Battles to be remembered.......

**Lars Jorgensun** · 11-07-2005, 21:58

Describe some of your best or worst battles. I'd love to hear them. Gimme details!!!!!! Staggering odds, incredible losses, deaths of Kings and rises of new nations!!!

**Vladimir** · 11-07-2005, 22:10

If I could post screenshots from work I would give you the results from when the Kahn assaulted my fortress in Kazar. 3/4 of my army was destroyed but so was the horde.

**Lars Jorgensun** · 11-07-2005, 23:53

I love playing defensive seiges. Escpecially when I'm playing as a muslim faction, cause they get some pretty good defensive troops.(Saracen Infantry, and Jannisaries and AUM)

**Martok** · 11-08-2005, 05:46

Check out this thread; a number of us members posted some pretty good stories there. Enjoy!

**Budwise** · 11-08-2005, 11:10

Originally Posted by Lars Jorgensun

Describe some of your best or worst battles. I'd love to hear them. Gimme details!!!!!! Staggering odds, incredible losses, deaths of Kings and rises of new nations!!!

Worst battle, I outnumbered the enemy 3 to 1 and I had way better troops. I rushed into the battle HEAD ON without trying to flank and my general dies almost right off the bat. My army then routs within 4 minutes of the battle. I can't believe I lost. Its not like I rushed my general in by himself or in the first wave. I used him and only him to flank the side and he dies.

**Ciaran** · 11-08-2005, 11:44

Yes, that´s the nice thing about MTW, if you´re not careful you can still loose, even if the odds seem to be in your favour, some routing units and your whole frontline crumbles to dust. It happens far more often than in Rome, or so it seems to me. Dito, I´ve won more than one battle despite my army was already starting to run away collectively.

I love playing defensive seiges.

I seldom played defensive sieges, the AI usually starves out the garrison or the forces left are so paltry that there´s no chance to win the battle.

**Weebeast** · 11-08-2005, 12:22

LOL I love defending castles too, even if I know that I have no chance to win.

Speaking of remembering, this is a recent battle I had as the Scots. I bribed the longbows in Wales (I hadn't made Welsh a new faction) but on the next turn, just when they're under my banner, the English invaded Wales full power. It's only the fifth turn in the game and it's early so the english were made up of archers and royal knights. I was gonna capture him for extra money but it was impossible as I didn't have cavalry so I let my spears impale his arse. The king was a great fighter but his soldiers were not lol.

https://img487.imageshack.us/img487/2916/scots9gt.jpg

Well I had lots of cool battles but I can't remember them lol.

**Patron** · 11-08-2005, 21:31

Eh? What's going on here?

I've saved quite a few battles involving 20 to 80 pictish elite berserkers and royal bodyguards destroying entire armies of mercians and such like. I tend to use AI stupidities as much as possible to prevent being flanked. If you can get berserkers into 1 on 1s they are practically invincible, but if they are flanked the kill ratio goes down from around 1:10^500 to 1:10.

**miho** · 11-08-2005, 22:36

I once had a battle with little less than 6000 enemy soldiers against my 3950. I only used my 500 knights. In the end I killed over 3000 enemy soldiers and lost less than 50.

Before the battle:

After the battle: