Famous Battle sites on the Campaign map

[Hosakawa Tito]

Anyone notice the pewter color crossed swords on your campaign map? I wondered what they were, and when your hold the mouse pointer on them they show the date and victor of your biggest/important battles. Nice

[Mori Gabriel Syme]

Yes, I thought that was a great touch. I can't tell how the program decides that a battle merits such commemoration though. In my current campaign, I can't remember the battle for the only one involving my faction, but I didn't get one for thoroughly gutting an large assaulting force on one of my cities.

[TinCow]

I have had three so far, two I thought were deserved and one . The two deserved:

1) The first battle I ever fought with (relatively) large number on both sides. My commander in his speech stated that "one in four of our soldiers is here today" or something like that, indicating I had an unusually large number of my total units in the fight. The enemy had an equal number (though definitely smaller overall %). I won with a heroic victory.

2) I ventured an attack force out of a border fort towards an enemy city to engage a nearby smaller force. When I reached it, I found to my dismay that it had a MUCH larger army directly behind it, both of which would have participated in the battle, thus outnumbering me by 4 to 1. I didn't like those odds, so I abandoned the battle and fell back towards the fort as far as I could. The next turn, both enemy armies engaged me. First, the small one attacked solo and was beaten easily. Then the large one attacked, outnumbering me about 3 to 1. I fortified my position on a hill, defeated two flanking attempts with some rapid shifting of my cavalry and routed the enemy with my own follow up flank. 90% of the much stronger enemy force was destroyed with only the loss of about 25% of my small army.

The undeserved one:
4 units of rebel brigands popped up near one of my towns. I attacked with 4 blacksmith upgraded principes units and easily massacred them. I could have attacked with 8, but I didn't bother because I knew it would be an easy fight.

[Gregoshi]

I think Captain Fishpants or one of the other CA guys gave the criteria for these famous battles in one of the other famous battle threads. IIRC it has to do with the size of the army relative to your total strength. If your army contains a certain high percentage of your total strength, it ranks as a famous battle. So your famous battles at the beginning of the campaign won't be as spectacular as those later on.

[Mori Gabriel Syme]

That explains it then. It must have happened right after I landed in Greece & before I began building up my total forces. Thanks, Gregoshi.

[TinCow]

That's definitely a major factor, but it can't be the only one. When I got my 'undeserved' historic battle, those 4 units (maybe it was 5) were a tiny part of my total forces.