What was your most heroic victory?

[Geticus]

Playing as Sweboz on VH campaign, Hard battle difficulty. In 242 I besieged Eburon with my 8 chevron 10 star 5 hitpoint warmonger general, leading a full stack of level 3 Germanic swordsmen and level 4 Chatti spearmen, with a few elite Baltic Medininkas archers, 3 Germanic light cavalry and a wargozes mercenary. The defender of Eburon, Diazenis, attacked me in the off turn with 16 level 4+ infantry including some neitos and the level 8 solduros bodyguard, along with 4 novice mercenary infantry which to my astonishment he hired in the offturn before he attacked. Those of you who play as Germans or Romani probably know of Diazenis, he hates everyone, generally has 10 command, his axemen, spearmen, and heavy swordsmen are nearly unbreakable and he commonly forms a buffer state between the sweboz and Rome due to the strength of his army. He was reinforced by the city garrison of Eburon consisting of 14 level 4+ troops led by a strong 8 star Brihentin general.

I took a defensive position around a small slope at the edge of the battlemap and slugged it out with Diazenis, losses were gruesome on both sides, especially for my spearmen, and repeated light cavalry charges to their rear did only moderate damage and no one broke until nearing single digits. Finally after the lines thinned greatly Diazenis died in a Wargoz charge to the rear and the remnants of his huge army broke one by one. The garrison of Eburon meanwhile had arrived and strangely took up a defensive position on a slight upslope just as I had done, and refused to move. I rested up fully and then had the elite archers shoot all remaining arrows into them to try and induce a charge against my strong position. They however refused to move and took only minor losses. I then successfully baited their non bodyguard cavalry into a charge and surrounded and killed them off with my cavalry. After that their infantry held firm, refusing to move at all costs and just hurling javelins whenever I came to close. So at length I led the remains of my severly weakened army in an oblique attack against their left flank, finally they shifted position and I was able to gain a level footing against them on the slope. After charging and harrassing their archers as they regrouped, while my troops were in some disarray, the enemy finally turned and charged en masse. The Brihentin enemy general charged my left along with some infantry, while the rest collided in a disorderly slugfest. I set my Baltic archer reserves to hold the right while my FM, swordsmen and chatti spearmen regrouped and joined battle on the left. After grim losses on both sides the Chatti spearmen killed the enemy general, and repeated cavalry charges incited a mass route.
I don't have the numbers, but although victorious I had severe losses, it was a huge battle with lots of maneuvering lasting well over an hour.

[miotas]

Playing as sauro's I besieged some backwater germanic settlement that turned out to be much stronger than I anticipated.

They sallied and I went into the battle expecting to do the usual horse archer expend arrows then flee, however after all the arrows were expended there were a few units who were severely weakened and wavering so I figured that I would take them out before I retreated.

Things snowballed however and before I knew what was actually happening I realised that I had a bloody good chance at winning.

I my tactics were to first expend most, but not all, of my arrows, then to split up the enemy's force and cause them to become exhausted, and then to use alternating charges from multiple sides.