What's the toughest battle situation you've faced(and won)?

[gollum]

Clock is always off for me. The AI with it tries to win battles by it, and also he cannot bring his full force to bear if the clock is on, when he invades with more than 1stack (that happens often at the lower unit sizes, as there are many stacks around). Also, as many others said, teh clock is ultimately annoying in deciding battles at a point when they should have clearly gone the other way, both when you ought to have lost or ought to have won.

Too many good fights that i won on the edge to remember and list. Too many also that i lost on the edge, equally fun and satisfying despite - or because - of the loss. I feel the game has much more worth, when i lose fair and sqaure after a tough fight, and the total war AI of STW and MTW have surprised me in this way many times. RTW and M2TW - sometimes do, but far less consistently and spectacularly.

[edyzmedieval]

Waterloo in NTW, I was down to 18 men from a unit of Old Guards, the rest had died. Luckily, I only had to deal with a half depleted regiment of artillery left who smashed 9 men before they were cut down.

I won Waterloo with 9 men left.

[Samurai Waki]

MTW: VI

Me: Scots, 3 highlanders + 2 Archers, + 4 Peasants
Enemy: Vikings, Full Stack +5 Star General.

Had the peasants as cannon fodder in the open field, forests on either side of the line, Peasants held long enough for me get my archers and highlanders to get behind their line and take out their general. Chain routed the vikings, 6 highlanders left.

[Swoosh So]

Facing the elite clan in the shogun clan campagin on the slopes of bungo, that hill is like \ and very hard to attack vs experienced players. i was delighted that we won that battle in the camapaign and won the mighty province of bungo!

[DthB4Dishonor]

Played some hard 1v1 tournament battles and some great Clan War Belt Battles back in the day when I played this game and ran with RTK as RTK3Paul. However, my favorite battle had to be vs 7bear7Kuma I think not positive. Anyway he was defending and had the Byzantines in MTW1. I was Either German/Italian/French not sure but they were almost interchangeable. It was a heavily wooded map with large islands of woods.

He had the much better army for this as his Vanguard and other units were excellent melee units and would obliterate my cavalry or spearmen in the woods. He also had his entire army which was foot heavy in the woods with only his archers out of the tree line. During the initial archer shootout I had an advantage and rushed with some light cavalry to one of his archers and couple of times with attacks from both sides. Him protecting his archers sent his cavalry managed to get a couple of cavalry units from both of us engaged in open territory and sent in a couple of spear units which I knew were going to be carved up.

Now as the battle was going on I kept allowing him to have the advantage but forced him to commit more and more troops in the center to keep the advantage or he would risk losing a few units. Now the trick was to make him commit more and more outside of the woods. when enough units were engaged I rushed heavily FORCING him to send in his entire army or sacrifice about a 3rd of his army and have a good probability of defeat in long term.

While we were engaged he was winning but I was able to setup in a way to hold for a good amount of time. During all the other skirmishes I had managed to sneak 3 heavy cavalry units around from woods to woods and they were now directly behind him. When he finally saw them it was to late and I was able to take out his engaged general and route one flank causing mass route and cleanup duty.

[gollum]

Sounds like a great battle DthB4Disonour. Sometime being on the ropes at first makes you think sharper, while winning at first makes you loosen concentration or get attached to the favorable situation and being unable to adapt to any change that happens.

[Napoleon The Emperor Of Europe]

The Toughest battle I fought ,was when I landed my Selceduid army to attack rome.

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It was very tough,with only leaving a very little,i think I won,but I'm not sure.

Then,this was my other army,Carthage vs Rome,and I defeated the romans easliy on the hardest settings.

There Cavarly attakced from the back,I sent my Cavarly to deal with them ,the Romans outnumbered me,But I HAD THE sacred band,and the phoen inf,and some others.

One thing the romans kep t on doing,was charging my phalanx!I dont know why they fired those arrow shots.they kept on charging at me,and I was winning,the cavary dealing was done,the romans were retreating.

[Mithrandir]

We had some good times in MTW online Paul :).

RTK was a great, friendly clan...

I think I went by the name Glorfindel in the online games...you'd recognize me by my camel armies :)