What was your most heroic victory?

[Maion Maroneios]

Truth is, it must be harder to get Heroic Victories (with small casualties) with non-phalanx factions, especially when you're defending. Mainly because phalanxes tend to hold out forever (like my Pezhetairoi did in the battle I posted) if deployed correctly.

Basically, what I did is the following; Wanting to wipe any remaining Epeirote presence off the face of the Earth, I decided to launch an expedition in Illyria. Before I did, I "upgraded" my 2 standing armies, including Pezhetairoi, Peltastai, Toxotai and Prodromoi, due to the fact that I had recently created 2 lvl3 factional barrackses in Pella and Demetrias (damn 15,000 mnai). So I sent a spy and assassin to survey the area where I knew the Epeirotai hung out. What I immediately noticed, was that enormous army composed of, almost entirely, Illyrioi Thureophoroi, some Hoplitai and a couple of Paraktioi. Hesitant at first, I soon figured out they had no way of winning. The resons are simple:

1) They are not called Artificial Idiocy for nothing
2) The army was led by a captain, while mine was led by the very Basileus
3) They had no pikemen to counter mine
4) I basically picked the terrain to my favour
5) They had no missile troops to speak of
6) They had no cavalry

So (1)+(2)+(3)+(4)+(5)+(6)=Heroic Victory

Maion