"The AI Strikes Back!"
Well, as you may be thinking, is this related to Star Wars? Yea in a sense, but its Rome Total War.
So here's the lowdown towards the battle...
Gaul declares was upon the Julii family, attempting four times to take one of their four cities.
Lucius Julius was the faction heir, & a good student of the brother of the faction leader. He was at every battle with his teacher, his Uncle, under his command, learning.
After a few battles, he gets command of his own army; protecting his people while his father ran the wavering Empire to strengthen it.
His father dies, & he becomes the faction leader. He targets Gaulish family members in ever battle that they are present. He personally rides their flank, or charges head on into the enemy forces with his loyal Roman light calvery to kill the Gaulish nobility.
He kills two cousins of the Gaulish King in two seperate battles, and in another heading North past Arretium, he strikes down with his bodyguard the Gaulish faction heir.
After returning to Arretium & re-training his men back to supreme battle condiditions, he rides again, & makes war against the Gauls who started it, slaughtering over 4,000 in Gaulish armies.
Spies locate a prize possession to be had, the new Gaulish faction heir just 50 miles North East of Arretium.
Filled with hatred & excitement all the same, Lucius forms together the greatest army of the Julii, filled with the best updated units & weapons of the pre-marian age, and heads out with his son, Marcus Julius, to teach him the ways of battle as he was taught by his Uncle in the previous years, along with the newly wed in the family to one of the Royal daughters, Augustus Flaminius, and 17 units of the best soliders in the current Empire.
Crossing the Northern bridge of Arrmenium, they head to strike the Gaulish heir stack, to claim yet another crushing blow to the Gaulish nobility.
The Gaulish heir is filled with hatred, knowing that the enclosing Julii emperor had slain his brother just one year earlier, and two of his beloved cousins in the field, not counting the thousands of gaulish soliders who fought for their king, but knows what awaits the Julii leader, so gives it no more thought, & turns East to do other things.
Just five or less miles away from the flank of the Gaulish Heir army, the Julii Prime Army led by the faction leader, faction heir, & the new family member, are marching steadily to take on the Gaul's....when suddenly...
They are ambushed! Out numbered, & flanked from the left & right, while being attacked from the front, while marching in a straight line, Lucius is dumbfounded as to what to do, and orders his surrounding men forward.
While they hold off the enemy, he is trapped in a circle of dying soliders. At last his men break a hole, & yell of their beloved Emperor to escape through it.
Marcus (heir) & Augustus order the only portion of the army that wasent hit to march forward to help the dying Romans, but 3/4 of the army was already in ruins & dying fast, refusing to run away.
In the distance, a horn is heard, and a small military of 600 men approaches, Lucius knows that this will be the end of his prime army & the destruction of his campaign to kill the Gaulish heir, but then notices, that they are green indeed, but not Gauls, but the Brutii!
After five minutes of hard combat, the Brutii are destroyed, their Captain killed, and flee being massacred; but the reinforced enclosed Julii now have the edge, as their archers are pounding the Gaul's with everything they have, and the Prinicipes are killing all that they can in a frantic rage.
Lucius, Marcus, & Augustus make it to safety without a man lost from their guards, but see that the battle is turning, and if they were to charge then, they would have a fighting chance! The advisors of Lucius tell him to flee, to save himself so he may rule the Empire & return to avenge this day, but he holds his head up & as a Roman should, & states "I'll die here before I flee!", him, his son, & Augustus charge into battle.
This is Augustus' first battle, after the Guals are in complete utter retreat, there is over 400 of them to still be slaughtered. Lucius & Marcus kill many, but are dumbfounded at watching Augustus' mad rage, screaming terrifying yells, striking viciously with his gladius up on his horse. They watch as he runs down over 300 men with his unit alone.
They miraciously won the day, but suffered over 700 losses. I dont have any screen shots, but when I saw this, I was like "holy crap!" (didnt think crap tho heh), but they still won.
After the battle, I marched on & attacked the Heir stack, I sent Lucius on their flank, & flanked the general unit which was compacted with a ton of enemy soliders in the main battle, & actually killed him, another Victory for Lucius.
At present.. Lucius, Marcus, & Augustus are seiging the Gaulish King's city, and he will not be spared. I'm not sure, but I hope that this is the last of the Gaulish nobility, because if it is, their faction will be destroyed, and the AI just labeled them as the most powerful faction!
Here's what went down at the ambush fight. I was utterly amazed at the AI, some complain & say its not smart, well here, it whipped my butt!
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Their latest battle was a joke, it was 2300 Romans vs 3500 Gauls, after the battle The Romans lost 37 men and only 2 Gauls had survived, the same turn only earlier they lost another 2500 men with the same results. So basically their army of almost 6000 men vanished in 6 months without inflicting any casualties 
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