Types of victories

[Darklion74]

In the limited time that I've played Rome: Total war, I've experienced three types of victories, Crushing, Clear, and Average.

What's the huge difference between the three, and how does one attain a higher ranked (ie. Crushing) victory?

[Craterus]

To achieve a heroic victory, you need to kill more of the enemy whilst not taking many casualties. If you are outnumbered at the start of the battle, this helps.

[katank]

The better the kill ratio, the better the VnV's will be. If you look through the traits files, the kill ratios serve as threshold for traits.

Overall, I get lots of heroic victories and then have a few ubergenerals who can win outnumbered 5:1 in quality and quantity. It's actually a bit of a cheat that human controlled armies can have such awesome generals.

One tip is to always continue the battle when given the prompt and use cav and even light infantry to hunt down every single one of those buggers. Improves your victory margin significantly.

[orangat]

The better the kill ratio, the better the VnV's will be. If you look through the traits files, the kill ratios serve as threshold for traits.

Overall, I get lots of heroic victories and then have a few ubergenerals who can win outnumbered 5:1 in quality and quantity. It's actually a bit of a cheat that human controlled armies can have such awesome generals.

One tip is to always continue the battle when given the prompt and use cav and even light infantry to hunt down every single one of those buggers. Improves your victory margin significantly.

I searched the export files and never found the 'kill ratios' triggers affecting victory status.

I'm curious how Kraxis got H.V's without being heavily outnumbered since I almost never get H.V's.

[symball]

Herioc victories are calculated on army strength not on numbers- (this is what the blue/red bar represents on the battle pop up.) therefore if you beat a small number of elite troops with a large number of poor troops you can still get a heroic victory. I believe it has been modified since v1.0 since I used to be able to get them with relative ease- now you have to really kill a lot of troops and suffer virtually no casualties to get that sort of victory. to get them it is best to try and get sucker the enemy into attacking you on a bridge or in a city centre- phalanx troops combined with archers really help here as they excel when the phalanx blocks a narrow pass or street with archers firing over the top into massed troops.- instant massacre.

[Watchman]

Heh. I once got a Heroic from a siege sally without ever firing a shot or landing a blow. I took my army out of a side gate, and when the Egyptians realigned their line to face me (it disn't seem to matter to them there was a quarter of the city and the wall to boot in the way) the right end of their line not only ended up not only within the range of the wall towers, but half inside one of those four-tower "kill boxes"... I watched with bemusement as the towers obliterated one unit of Eggy Chariots, three units of Pharaoh's Guards and two and half units of Pharaoh's Bowmen. After that the AI decided it had had enough and bugged out, so the casualties were a few hundred Eggy elite troops and zero of mine resulting in a Heroic Victory.

Poor, poor AI. I can't help but pity it sometimes.

[The Stranger]

To achieve a heroic victory, you need to kill more of the enemy whilst not taking many casualties. If you are outnumbered at the start of the battle, this helps.

crushing victory is the same as Heroic only the talker says you crushed the enemy and the afterstats says herioc

[Craterus]

Potato, potato.. You know the saying.

[The Stranger]

no i don't

[Craterus]

Ok then, never mind.