack more than 4 full stack IIRC aroun 4-5 thousand but they had captured my beloved capital that made me cavalry maniac since that day, but yours have already passed it too

[SwissBarbar]

in Medieval II I once fought a battle with an army of elite archers against 21'000 peasants , if I remember correctly that was freaking laggy, but I won *GGGG*

[Atraphoenix]

in Medieval II I once fought a battle with an army of elite archers against 21'000 peasants , if I remember correctly that was freaking laggy, but I won *GGGG*

must have been a very good shooting practice for your elites

[SwissBarbar]

indeed

[Olaf Blackeyes]

lulz

[NIKOMAHOS]

Near Syrakousai...
3500 KH phalangitai, thorakitai, sphendonitai and cretan archers with one hippeis xystrophoroi fought against 3 full stack Roman Armies with 3 Family members(8000 men mostly cohors reformata and vigiles).
Yes, only my Xystrophoroi left the battle ground with 1500 kills.
All Roman FM were burried in Syrakousai and a Roman Eagle is still in my palace there...
If i remeber well i lost 300 men vs 7600 Roman bodies...

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Mine was against the Super-Indies, i think it was the fifth time i had attempted to conquer Ebornum. I had something close to 4 full stacks, or IRL terms, 37000 men, vs the two superstacks that they produce or 31000 men. I lost. I managed to take out BOTH of their ****ing generals but i STILL LOST!!!!!!!
In the end i came away with 6000 men, they had 15000.

[desert]

Want to know how to conquer the Central Europeans easily? Just assemble 2 or 3 mercenary stacks led by FMs, then buy all visible Eleutheroi armies in the province and evacuate them to your border. Once you have the last one (you should buy the one with the super-general last), use it to besiege the city. It's preferable to have a spy in there, but if you don't then just build siege equipment.

The many other stacks you already have should arrive to siege the city in the same turn, or at least the very next turn. Then just attack with the super-general's stack and autocalc. You will almost certainly win.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I remember one of my battles as Romani when I fought against 3 Sweboz armies on a brige. The thing is that one Sweboz army entered the battlefield behind my lines(sometimes AI manage to pull some clever moves on campaign map). In the end I managed to reduce their armies to 20% but still lost.
I think I had about 1500 men while they had about 5000. For me that battle was disaster because (a) it was so laggy and (b) I lost an army of veterans. It took about 5 turns before I managed to get another army there to replace the one I had lost.

[Tellos Athenaios]

The biggest battle I have ever fought was a custom battle, and a test to see what my computer could handle. 8 factions, full-stack (20 units) armies composed of levies and such like (the 240 men per unit whenever possible, with a few). So that makes it about 36K. (Mind you, deployment becomes a bit tricky because the map is about 4 times too small to comfortably spread out your units.)

[desert]

What the-

My computer lags so badly if I have a battle with even a quarter of that! Something like 1 FPS.

Don't-don't tell me you had no lag...what are your PC's specs?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Note that RTW didn't exactly recommend this battle setup, though: it starts complaining at about 7K that this 'could impact performance'. I did have slight lag, the worst was rotating the camera because it forces re-computation not just of the entire screen, but also of (part of) the world surrounding it. However, ordering troops wasn't laggy at all (the biggest lag by far occurred between the keyboard and the brains) and neither was the AI.

Specs are a 4870HD, the 1GB DDR5 edition (it was only 10 or 15 euro's more expensive than the 500Mb version not such a bad deal) from Club3D who have had their way with it first (they replaced the stock cooler with an massive piece of aluminium and fan) coupled to an Intel E8600 with stock cooler and some 2500MB of RAM for RTW on its own. Perhaps I should try that application header setting mentioned elsewhere. Might help stability.

[Ibrahim]

I recently fought a battle in the IJ3 alpha (yeah! I got the Alpha ), 1500 arabs vs. 1800 sassanids-militia level troops and up to regular vs. all elites from sassan. I somehow managed to win, inspite of the for once brilliant AI general, who sent waves across the battlements where my men were, inflicting 20% casualties, and nearly capturing the capital of Al-Hirah.


In EB, the largest was between seleucids and pontos (I am the former); I won, 1600 to 1550. not much of a battle.

[Ca Putt]

mine was the siege of Kyrene(me as KH holding it).

Me about 2600 men

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3 Toxotai
2 Kretikoi
3 Sphendotai
2 hoplite phalanx
2 Spartans
2 Peltastai
1 Arkontistai
1 KH-FM

1 Hippeis
1 Lonchophoroi
1 Xystophoroi
1 Hellenic General

Ptolies
1. stack: somewhat more than 4000
mostly cheap phalanxes and skirmishers and an FM

2. stack mostly hand infantry less than 1000 men

Kart hadast
1. stack half elite half crap ~3000 men with FM

2. stack mostly skirmishers and cavalry ~1000 men(came very late tho)

it was sort of an advantage that the Ptolies attacked from E and SE and theCathies from W and NW which let me focus on one part of the battle, otherwise my Pc would have lagged dreadfully :D

I won, the AI is ****ing stupid when it comes to sieging cities

[Chirurgeon]

I remember one of my battles as Romani when I fought against 3 Sweboz armies on a brige. The thing is that one Sweboz army entered the battlefield behind my lines(sometimes AI manage to pull some clever moves on campaign map). In the end I managed to reduce their armies to 20% but still lost.
I think I had about 1500 men while they had about 5000. For me that battle was disaster because (a) it was so laggy and (b) I lost an army of veterans. It took about 5 turns before I managed to get another army there to replace the one I had lost.

Sounds like your version of Teutoberg Forest :(

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Sounds like your version of Teutoberg Forest :(

You can say that. If I only would have looked more carefully where those Sweboz armies enter the battlefield I would've made things differently but I didn't and thus the army that entered behind my lines, on the same side of the river, kind of surprised me.

Edit: Also this is the reason why they are still alive in my Romani campaign. I had too many enemies then and had no chance to focus my resources so that I could fight against them. The result was a peace that did not satisfy me cause they had some strong armies still left that appeared near my border about year after we signed peace.

[miotas]

my biggest battle ever was in vanilla when i put half a dozen 9chevron gold shield gold weapon berserkers up against 7 full stacks of peasants to see what would happen.

in eb my largest battles are usually when i siege a town with a full stack and then an enemy full stack arrives to break the siege, usually 7000+ in those battles, occaisionally as high as 10000