The EB book of comedy battlefield errors

[LusitanianWolf]

Love this threat.


One big fail that happened to me was in my last Pontic campain where I had a very old general that fought something like 90% of my major battles until then agaisnt both ptolies and seleukids and that was comanding one of my two main armies by himself... By that time I had control of all asia minor and coastal syria and he was pushing my way into Egipt. So I thought that it would be better to give him a trustable second in comand, just in case something would happen to him (treachrous greeks) and sent a young, promissing general to give him a hand....

First battle and the young general get himself killed somehow against some low tier infantry... -_-' while the old one keep pawning the Ptolies as he allways did.
Until he died from old age many years later but not until all of northern Egipt was consulidated under Pontic rule.. Ah, the good old tough fox he was.... RIP