What battles I mean here are custom battles+historical battles+ historical campaigns. In my opinion, all those customs (including the historical ones) are designed in such a way that you do not win by tactics or anything that depends on you. To win such a battle you are expected to find and follow the path the AI has in mind that will bring you to victory (do you understand what I mean?). Your aim is not to excell on the battlefield but to guess (or rather grope for) the way and follow the steps that only the AI knows (like how could you know that (playing the second battle of French vs English historical campaign) you would see the whole english garrison of the fortress will march away to let you have 100 men in it if you manage to do everything correctly (I did it only twice and still can't figure out WHAT I did).
It has been a long time since I played any of these but a grudge lingers. There were some (2 or 3) that I couldn't win no matter what. One was a custom battle with Vikings storming a Mercian fort. My forces comprised 2 Huscarles (or were they Joms?) and heaps of thralls at 0 valor. I sent my thralls first to bring down the gates, next time I sent axemen to do the same, then I withdrew to the edge of the map and waited for the onslaught, then I knocked several breaches in the wooden walls, then I placed the army in the semi-circle around the gate to be able to strike the sallying enemy in the rear (even killed their general a couple of times), I tried several deployments within the semi-circle swapping positions of thralls and axemen - IT WAS NO GO!!!Those thralls just routed too soon and the axemen were overwhelmed by sheer numbers.
One more impossible was the Irish storming a Mercian (how I love them) keep with their reinforcements coming over a wooded hill. I won't go into details about the tactics I used (invariably starting with destroying the reinforcements, though - perhaps, I should have let them pass within and join the picnic?). Do you have any tips on how to win those ones? And do you find some customs impossible?
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