I have the ability to quickly forget moments of triumph.

I do remember 2 good parts to Medieval 2: Total War and RTW though.

1. Britain, defending a castle. I had just gotten Feudal Knights on foot, so I put them in the front line, my longbows on the wall. Repulsed the attack, had about half the force. Get them retraining, but get sieged with another group same size. Just manage to get that one off, holding in the square and just breaking them before I lost all my troops.

Then sieged for a third time. I had about 40 men left. (medium sizes) and I somehow held off a third set of attackers. It was an epic 3 hour long set of battles.

The other one was playing an Invasion of China mod. I was holding an Egyptian city, when I was besieged by 4000 egyptians. I had 120 militia, 120 base infantry, 200 crosbows and 40 chariots. I thought "bugger it, im going away" so i left it on AI.

The ai smashed the egyptians.