What a disastrous campaign...

[Dark_Magician]

Well, I had a town/city in southern france whatever it is called, when huge gaulish force finally arrived, actually two stacks. I had to get out of city and defeat them, because the leader of faction in that town was crucial. My units werent too bad, scirmishers, couple of archers, even couple of small siege pieces etc. But this was no way to win this battle, believe me, I tried. The gauls had scirmishers, cavalry and heavy infantry. If my forces went out of the gates the battle was over in like 3 minutes with the gauls simply charging in quite disorderly manner and squashing my units at the gates. Any flanking maneuvres with my general could not help, they just killed him, after all those gauls have no proper education in the fine art of warfare

Finally a cheat-like tactics worked: get out your archers, shoot a little, when they charge (and they are here in no time) withdraw behing the gate, they wont follow you inside, but would not stay just outside so you could shoot at them, you have to get out. Then accept defeat, when out of ammo. Then, when campaign map re-appears, attack sieging forces againg - archers have they missiles stock reloaded. This way the gauls were gradually reduced to sizeble force and eventually all the gaulland was mine.