Little monuments?

[NightwindKing]

Alrighty so, Ive searched for info on these and cant find it, at least not by the search terms Im using.

At the start of a Date campaign on Normal, I fought three battles in quick succession against the neighbor in Udo. After one of them, in the mountain gap between our two provinces, a little stellae/pillar model appeared next to the road near my army. Hovering over it with my mouse cursor displayed a box saying "Battle of ____, 1540."
I'm assuming it was a monument to the battle. But how the heck did I get it? I have not seen a single one yet in my Shimazu campaign on hard.

My first though was I'd accidentally clicked 'record game' and it was a symbol of a battle recorded there. But I havent tried again to test it.

Second idea was that it's the site of a historical battle that I ended up fighting 'in spirit' totally by accident.

Anybody know what that was and how to get it again?

[frogbeastegg]

You have to win a legendary victory, then you get a monument recording the battle's details.

[NightwindKing]

So what exactly constitutes a "Legendary Victory"? I'm pretty sure the forces were rather even in that battle.

[Monk]

The type of victory you claim at the end of a battle is determined by your k/d ratio. I'm sure you've seen it on the end battle screen, where it offers you the chance to save your replay. "Close victory" "Clear victory" and so on.

Typically winning a big battle, and winning in a big way by killing a lot of the enemy, will get you a statue on the map to record the event.

[frogbeastegg]

In addition to kill/loss ratios, I think it helps if you are outnumbered. That's where I have won most of mine. If you have the larger army you will almost never win a legendary victory. If the armies are roughly even, it seems like you have to barely lose anyone while killing most of the enemy; I've had battles where I have lost around 100 and killed over 1,000 and not been awarded it.

Legendary is a lot harder to get than in the older games, which is a good thing. It felt like I used to win legendary status in every second battle in RTW!

[NightwindKing]

Gotcha.

Yeah I've been getting quite a few Heroic victories recently, but no legendary ones.

Last battle I, the enemy had about 500 more men than I, and I routed them after about five minutes. Got a heroic victory. Then they fled and holed-up in a castle. Took it with 200 casualties, and lost no generals, and it was called a 'costly victory'. Go figure.