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    I had two bannerfulls of troops such as liblan spearman, poeni infantry, iberian infantry, long shields, round shields, and a few elephants, as well as 3 family members. I went up against half a bannerfull of triarii, principles, and 4 0r 5 family members. I could do nothing but weep, as the enemy infantry decimated mine, and their generals routed my elephants and then the worst of all...my stampeding elephants charged into my infanry, getting killed by the enemy infantry and falling on top of my men. 2 of my generals were slaughtered by theirs. but my other general, Theagus the Conquerer, killed 3 of theier generals, but I deemed
    the battle to risky, and withdrew him from the battle with his remaining 7 bodygaurd. (unit scale is on huge) He and about 200 of the infantry and cavaly that routed made it safely back to Capua. So much for an easy conquest of rome.
    I was carthage and my enemy was the senate.
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    I was playing the Carthaginaians and had recently taken Carthago-Nova. The peasants revolted and shooed my army away. They had a bunch of peasants in their army, witha few spainish scuutarii, most with gold chevrons and stars. I counted them littele, they were peasants right? My army consited of 2 generals, about 10 of the sacred band infantry, a few peltasts, and a couple of sacred band cavalry. I auto-resolved andd lost everybody...so of course i swore and beat on the desk...but I later calmed down and reloaded the campign. I fought the battle myself this time and was doing fine, inside the city, few casualties, and routing peasants everywhere. I made it to the city center, but with nobody running, my troops were drastically reduced to less then half of my original number. The enemy had a fraction of their original units to. I summoned up my remaining troops qand surged the city square. Mistake. My infantry was dwn in a minute, followed by my auxilaries, which included my general. But I remember that I had left some infantry by the gate and rushed them over before my generals died. They at least were able to kill the remaining enemy. Phyrric victory. However, the troop numbers in the settlement were so low, the peasants revolted again and landed themselves the same breakneck troops.
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    When I was playing the Brutii, thgings were going well. I had conquerd most of greece and was about to move on the macedonians. This was in the early days before i knew not to charge pikes. I brought my army, A bunch of hastati, some dogs, archers and a general, against theirs of pikes and compainons. Disaster. I caharged their pikees with my infantry and was losing men left and right. By the time my infanrty worked past the pikes, their cavalry surged upon my infantry and took them out. I thhen tried my luck withe the dogs, but ther cav had moved behing their infantry and my dogs were slaughtered by them. My Archers were slowly running out of ammo, when thier cav bum-rushed my general. Instant painfull death. My archers were soon assaulted and quikly defeated. I lost my best general that day and I swore revenge upon the macedonians. I never truly defaeted them untill after the marian reforms and I got urban-cohorts.
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