What has been your SMALLEST battle?

[macsen rufus]

Hi Manco - I rather enjoy assaulting castles... I just love my artillery but the casualty rate can be atrocious. But then so's sitting it out. I find the AI rarely assults me if I'm under siege, but then again I rarely give it the opportunity, as I usually counterattack first year. Quite agree though, if the garrison is one man, assassins are the way to go You can't easily get it right - a garrison that can defend an assault will starve too soon.

Sieges are a difficult one to get right in this sort of game, as realistically we should expect one to last weeks or months, but the one-year-per-turn just doesn't accommodate that. At least it's better than in RTW, where the besieging army suffers no losses at all! I think maybe the attrition rate for besiegers should be higher than it is already, as historically sieges were very hard to maintain, due to foraging for a large army, unsanitary conditions etc etc.

[Innocentius]

Speaking on the OT about sieges: Yes, it's a shame sieges don't work all that well in MTW, especially since sieges were far more common than battles.

I've had quite a plenty of small battles, mainly against rebels though so there's really no interesting story behind them (an army of rebels step by step being worn down by the failing AI until they're so pathetically weak that I finish them off). Never think I've been down to as low as ten men in total though
The smallest I can recall was my 6 Horsemen vs. 13 Kerns (VI).

Generally small battles (1-3 units on each side) are among th funniest battles, probably since it's easier to attain victory when you manouvre in small scale. One of the funniest (and easiest) battles I've had was my two units of valour 3 Kerns (trained in that Irish province that gives the morale boost + a 4 star general) vs. 84 rebel peasants with an 6 (yes, six) star general.

[Jxrc]

Playing as the HRE and owing Friesland, my thee ships in the North Sea were sunk by the all-mighty last English ship (sounds familiar does'nt it ?)...

The next year the English invaded with one units of archers. I had two units of peasants and thought they would do the trick (one to charge head on, one to do the same from the rear). The archers did not run away when I attacked but charged my first units of peasants. Before the other an gone round, the first unit was already running away.... Second charge head on thus and same result ... They loss about 15 guys, I lost about 100 ...