My best battle yet....

[katank]

that's awesome.

the Spanish don't know tactics.

the arqs and arbs used well could have mowed down all your cav.

the jinettes could have skirmished your cav all day also.

good story.

reminds me of some jedi battles I had.

[Sinner]

Yah, the AI used incredibly dumb tactics, especially with the choice of what units to start the battle, in particular the artillery. If the Spanish had used 5 units of nearly anything that they had waiting instead of the nearly ineffective redlegs then I would have had no chance. Cracking the starting units is always a key in battles like this, even when exhausted, high quality melee troops can often decimate the reinforcements as they trickle in by catching them before they can properly manouver. With 5 extra units of real combat troops on the field at the start, there would have been no way for me to break through to the Spanish rally point.

Against a human I'd have been thrashed within a few minutes of course, so I'm glad it was the AI this time.

I just wished I wasn't playing ironman that time. Poor Prince John. *sniff*

[katank]

actually I had the siege thing work for me.

I got one of my stacks facing just 3 units of Byz jedis once (emperor and two prince) and got defeated.

It was a long bloody battle and unfortunately no tree cover for me.

I ended up having my units stuck in the fort and am wondering how the hell I can get my troops out of the mess but I didn't notice that the Byz jedi total was single digits.

amazingly, the Byz jedis all died due to besieger casualties.

Thus, I didn't have to deal with super high valor katas that could take out a stack.