Greatest Victory

[ibejeph]

TURBO, your right, the computer never practises any strategy or tactics, so imagine my surprise when they formed an alliance AND attacked in unison. The biggest mistake the computer made was letting the 3 other units of German Royal Knights go off and chase down my HA. It took them out of the battle and allowed me to keep the two armies in check. By the time they had chased my HA off the battle map, their King was dead, his armies routed and they were staring at the shiny spears of my Saracens.

[Proletariat]

I don't understand this. Why do the archers appear to have full ammo left?

[The Stranger]

gaul vs julii 6 vs 1800 casualties 6 casualties from own missile fire

gaul vs brutii 2000 vs 6500 with reinforcements 2times/is 3 armies
casualties 850 and a dead king vs 4200 casualties and 3 dead generals
it would be much more if there wasn't a mysterious breach in my walls
see the wall mistery thread

thats not my greatest in mtw spain vs almohads 20000 vs 7000
500 casualties vs 4500 dead

[The Stranger]

gaul vs julii 6 vs 1800 casualties 6 casualties from own missile fire

gaul vs brutii 2000 vs 6500 with reinforcements 2times/is 3 armies
casualties 850 and a dead king vs 4200 casualties and 3 dead generals
it would be much more if there wasn't a mysterious breach in my walls
see the wall mistery thread

thats not my greatest in mtw spain vs almohads 2000 vs 7000
500 casualties vs 4500 dead

[Arrowhead]

Right back again,Hereafter there was a bloodfest of romans fighting back and my soldiers getting slowly pushed back, I thought nooooooooo they are going to win and threw in my last 2 reserves, my chosen archers and my berserkers (who threw themselves in ON THE FLANK! Ouuch berserkers on your flank.)
They started running in their thousands with the gothics slaughtering them.

[starkhorn]

Well yes my favourite battle was a victory but it was such a silly battle is the reason that I remember...so not strictly my greatest victory....just the battle that I remember the best.


So I'm Egpyt VH/VH and I'm at war with Selucid and I'm moving towards Antioch. I have some nile spear's, some archers, slingers and some bedouin camels. Facing some chariots, lots of Phalanx's and some light greek cav from the Seluicids.

I was outnumbered about 2-1, it was a bridge battle and I was attacking. The only reason I went into the battlefield was my army was commanded by my 8-star Pharoah and theirs by a captain (god it's really annoying when the AI does that. after I won I found the Antioch garrision commanded by a 4-star general with only 300 troops...why wasn't he out commanding the 1000+army?!?)

Anyway, I deploy as usual for a bridge. Archers either side and I got 1 unit of spears to cross.

I got half-way across the bridge when the selucids sent cav and chariots against me.....so I halted my troops and decided to wait on the bridge for him and let me archers take his troops. Well what happened next was just silly. the Chariots didn't align properly to the bridge and most of them drowned....ever more silly was that this was the general unit. His cav properly routed at this and that was the pattern for the whole battle. I never had to move my spears unit once......and only 1 time did an enemy unit make it to the spears before they routed.

1 or 2 units would come up to the bridge, get killed by my archers and then rout. Remember I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE ATTACKER, but all I did was sit there (this a bug or something ?)....

Anyway I was happy as I was expecting a tough battle....eventually I got the message that I had won and whether I wanted to continue battle. Well I decided to continue so I clicked on my only cav unit which was my Pharoah who had been sitting on my side of the river all through the battle. Ordered him to hunt down the routing infantry and I sat back awaiting the slaughter............of course what occured to the AI also happened to me. The pharoah's chariots didn't align properly to the bridge and most of them drowned in the river....including my 8-star Pharoah...

I was gutted but I couldn't stop laughing at my own stupidity. Guess I'm just as 'smart' as the AI then.

Cheers
Starkhorn

[th3freakie]

Honestly, my best victories were not those where I gave no chance to the enemy, but those where I almost lost.

Problably the one that deserved the "Heroic" title the most was when, in a Carthage campaign I'm still playing (normal/normal), I decided to meet the latest Julii armies sent to conquer Sardinia on the field, confident that since the army size was more or less equivelent I wouldn't be too hard. (1k to 1k or around that large size units)
I enter batle and understand the enemy is hiding in the forest - no big deal, I have more cavalry and can still outflank them, so... go infantry, engage and then cavaly will follow.
Problems:
- something went wrong when selecting the army or moving it, so the only present General was lest behind
- Even before the cavalry could flank anyone, almost all infantry routs - what gives?
Then I realised... sardinia is poor and small and underdeveloped and.. you get the point, no real armies can be trained there.
I was fighting using Town Watch and Peasents!
The General had to run around stoping routing units and the cavarly (brought from the mainland of course) was heavely reduced when forced to hold the line agaist the Julii.
Long story short, with some sort of divine intervention, I manage to win the battle, get them routing and even use the couple of horses left to clean some filthy red romans on the run.

That was a great victory! (and explains why that "gauge" before you enter batles showed things so bad for my side)

After a couple other "heroic" defenses of the island, I reckoned it was starting to be too expensive to maintain such a small "city" without even a port (and that wouldn't get one if I kept on recruiting in it) so... I abandoned it. Until it becoms profitable again at least.

[Arrowhead]

Best Battles:Five units of tanked up forester warbands against hordes of peasants, need I say more?

Another:
Germania vs Rome
In my usual 9 line formation, warhounds in three lines at the front with chosen archers at the very front and after the hordes of hounds, axemen, then chosen axemen, then spear warbands with berserkers gaurding the flank of each one (sometimes I change the last three round) then screeching women and last of all the gothic cav and the general.
Roman super steamroller came to me at the top of my hill with legionary cohorts, and they outnumbered me.(BTW no cav at all! )
They came up the hill dying in their thousands from the chosen archers arrows, who promptly retreated behind my gothics and got hit by the wardogs and kept going, got hit by the second line and kept going, got hit by the third line kept going and then my screechers started up and 6 units routed.Finally they made their way up the hill, exhausted, and into my arms of my axemen who warcryed and smashed into them . The romans broke through but I already had warcryed my chosens and thudded into them, sendind them reeling. My chosens were hacking their way into their lines and this was exploited by my spear warbands. OOPS Gotta go sorry!