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    Pet Idiot Member Soulflame's Avatar
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    My best moment so far was the Battle for Corinth at the start of my Greek campaign.
    I had 1 unit of Rhodian Slingers, 2 of Creeeesshhian Archers, 2 mercernary hoplites, about 5 hoplites, 2 peltasts and 4 militia Cavalry I think (could have been greek cavalry).
    The bad thing was that the enemy (Macedonians) had 5 units of Light Lancers, and the general as cavalry. They had the same number of hoplites and 1 unit of archers, no peltasts.
    I needed to kill that opponent cavalry, so I devised several small plans. I put my archers in front.. and when the lancers were close, moved them behind my hoplites. That unit of lancers was killed half and then fled. Next 2 enemy lancers moved past one of my flanks (the right actually), trying to turn into the back of my hoplites and peltasts that were there. I had anticipated this and wuickly wheeled my slingers around. The peltasts were send in melee to hold the lancers there. One unit of Creshian archers also launched a few volleys there. Those 2 lancer groups were routing too (although my peltasts fled too). About now the main body of the hoplites reached eachother and it was an aggrevating attrition fight, as both sides were almost equal (don't know if they had any upgrades, I had weapons bronze only). Their general and last lancer group each tried to flank a side.. unfortunately, with the peltast gone, the cavalry ran straight through to my slingers. I send in my general and hoped it worked. It did, I killed the enemy general and that group was routing. Unfortunately, from the other side, the lancers had run straight past all the exposed backs of my hoplites, right into my general. My general unit was almost wiped out by that first clash, and my general fell. I deperately send in one of my remaining militia cavalry as a shock and that broke them. When I looked around, most of the earlier routed lancers were fighting my cavalry and kept hit-and running and then routing again, only to come back again.
    I figured the only way to end this was to win the hoplites war (which was still going strong). So I sent some cavalry in their back and they routed. Only to have my cavalry be hit by the once again rallied lancers. Lucky for me, they crashed through my cavalry, into my hoplites, and that was the end of those last lancers.
    The Macedonians fled the field.

    Tally;
    800 of my 1100 men killed
    1100 of their 1400 men died.

    The remaining enemy army was more then happy to return to the fields after a little nudge by my diplomat. And Corinth was mine.
    This was a battle in which tactics played a large role, instead of the normal: I have better/more troops and I just win.


    Edit: Another nice battle was 8 units of town watches + silly general (no command) vs a gladiator rebellion of 4 mirmidillo warriors.. They just couldn't kill enough
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    The glorious Carthiginian army had just conquered Alexandria, and were feeling pretty good about themselves. Then they noticed a huge force of angry Egyptians massing for a counter-attack. How to hold the city and defend, without allowing the Egyptians to lay siege? We needed to delay for as long as possible.

    I put four units of Libyan Spearmen (cheap phalanx-types) some mercenary skirmishers and a good general on a bridge, and waited for the onslaught. If I could just slow them down ...

    They attacked. My first bridge defense in RTW. Libyans, defend the bridge! Aaah! They're shooting arrows. Oh, okay, they're not killing us ... much. Stand your ground! Aaaah! They're sending in their spearmen. Stand firm! Hold the line!

    Okay, this isn't so bad, we're hanging on, and our javelins are taking a much higher toll than their arrows, this might work ...

    OMFG, the enemy prince got impatient and charged his chariots through his own men to get at us. He just knocked half his own force into the river, and got himself slaughtered when he reached my massed phalanxes. He destroyed his own infantry, and now all I have to do is send my general's cavalry to mop up their demoralized archers.

    Not only have we stopped the filthy Egyptian army, we've annihilated them! And all because the poncy, powdered prince of Egypt couldn't stand the wait! Victory! Carthage shall rule the world!

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    Finding out that I could still whoop the French. I mean, the Gauls.

    Hail Britania andst thou heavy chariots!
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