Heroic battles that you have won (or lost but made them bleed badly)

[Spart]

This thread is for all who have a battle story that made them feel proud of their skills when they gained a victory in face of impending doom or made the enemt bleed so much that their attacks on a city had been blunted.

For me it was in the city of Tylis I had to defend against a bunch of filthy barbaric Dacians with their super heavy infantry and archers.

I started off the battle by placing archers on the wall (duh) and I got my infantry outside in a large group so that they could withstand a hectic barbarian onslaught my cavalry I had placed right behind the city gates that was right behind my infatry

Press the Start battle button and I rush the infantry out as the Dacians pull back to safety from the Archers, because I love playing with arhcers I rushed them all out at once and by doing that the Dacians came at me with a vengeance, I waited until the right moment to charge my cavalry, but I was also trying to put my archers on the walls and the gateway became jammed. So after I had managed to pull all my units behind the walls to stop further casuslties the Dacians again pulled back to avoid archers.
I then made all infantry with more than 15 men go out side the wall and my cavalry go out side, I took my archers out one at a time and set them to flaming arrows (barbarians and elephants hate the flaming projectiles), Luckily while I was getting slaughtered I managed to do some of my own and it was severly weakend units versus sevrely weakend units except for two units of 50+ chosen swordsmen (2 silver chevrons each), So I et them come at me one at a time and the flaming projectiles made their moral low and started routing when getting to my pitiful frontline of +/- 50 men and +/- 34 cavalry, End result was 75% losses on my side and 80% losses for them (Thank G-d for the arrows that kill men when they get to close to the walls or elso I never would have beaten the second army, and thank you G-d for Good Brutii discipline) , That will teach them to mess with me They shall now bow down to the Roamn Yoke after betraying me

[Warluster]

I had about 54 Roman horse guys, was charging around the place cleaning up rebels, when I walked into an ambush, about 800 of them! The ambush failed (Funny how that happens) and I lured them to the edge of the map, where I then hid, they came charging in, and I hit them from behind, man that was good! I think they were Gaul.

[Abokasee]

One Battle I was Armenia's (yes can play them with a little twicking of the game) I had About 960 Armenian heavy spear men, 112 cataphrick archers, 240 of those really cheap spear men which eastern faction can recruit (120 in each, not pike men) and 1 generals body gaurd (late period) Vs the eyptians who had 1 eyptian general in chariot, 2 groups of chartiot archers,2 groups of axemen (IMBA IN vanilla 1.00 so update ur game) 8 groups of standerd spearmen and 1 mercanary elephants!

So what did I do I put all my Heavy spear in phalanx and got them all around me general in box, with cataphrics and cheap guys out side... the cheap guys, I did the only realy desicion, send against the merc elephant, the cheap guys lost 220 (both groups had ten) but they took all the elephants, by then the cataphric archers took out the general and the axe men, leaving the enemy spearmen into a meat grinder (which I won easily) with my much better equiped and armoured heavy spear men

Result victory

[Somebody Else]

Playing as HRE VH/VH, defending Arhus (only with arrow towers) against the Danes. A full stack army, including many high era units - mounted priests, dismounted feudal knights, pavise crossbowmen, sword staff militia, and loads of trebuchets and catapults. I had a 3/4 stack of mainly halberd militia and crossbow militia, a few spear militia and a couple of ballistas too.

I lost it, but not until they'd lost about 85% of their men. The walls were completely destroyed, piles of dead in the streets &c.

Next round I walked in with a few units of knights and took it right back.

[Orb]

EB.

800 Elite Armenian Cavalry (400 HAs, 200 Cataphract/weak general cav, 200 medium/skirmisher cav) and 720 infantry (cheap Celtic mercs)

against

4,600 highly elite mixed Greek Phalangites and heavy infantry and cavalry.

Ended up with the loss of just about all the infantry and 600 of the cavalry dead in exchange for all of the Greeks.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I have one heroic General, Sextus Dexius Proceus, now Sextus Dexius Africanus (playing EB). He conquered the city of Carthage and later all of Carthaginian Africa. Then he sailed to the Beleares, killed four Carthaginian family members, including the faction leader and heir, and so earned the title of Africanus. This reduced the Carthaginians to two provinces in southern Spain. So, he sailed there and conquered one of them. After doing that, he caught out a Carthaginian family member on his own fleeing accross the campaign map. Sextus's troops couldn't reach him in the turn due to being infantry, so Sextus fought the Carthaginian general with his own bodyguard. It was one unit of bodyguards against another, and Sextus wins. Sextus returns to his main army, and goes to conquer a nearby Iberian settlement. However, an Iberian diplomat bribes the only Roman spanish mainland town, leaving Sextus and his army stranded. He has one full stack army, and is surrounded by three full stack Iberian armies. He goes to some high ground, and is attacked by two of the Iberian armies. On the battlefield, the Velites do enough to hold off one of the Iberian armeis while the Hastati/Principes fight the other. With Sextus's command they win, and then go and rout the other army. By the end of this battle, Sextus is victorious, but reduced to a half-stack army. So, he is attacked by a full stack Iberian army. The Romans form a square like formation shielded by some farm houses. Hastati and Principes form a square protecting the Velites and slingers. Surely enough, ten percent of the Iberians die before they make a kill themselves. However, the Iberians have a far superior army, with many Scutarii. As the battle goes their way, Sextus charges at their General, managing to rout him, and taking a few swings at him himself! However, the main Roman army is simply too weak, and routs. Sextus is the last man to flee the field. Sextus regroups at the Baleares, and return to Spain with a new full stack army. So far, he has defeated a full stack Iberian army at a river crossing, taking only 5% casualties and killing 100% of enemies.

He's now 45, hopefully he'll be able to wipe out the Carthaginians in his lifetime.

EDIT: Also, a lowly Captain with a half stack army wiped out an entire army of Pantodapoi, and took only two casualites. And it was a mixed army with only a couple of Triarii, some Hastati/Principes, several Velites/Accensi