battle between horses and shocktroops

[Peasant Phill]

So I fought the battle and right from the start I saw it would be hard to minimize the casualties. Only one forrest worthy of that name and it lay behind the Danish line, no real hills and apparently I miscounted the RK's (there were 6 units).

It seems I'm more of an armchair general. Casualty count: 328 dead and captured Danes (including the king) to my just over 300. Unimpressive I know and you haven't heard the worst part: I lost my 4 star general.

How this was possible?
Like I said there was no decent defensive spot that I had access to. Secondly when I tried to lure some RK away their line didn't break but they came 'en masse' (so far the 'divide and conquer' tactic). To make matters worse my mounted Xbows did lure two units of RK's away when I was ordering the flanking of the Danish right flank. Unfortunately my general (RK) was at that moment positioning himself in the back of the Danes. I noticed the attacking RK's to late to evade them and the uneven fight began. The fight was steadily going my way but my general found himself with a rapidly decreasing number of bodyguards. I charged in with my Xbows but they couldn't save the emperors brother and at the end of the battle they even got routed. After some more king swarming he went down and what was left of his men fled.

Every cloud has a silver lining (or however this English proverb goes). the rest of the Danes went rebel and I made a good deal when I bribed them. I disbanded the bribed landsman, the viking and 11 spearmen but I kept the 3 royal knights that survived (two 3 star generals and a 2 star). I'm moving them in order to retrain them. And as a last token of good luck and the Lords favour the Italians rebelled so I can fulfil my GA goal without excommunication.

[Kommodus]

It seems I'm more of an armchair general. Casualty count: 328 dead and captured Danes (including the king) to my just over 300. Unimpressive I know and you haven't heard the worst part: I lost my 4 star general.

Ah, don't worry about the casualty count; that's to be expected given the numbers and types of troops involved. As I said, achieving parity in the number of casualties on each side was a realistic, achievable, and perfectly acceptable goal. You still have most of your army left.

Pity about the general, though. It hurts to lose a quality man early in a campaign. At least you got some 3* men in return; add a star to each and you've come out ahead.

Overall, not a bad performance at all. Congratulations!

[Peasant Phill]

Thanks but I feel really stupid about the death of my general. Normally I hold him back and only let him join in in the end or when I'm in a pinch. Because he was the only decent cavalry I had I wanted to use him immediately but sloppy pathing kept him from fulfilling his goal. At least he died as a hero taking on double his numbers in knights.