I had 2 truely epic battles both sieges true. First was the taking of naples my venetian army had heavy cavalry both feudal knights cavalry miltia and mailed knights also had armoured spearmen and dismounted knights also lots of crossbowmen and some archers.The enemy had their king the heir and 1 unit of feudal kinghts also some 10 italaian speermilitia and 2 italian militia also some 3 crossbowmen. THe gate was opened by my spy .
This was a long battle the ai surronded some of my tropps i surrounded his it was a truely an urban warfare battle with units fighting in 5 to 6 places at once surrounding and being surrounded finnaly after 15 min (battle time) i managed to reach the outskirts of the town square with 50% of my heavy cav and 50% of my inf supported by the archers behind.the enemy king and heir charge. My men hold against them and a mass of militia after an all out melee lasting some 5 minutes i lose all cav and infantry the enemy loses the king and heir but still have militia some 150 my general is dead. adn alal my inf and cav with him. i have no more arrows i decide to charge and after grueling fighting with battered units. Only 2 units remain on both sies my peasent archers kill the last militia men i then exterminate the city with 10 archers.It was epic very thrilling and i could have lost it and won it countles times.
Second is my siege of constantinople also with venice i have some veteran mail kinghts (silver) some 5 units in all also 4 spearmen units and 3 peasent archers.
I had failed to notice that i was not fighting only the defenders but also a hungarian crusader army i fight on two fornts senidng the cav ot confront the hungarians and taking to the walls with my infantry i manage to slaughter some byzantine units before my m,en are diriven back by some pilgrims also my cav charges repeatevly on hungarian lines i manage to kill their general and also after being driven back from the walls outside the city i kill the byzantine emperor wtih arcerrs the day is lost but my men still fight.in a while my infantry is all dead but i have kille some 55% of the enemy force that's twice my own my kinghts fight on i charge the pilgrims with archers
my kinghts now reduced to 2-3 men per unit 12 in all are all 3 gold and are cutting through hungarian lines like butter making them run but they are too many in the end my general alone fights to the last in a mass of hungarian peasents cutting and slashing left and right vcovered in blood. All in all i lose 400 men and the enemy 1200 out of 1500 .I nearly wepped for my veterans.Even the ai seems to have seen they're bravery realisng some 14 captured men.