Hello everybody.
Earlier today I was playing my AS campaign and experienced one of the most disastrous battles I have even had in all my time playing total war. I sent my full stack army that has spent the last 20 year conquering rebels and the Ptolemys to go and take Meroe. Ive got a 9 star, impressedbycats, faction heir general leading this army of largely silver chevron or triple bronze experience and armour upgraded guys. I assumed that the garrison of freed slaves, Nubian spearmen, saba levys and Arabian skirmishers would be easy especially since I had sieged the town for a good 5 turns even if they did have a few chevrons, some elephants and a 10 star general.

Frankly I got owned…. 2 of six siege towers got burnt down along with my ram. When I finally got on the walls my kickass native phalanxes got owned by skirmishers. In one instance 45 Ethiopian swords men killed 110 native phalanx guys at the cost of 20 of their own guys even though my guys had upgrades and far more exp. This happened everywhere on the walls but after loosing about 55% of my men I captured the walls. Also strangely after battling for 20 minutes all the Ai’s units were still fresh. Then the elephants came to say hello…. Two full units of native phalanxes wiped out very quickly one elephant dead. My Jewish spearmen’s javelins seemed to do nothing and in total with all their javelins thrown killed 2 or maybe 3 elephants. Eventually the elephants were surrounded by the remnants of my army and killed but not before they some how killed my triple gold general.

At the end I got a close victory lost nearly 80% of my best army. This battle seemed seriously weird my elite units got owned the enemies were just ridiculous. Not even fighting the crazy stacks in Europe compared to this. Could I have made some sort of mistake? Could it be some sort of weird bug?

And now I have finished this long and probably boring post which has unfortunaly turned into rant… has something similar happened to anyone else?