Post your biggest EB battles

**The Stranger** · 02-06-2012, 17:04

In this thread you can post a report with stats or a screenshot of the biggest EB battles you have had.

I do not have any to post right now but that will come later.

To reminisce, in MTW1 I have fought a battle with 60.000 troops (The epic defense of Constantinople with 10.000 vs 50.000 crazy French men at arms!) and in RTW:Vanilla I fought a battle as the Romans vs the Egyptians in which I was attacked several times by full stack armies. In the end my two full stacks, together about 5000 men fought off 20.000 egyptians in 3 battles, including some stacks with elephants!

**rickinator9** · 02-06-2012, 17:58

I have played some battles in vanilla where my 10 unit brutii stack needed to stand against like 4 macedon stacks. I was besieging Larissa with a FM, and when I pressed end turn a macedon army attacked me. I killed them and another came and so forth. I don't know how many I killed, but it were a lot of men, as macedon didn't have any strong resistance in the campaign after that.

**Brave Brave Sir Robin** · 02-06-2012, 19:20

If we count multiplayer we have had 4v4's with several thousand men on the field, possibly even 10,000, I'm not sure atm. For example we replayed Raphia in which one member of each team (1/4th of the total number of players) controlled only 20 units of various phalangites and these only composed part of the phalanx line! There is a replay kicking around somewhere although you would have to modify your files to view it.

**Arjos** · 02-06-2012, 19:24

Yeah, as Rob pointed out, EBO eclipsed any major battle I ever had in EB :P
Still there were those endless stacks in the mid-turn, which attacked the same army of mine: those were pretty intense moments in my campaings ^^

**Lazy O** · 02-07-2012, 10:58

Raphia; I was excellent in that battle *whistling*

**The Stranger** · 02-07-2012, 16:58

I meant in the campaign :) obviously its possible to play very big battles in the multiplayer!

Im mostly interested in big pitched battles, like 4000 vs 8000 (on huge setting) or prolonged combat, such as where one army is attacked multiple times in a turn without being able to retrain, or call in reinforcements others than those who are immediatly present.

**teoman10** · 02-09-2012, 18:23

Even though it was not a single battle, i had to defeat 11 FULL STACKS in one turn of gold/silver chevroned rebels in east germany because of some weird spawn bug.

All i had was 1 stack of roman legionares, there was about 300 men left after the battles :D

EDIT: And since were talking about non single battles. My invasion of baktria involved 13 full stacks of romans :D

**The Stranger** · 02-09-2012, 19:27

ye thats what i want to hear about :P the 11 full stacks count as 1 battle since it was in 1 turn :P

but ok i understand what you mean Brave Robin but i was just talking from the perspective of 1 army fighting a superior force (or just multiple full stacks partaking in one battle). if we talk historically, you can say that Hannibal had his campaign against rome, its all very interesting but i want to hear about Cannae and about Trasimere. ofcourse they are in perspective and in line of the campaign but its not what im asking for per se.

**Brave Brave Sir Robin** · 02-10-2012, 04:46

Originally Posted by The Stranger

ye thats what i want to hear about :P the 11 full stacks count as 1 battle since it was in 1 turn :P

but ok i understand what you mean Brave Robin but i was just talking from the perspective of 1 army fighting a superior force (or just multiple full stacks partaking in one battle). if we talk historically, you can say that Hannibal had his campaign against rome, its all very interesting but i want to hear about Cannae and about Trasimere. ofcourse they are in perspective and in line of the campaign but its not what im asking for per se.

Gotch'a. I can't recall massive battles in EB on the scale of ones I had in Vanilla. As the Seleucids I remember the Brutii just spamming full stacks in Greece. When I landed my elite army at Athens I had to fight off about 12 full stacks in one turn. Crazy stuff. Thank the gods units routed quickly in Vanilla :p

**teoman10** · 02-10-2012, 10:12

Originally Posted by Brave Brave Sir Robin

Gotch'a. I can't recall massive battles in EB on the scale of ones I had in Vanilla. As the Seleucids I remember the Brutii just spamming full stacks in Greece. When I landed my elite army at Athens I had to fight off about 12 full stacks in one turn. Crazy stuff. Thank the gods units routed quickly in Vanilla :p

Lol, thats the awesome battles. they could involve about 50 000 men! that should make the rivers run red wiht blood.

**The Stranger** · 02-10-2012, 11:19

Originally Posted by Brave Brave Sir Robin

Gotch'a. I can't recall massive battles in EB on the scale of ones I had in Vanilla. As the Seleucids I remember the Brutii just spamming full stacks in Greece. When I landed my elite army at Athens I had to fight off about 12 full stacks in one turn. Crazy stuff. Thank the gods units routed quickly in Vanilla :p

yee nill had crazy stack spamming :P i had a similar thing which i mentioned in the OP when i invaded egypt, but it didnt involve so many men as yours i think XD

**seleucid empire** · 02-25-2012, 15:20

ive had quite a few massive battles in EB as Seleucid. it was 200 BC and i invaded italy. the next turn my faction leader was surrounded and attacked by 3 fullstacks of romani. luckily i replaced my faction leader's army of horse archers with a newly recruited army of elites from greece and the romani armies were half filled with vigiles. the legionaries ran into my phalanxes and my hypaspisati annihilated the vigiles leaving me with a heroic victory with like 7 000 kills. my faction leader died after taking Rome and i recruited an army of mercs for the next faction leader who went to Roman controlled (except one province) spain. he regularly faced 3 roman virgil stacks at a time and sacked every city in spain before gifting to lusos (who then got so powerful and backstabbed me =[ ). My current faction leader is campaigning in Roman germany and once again facing virgil stacks.
The lusotanians also engage my armies in huge numbers (3 fullstacks) against my army of local italian hastati and lugurian spearmen except they actually use elite units as well as those tough belgian spearmen

On a different campaign as KH, i sent my royal army to sack alexandria but the yellow fever suddenly surrounded me with around 10 000 men and i got a crushing defeat with my faction leader killed (ai was smart, they attacked my fleet before attacking him)