The most heroic defence of Baktra
This morning I've played a quiet unique siege battle in my current EB 0.79 baktira campaign. I actually fought to the last man, my general, and won.
A full stack of 3200 Seleucids, mostly Pantodapoi spearmen and Pantodapoi phalangitai assaulted Baktra, defended by 1200 men. I could destroy their siege tower and ram, but two teams with ladders were sufficient to effectly assault the walls. The handful of Pantodapoi which could leave the burning tower was enough to kill all the archers of this units except 32.
All my infantry died fighting on the walls, so that only my 230 cavalrymen remained, and the Seleucids could capture a gate. At this time around 90 percent of their soldiers were already dead. My cav. could destroy their single horse archer unit and the remaining Pantodapoi descending from the walls, but the combined force of a fresh phalanx unit with their captain-general and 80 phalangites from the wall forced me to retreat to the central plaza. In this actions I lost around 130 horsemen. Fortunately the phalangites advanced in two separated columns, so could surround the generals unit and rout it for the cost of another 60 horsemen. My surviving cav. then fought the other Pantodapoi phalangitai unit until only my faction heir stayed alive. The last 41 seleucid phalangites now controlled the plazza and the three minute countdown started and all but one Bactrian soldiers were dead or wounded with man frozen in panic.
However through some manoeuvrering and repeated attempts I could convince the Seleucids to pursue my general and stop the countdown.
I lured them through the street between the temple and the palace to an uncaptured part of the walls were the arrows from one tower, manned by loyal townspeople, decimated and routed the Seleucids and my closest victory was complete.
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Originally Posted by Foot
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