What was your best battle? I have to say it was a massive siege I was under. Seleucids (me) vs. Greeks (ai). They assaulted me with six siege towers, two battering rams, and four ladders.

I had an army comprised mostly of phalanx pikemen, though I had a few podromoi, and about four units of peltasts. The Greeks had three units of Spartans (I was amazed, the ai rarely gets those units), and other assorted pikemen, along with peltasts and cretan archers.

It's hard to describe how the battle went, but I have no timers on, and I turned off the ammo limit (mostly to my detriment), and the battle lasted roughly an hour. One of their battering rams reached the gates, the other burned. I was desperate then. I knew I would lose if the walls were breached, so I sacrificed a unit of podromoi, who managed to rout the battering ram carriers (oddly, no other unit took it up). The podromoi were than killed by the general unit.

My peltasts fired from the walls, and most of them being in the gold chevron range, I killed the generals unit fast.

The siege towers moved in closer, and only one burned. I moved the peltasts to fire at the ladder people, and my pikemen to guard the places siege towers would land. Four siege towers, and the remains of four ladders on top of my walls and the attackers were better quality. I was holding out when I realized I had missed the fifth siege tower, which had gotton onto the walls and taken the side gates. They then proceeded to rush for the city square. I had all my pikemen on the walls, and only podromoi on the ground, not good for taking out spartans in a city. I took two of the phalanx pikemen on the walls and tried to rush them down (not nearly enough, but all I had unoccupied).

Meanwhile, the Spartans reached the square, and the timer began. I ran my podromoi from four different directions. One attacked the rear, another waited until the Spartans turned to get the rear threat, and then closed in, attacking from the rear again. The two side units waited. The first unit of podromoi was decimated, and down to twenty men shortly after the second unit attacked.

They soon died, and the other unit of podromoi began to get in craploads of trouble. I ran the other two units of podromoi behind the Spartans, and attacked from the rear again. This time I had some nice results, though I still lost all my podromoi.

By this time I had my phalanxes down, and my podromoi were dwindling. I took them out of phalanx and rushed one around to the behind of the sparts, where I reengaged phalanx. The other unit rushed forward. They arrived to see the last podromoi die. By this time, I had regained the the gates with a unit of peltasts, and my towers were relatively clear. I was doing some mild skirmishes in the outside, with my mercenary horsemen (thank you Sarmatia). My only real problem were the Spartans in the city square, with over forty men left. My triple silver phalanx approached from the front, and the double gold chevron from behind. I really wanted this to be a good hammer and anvil, but both units did not amount to many men. Seventy five in the front unit, and little more than a hundred in the rear. But it was my only chance. I couldn't get other reinforcements there in time.

I attacked from the front, long enough to grab their attention. Then, I came in from the rear. The Spartans died very slow, but surely. In the end, my front unit lost all their men, and the rear unit lost over half of it's men, before the Spartans finally routed (at two men), I chased and killed them, then got my glory as I watched the rest of the enemy army retreat.

I had beat them, outgunned and outnumbered. (Though being inside the walls did help. )

Any stories from you guys?