Types of victories

[Helgi]

It helps to be outnumbered, but not a need.
I have had heroic victories with equal armies and about 1:5 lossrate. Nothing impressive.

Your Place on the map and the field it's self count's for alot. Last night (playing EB mod), Playing Rome, fought Pontus with them coming out of the woods, but I placed my 2 horse archers and 4 skrimisher cav. on my right flank. To my center I put Celtic merc's, Samite Hvy. Inf, & some light inf whose name I can't remember with my General behind. On my left flank, Princeps, & Samite Hvy. Inf.. I charged with my Right flank pining the pontic skrimishers and let some of the pontic center to move in, a little on my right. At that point crashed my center into the pontic center and right with my left covering my center. By the end of the battle I surrounded the Pontic Army and cut it to pieces. Lost on 200 men and they lost 1000+, but what helped was using a steep hill and had 600 more men then them.

[red comyn]

Playing 1.6 patched BI last night, and curious thing happend(i'm playing the franks and the untit in question was WRE, VH/VH). The A.I. was playing silly buggers (nothing odd there then) by bringing the same unit of peasants, or in hindsight maybe a new unit every turn, almost up to my city and then when chalanged running away.

So I got used to sending my young general out to give them a push every turn, got lazy didnt check what it was and hit a WRE family member. Ah well he could do with a bit of a scrap says I and hits the autocalc button.

And this is where it gets odd, I killed 8 of his bodyguard, for the cost of 3 of mine and it came up as a heroic victory? go figure. any ideas why?