Most satisfying moment

[Zorn]

OK, I know it is a little poor to boost with a victory over the AI, especially over such a weak one... but nevertheless, that was awesome.

I was defending Messala against the romans. The Scipii had their usual army - lots of Hastati, some velites, very few cav. Mostly Hastati, so hey were much better equipped for a street fight then I was. They had more men than I had, about 2:1 if I remember correctly. And, on top of that, a juli detachment would also join the fun.
What I had was 4 units of round shields, 4 iberian infantery, 2 mercenary scirmisher, one unit of mercenary hoplites, a long shield cav and elephants both at half strenght and a general. Not so bad, but nothing that would stand up well in a long fight against the roman masses.
The city had only wooden walls, so I decided not to defend them at all.
A straight road lead from the gate right to the center.
At the entrance of the center, I placed all my infantery. It was really crowded, with 5 units in the same place, but I had to hold the line.
In the middle between the gate ant the center, there was a road entering in the street. There I placed all my round shield cav. If the romans would send all their troops right to center, the would be stopped at my infantery, at least for a while. Then my round shield cav can charge out of the road and hit them right in the flank/rear.
The romans did act as I wished, a seemingly endless stream of red and blue soldiers pouring throug the road at my lines. They charged in, pushed my lines back a little, but they held. Now it was all about timing. If I send my cav in too early, the romans morale would be still intact and my charge could not break them, and I would surely lose the following melee.
If I charge too late, however, my infantery line will be broken, and I might rout a unit or two, but that won`t be enough by far.
You might have guessed it - my timing was perfect.
When the first units in the front started to flee, the cav hit home at their rear, causing the well known multi rout.
So far, there is nothing special - trapping the AI, charging with cav, causing multi routs. We all have been there and done that. What makes this one special is that it happens in a very narrow road. I play with huge unit sizes, and I tell you, you cannot beliefe the slaugter. The romans led right into the charging cav, wich filled the road from one side to the other. I don`t understand why they didn`t fight to the death, since there was no way out, but I was quite pleased they didn`t.
The killing speed was incredible. I thnk my cav extinguished 6 or 7 units in 5 seconds. They died faster than I could watch it.
The one moment the whole street was crowded with romans - and the very next moment there was just my cav standing on a bloody carpet with this "did we do that?" look in their eyes.

[Hobotus]

Hehehe nice, too bad AI doesn't counter cavalry that are standing around the corner, by placing a unit or two in their way, instead of charing them all forward :(

[Lonewarrior]

When I took over Rome. LOL the SPQR only had 6 units, and I had my big army of 18 units.

AI sux.

[Hurin_Rules]

My most satisfying moment was when my Gothic cavalry tore down the Temple of Jupiter in Rome, and I erected a shrine to Wotan on the Capitoline Hill.

[Sir Toma of Spain]

My favorite victory was as the scipii
it was probobaly only my 3rd game and i decided to invade south gaul with one of my armies, i took Narbo Martius and then noticed a cute little 22 or 3 unit Gaul army, so i did what i always do ... attack. i sent my best general 2 units of principles and a few hastati, easy battle i thought i was wrong. Suddenly i found my self ambushed. It was my 240 men under a 7 command general against 1024 screaming barbarians charging against my unorganised column.
To cut a long story short i came out victorious, the Gauls lost there whole army and i was left with 9 principles and 5 hastati and a dead faction leader. I feel it was a bit of a loss - loss situation.

[Fridge]

Strangely enough, one of my most satisfying 'victories' was actually a loss. I had an army of about 1000 Britons caught between two Roman armies, 3500 troops between them. On the battle map, I managed to draw my lines up defending quite a steep slope against the first enemy army, only to start the battle and find the other army was starting practically behind me, on the same level of terrain.

It was one of those battles where you're constantly fire-fighting, reforming lines and moving units all over the place. Any 'plan' goes out the window and you end up fighting on the fly. I lost the battle - totally wiped out - but took 3000+ crack Roman troops with me. It felt more satisfying than most 'victories'.

[Prodigal]

Under siege by the Armenians, who had 800 troops they attacked after having put together 2 rams, in the wooden walled city I had a no star general, 2 hopolite units, one pelast unit, & two milita cav. all slighty under full str.

Normally I'd just auto resolve & avoid the humiliation, but figured I better at least try to give them a bloody nose, as I was losing on almost all but 1 front.

They attacked head on, & I sent the two hop units to hold the two wall breaches, while sending the 3 cav units round the side in the hope of routing a unit or 2 before being exterminated.

The 2 milita cav. managed to cause some minor damage to 2 velite units before running away, while my gen went down to 2 men within seconds, while I'm double clicking like crazy trying to get him out of the melee; he fled...In the meantime the gates are down & there's another breach just to the right.

Then things started to go right, the hop units held, my 3 cav units now comprising, 2 men (gen. unit) 6 & 10, stopped before leaving the field altogether. I regrouped them & started picking off the units that had been routed by the hop's at the walls. In the end their general fled & their entire army routed.

Of course the next time I tried to pull off an "against all odds number" I got a good trouncing, but hey you never know.