Ambush!!!!!

**dlundie** · 10-07-2004, 07:08

Always thought i was a really good general till i got ambushed by the Gaul, an entire army wiped of the face of the earth with such ease. This game keeps giving me some nasty surprises. Has anyone worked out a tactic on the battlefield to recover from an ambush.

**Jambo** · 10-07-2004, 09:17

I've played 1 and ghalf campaigns and only ever took part in 1 ambush. I ambushed the Gauls and slaughtered them.

I'd like to see the tendency to successfully ambush increased somewhat, especially for the AI.

**The Tuffen** · 10-07-2004, 12:07

I've only been ambushed once. The problem was it was one lone family member I was sending to govern a city against 300+ gauls. He took out about 20 and was reduced to 4 men. Thankfully he ran away before he himself was killed.

**Quietus** · 10-07-2004, 12:37

My armies have never been ambushed completely. However, I have a single unit reinforcement completely ambushed once (totally surrounded in a special map).

I escaped unscathed, but I couldn't withdraw. The enemy had to rout them off the field

**troymclure** · 10-07-2004, 13:42

I've been ambushed once after about six small campaigns and two big ones, it was during the first campaign and it gave me a decent enough scare to now always having a spy running ahead of my armies to prevent it from happening again.