dropping rocks...ridiculous things in battle

**HopAlongBunny** · 01-12-2006, 12:46

My favorite memory of artillery on the battlefield has to be blasting my general with a culvern

**matteus the inbred** · 01-12-2006, 12:55

your General? whoops.

perhaps it was a classic management 'and what does this button (or fuse, if you will) do' moment...
or 'no, no, Sire, don't stand THERE...<BANG>'

**antisocialmunky** · 01-12-2006, 13:42

Catapults are really good for general/king killing as the rocks seem magnetically attracted to them.

**Subedei** · 01-18-2006, 10:53

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Catapults are really good for general/king killing as the rocks seem magnetically attracted to them.

Yeah, that is right...2 5-9 star Generals, a few Golden Bands and 2-7 Catapults on the bridges over Nile & that is it....I am playing Carthage & hold Egypt vs. gigantic Egyptian Armies trying to come back 2 their birthplaces...and I don't know how many Generals of the Pharao were killed by a flying, burning mass doping on his chariot.

Well, a few Golden Band Infantry men were hit by these too...sadly enough....

**The Darkhorn** · 01-18-2006, 15:18

You know, I have never had artillery kill a general. Maybe I don't have the same bug. Actually it's cause I rarely target the general, preferring instead to fire at the second unit in a bunch of units. A short bounce hits the first one. If it's on target or goes long, it hits the others. I did after reading this thread target a general in one of my last battles with a 5 valour catapult. Nothing. Just some casualties (it was an anglican jinette).

**Lanemerkel1** · 01-12-2006, 14:58

Originally Posted by matteus the inbred

your General? whoops.

perhaps it was a classic management 'and what does this button (or fuse, if you will) do' moment...
or 'no, no, Sire, don't stand THERE...<BANG>'

lol

General Loyalty Management?

**matteus the inbred** · 01-12-2006, 15:09

Originally Posted by Lanemerkel1

General Loyalty Management?

what, don't betray the empire or you too can have a completely innocent-looking accident with some artillery...!

i think one of the Scottish kings managed to blow himself up too...James IV maybe.

**ajaxfetish** · 01-13-2006, 00:46

Originally Posted by matteus the inbred

what, don't betray the empire or you too can have a completely innocent-looking accident with some artillery...!

i think one of the Scottish kings managed to blow himself up too...James IV maybe.

James II in 1460 during the seige of Roxburgh. He was only 29 years old, and the first Scottish king to adopt cannon for siege warfare. He died when his wife came to visit the siege: he was personally firing a cannon in her honor and it blew up on him. Ah the dangers of trying to impress womenfolk.

Ajax