Any battles that you won

[Craterus]

My favourite victory, that I can remember, was defeating a Roman full stack with 2 General's Bodyguard Cav. I was the Spanish. It was large units, so I believe I defeated a 1000-strong Roman army with <50 General's Cav.

My army was actually roughly the same size as the enemy, but being such a cavalry-orientated general, I chose to just use my available cav (2 generals).

That story was pretty popular here about a year ago, it was a damn fun campaign too.

[Craterus]

It's good to see that I still possess the strange ability to kill a thread with my mere presence.

[ByzantineKnight]

It's good to see that I still possess the strange ability to kill a thread with my mere presence.

lol


As the Scipii I owned all of spain, and then Corduba rebelled with a half stack of Gladiators :(. They attacked my army until I could not flee anymore...

I had 2 groups of Histati, and 3 Town Guard here is the setup


GGGGGG
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H H
T T T

G - Gladiator
H - Histati
T - Town Guard

They charged their Gladiators into my peasants, and then I flanked with my histati, I forced 2 of their gladiators on each flank to flee with my first charge, then I wiped out the rest with my peasants

Ok, so it was not that great, but...

[jhhowell]

Suicide is harder than it looks!

BI, WRE - I've been looking for an army to suicide Emperor Valentinian into so my preferred pagan guy can become emperor. The ERE makes a surprise early attack and catch Valentinian in central Illyricum.

WRE: 36 Imperial German Bodyguards (understrength from overrunning rebel Spear Warband schiltroms the previous turn)
ERE: full strength units, 2 comitatenses, 1 eastern archer, 1 limitanei, the Scholae Palatinae, 1 Equites Auxilia.

Result: 13 bodyguards die, the only ERE survivors were ten (of 54) Eq. Auxilia who routed early in the battle. Valentinian is up to two silver chevrons now. There's a larger, lower quality ERE stack (mostly limitanei) nearby, maybe they can kill him off...

[jhhowell]

Part 2 of Valentinian's suicide attempts.

2 comitatenses, 1 eastern archer, 6 limitanei, 1 peasant - wiped out to a man, only three or four bodyguards killed. Same turn, he fought six units of equites auxilia, killing 80% and routing the rest, for about half a dozen bodyguards killed. Then Valentinian died of old age at the start of the next turn.

I'm thinking that BI general's bodyguards are just a wee bit overpowered...

[Tzar Dusan of Serbs]

Hi I have two battles which I will always remember...
First I was playing germans my army consist of 5spear warbands,one realy good general,one screachin women and one barbarian cavalry destroy entirly the 2full stack gaul army with 5family members and lot of cavalry and heavy infantry,my only luck was that they didnt have any forester warbands,so i post my army in half circle on the edge of the map and wait with my spearwarbands their stupid charges it was very hard becouse they have so much people,their cavalry break up my battle line,so i have a direct charge on the middle of the battle with my general and on the left by my barabriab cavalry,then when i saw that their morale is low i turned the warbands out of falanx formation and charge with them,finaly MASSIVE rout and heroic victory for my faction leader.....

And second which i like much more becouse i atack a full stack roman army(they didnt have general)but they have a reinforcment half stack army,I have a good Dacian army lead by good general he have a title mighty,but my army was outnumberd,so i have 2archer warbands,one elite swordsman,3 falxmen,2warbands and 2 tracians merceneiries,i atack first with flaming arows,than raised a warcry and focus charge on the midle with elite swordsman and falxmens this was the place where i fire up with my archers,with my tracians and warbands I atack their flanks and their cavalry so I could hold of their flanks and give time to my extremly strong middle,tjen I charged with my general throw the middle(i lose some soldiers,but it was for the greater couse)then their middle colapse and i send my general to pursue them and elite swordsman and falxmen to go and atack their flanks from behind,this was great massive rout,their reinforcments was routed straight as they joined the fight,this was my greatest victort becouse i was atacker and i didnt have cavalry or phalanxes to play like i usualy play hold of with phalanxes and then charge with cavalry,this was frontal charge and clear evidance that a good general is needed for great battles....
sorry for some eror in writting....