Playing as the Romani, I was fighting for that city right above Carthage. I had it besieged with a full stack standard Camilliian army, and was attacked by two Carthage half stacks, one inside the city and one outside. So, when the deployment started I used my the usual manipular formation, and went to the edge of the map to get the elevation advantage. But when the battle started the enemy reinforments appeared right next to my men. I tried to run mine around, but for some reason my men abandoned the manipular formation and formed a straight line. The battle was going well, 7% of mine dead with 24% of theirs dead. Then their other half stack reached the melee, and those rubbishy Maure (sp?) skirmishers started attacked my Principes and Triarii. For whatever reason, these skirmishers were winning and routed my men. Despite routing most of their first half stack, a single mercenary unit of Pezhetaroi routed all my men over there, even with repeated Campanian cavalry charges from the rear. Then my general died figthing Maure skirmishers... just after I got the clip scene for when their 8 star general should have died... except it just showed you my man stabbing him and he ran on. So, his rubbish army refused to rout and mine chain routed. Oh yeah, and all the while I could hardly see what was going on because of a forest.
So I'm going to redo the battle tomorrow, this is the first time I have ever did this.
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