Most memorable moment in m2tw

[Scotsmanforlife]

I'm having a lot of fun playing this game and would just like to hear from
others the best moments they've had playing. Even though i lost the most fun i've had was playing the Scots so far. I tried going the peaceful route with the english but it backfired on me.

[pevergreen]

I havent had that many compared to RTW but my final defences are so much fun. Its like Braveheart or LOTR. 2 bodyguard and general defending large city (not starting force, that was all thats left) vs over 600. The General walks around the entire city, waving it goodbye, arrows thumping around him. He makes his way to the middle, and charges headlong into over 400 spears and 100 archers. *sniff*

[KARTLOS]

i recently had an epic battle outside of jerusalem. I fought 3 sizable egyptian armies with one crusade stack of my own, my kings crusade army ( which I let the ai control) + a hungarian crusading stack.

my army was mainly made up of crusader nights and 4 mercenary horse archers (turkopoles?) and I moved them swiftly around the map, I destroyed the first egyptian force on my own, the largest egyptian force engaged the hungarian army and I charged them in the back and then finally all three allied armies ganged up on the final egyptian force and uterly destroyed it. Lots of glorious charges by knights! after that jerusalem was free for the taking.

This was the first occasion where crusading has actually been a challenge. i took my time getting there as i got embroiled fighting the backstabbing byzantines and turks on my way to target. i noticed poish, milanese and hungarian forces go past me and i thought i had messed up and missed out on the crusade target. it turned out the egyptians had several large stacks right next to jerusalem and they saw off a couple of crusading forces. i was playing a edited version of a royal arms mod which has extra provinces on the standard sized map + shaba wangy diplomacy mod + some unit modifications of my own - and i think there must have been something in there that made the egyptains richer and able to defend themelves properly. They still have damascus and gaza, which are defended by full stacks which never usually happens - deffinately more of a challenge + more fun.

in the same camapign i took the turkish city of aleppo on my way to jerusalem and left it guarded by 3 crusader seargents, one dismounted crusader knight and one 12men unit of high experience mailed knights. I successfully repelled a 3/4 stack turkish army which included two catupualts. that was deffinately my most fun seige defence as the odds werer so bad. only the knights and 50 seargents survived.

[chunkynut]

The last stands are certainly the best on the whole but I've had more enjoyable field battles as well.

The mongols give a great challange and I decided that of the three stacks near my city I would attack the middle one (all three were close enough on the map to re-enforce the each other) .... bad move. I had an uphill run to the 'middle' army and there was an army behind to the left and behind to the right. My first thoughts were 'f**k', my second thoughts were get up the hill take out the 'middle' army and turn and face off the others ... massive attrition on all sides their archers took a major slice out of me and my knights gouged at them but in the end their numbers won through. Very difficult but enjoyable.

Most of the best city seiges I've played have been against the mongols too.

[Kraxis]

Most memorable?

Game crashing in battles, just when I have finished my modding of the game (no it isn't the mod as it doe this in vanilla as well).

[Stig]

Best moment ... when I won an MP battle where I was on the losing end the entire battle really, untill I charged my remaining cav into his general and won.
w00t

[Shahed]

I guess the most memorable moments must be those when the sexy Chinese delivery chick arrives with the DUCK (!) in Orange Sauce.

[King Azzole]

Most memorable moment... yes well it would have to be the first battle loss I have had (non-intentional) since STW.

I was playing as spain and rushed an equal amount of units to Valencias units in the hope of using my Kings command stars and good tactics to overcome even odds. Well... it didnt work out quite as planned. I broke down the gates and charged in. Soon my king was engaged with Jinetes and El Cid himself, while my spearmen were hit from behind by the defenders coming down from the walls. After killing many Jinetes and Royal Knights I just could not kill El Cid. Sensing my Kings imminant death and seeing my spearmen were being whittled down to nothing I withdrew my king from the battle. He and only ONE other Royal Knight survived. El Cid rode down the few spearmen that tried to flee and executed them.

I returned a few years later with a new army, and finally El Cid was defeated. But it was truly memorable. I even remember sitting in front of my monitor and giving out a chuckle because I was beat fair and square.

[Hashashiyyin]

I guess the most memorable moments must be those when the sexy Chinese delivery chick arrives with the DUCK (!) in Orange Sauce.

That sounds like a memorable moment I'd recreate a few times a day and just get fat on chinese food! Honestly, if you don't get chinese delivery tonight I'd be disappointed in you!


as far as in game goes, my most memorable moment was with the french knight, Henri the honest, who apparently though the turks were just some pagan heathens.

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[GreatWarrior]

For me it was a battle between one single general unit that I was trying to move from one city to another. And well some rebels show up about 600 of them, the rebel army was something like 1 unit of archer cavalry, the rest were town militia and spear militia I think.

Halfway through moving my general I get attacked, so I withdrawn and I get cornered in the mountins, so I had to fight. I placed my bodyguard high in the mountins.

First the cavalry archers attack and I charge, killing some of them then they retreat as do I. Then they try another wave and I charge again killing more then half of their unit they retreat. By that time the rest of the army comes into the mountins. I prepare for the charge. I charge them killing a lot of them. It was a good charge coming down from the mountins. I killed a lot but then all their units catch up so I retreat back into the higher mountins. Then comes the last charge. Another great charge killing a lot of the rebels. Well after killing maybe 150 or 200 of them they get scared and run away. I managed to kill most of them when they were running away. So the final outcome was 500 of tem dead and only like 3 or 4 of my generals bodyguard dead.


Another memorable moment was siegieng rebel castle. My army wasn't that great but had a spy open the gates. Charged the castle. Battle was even, by the end the rebels had 2 mailed knights left and a few spearmen against like 20 town militia that I had and some archers and my guys got scared and ran away. I shouldn't have withdrew my general earlier who had 4 guys left. So i lost.

[Morindin]

I started a new campaign using Lusted's mod as the Byzantines on M/VH.

On turn 2, I took the great Emperor Alexius, with 8 command stars, and soon captured the fortress of Sofia. With the Hungarians bearing down quickly I decided to storm the castle, so I could move on to more conquests.

In Vanilla, after you take the province you can govern it with little worry. In Lusted's mod, religious unrest is increased. Hence, after the mighty Emperor took the province, despite his influence, it rioted due to being a heavy catholic nation. Nothing could be done about the situation until next turn.

Next turn comes around, reinforcements are en-route to put the happiness in the green, but low and behold, mighty Emperor Alexius, whom my hopes of western expansion rested on, died in the riots.

I sat there stunned for a little while...

My 8 star night fighting faction leader killed by rioting pesants on turn 5. Maybe a tile hit him on the head? ;)

[Scotsmanforlife]

Well last night i had a great fight against the poles. I had just taken one of their cities a few turns before and i guess they didn't appreicate it. Not sure why? So they attacked me witha full stack, mostly militia spearmen with some peasants and a few units of heavy cavalry. i thought it would be an easy fight since i had 4 general units, 4 Knights Templar units, and like 6 sergeant Spearman units. I guess i underestimated them a tad bit. I placed too much faith
in the templar units, but they seemed(to me) to get cut down pretty easily.
They broke through my walls and launched a full scale attack. I had positioned all my spearmen and peasants by the entrance until they took down the walls, then pulled them back to the town's center. While i had my generals on the right side of the city and the Templars on the left. What i like to do is bring all my mounted troops out of the gates on the sides of the city and bring them around so that i have the enemy flanked. So while they are moving into the city to get at my foot troops, my mounted ones are coming at them from behind. Usually works pretty well, not this time. I lost almost all 4 of my templars units, and most of my foot troops. Amazingly i managed to keep all my generals alive. I ended winning the fight but just barely. I had a lot of fun with this fight.

[Rilder]

I have a couple, 1 was in my spain campaign in Antioch, the Turmuids had invaded, and bore down on the city, first seige was fought back and destroyed, next stack, kill off, third stack they fought valiently but with there dwindling numbers were unable to protect the "holy land", but had killed over 2 stacks and 2 turmid kings... not bad for no general :D

The other one was when I retook Venice from the Milanese(sp?) in my erm Venice campaign, it wasnt much a fight but watching those men run towards there formal capitals broken gates was just memorablel, of course I had every single Milaneese slaugtered

[Yun Dog]

Playing as the french a stack of Danish bezerkers and mounted cleric melted my 3 unit deep spear wall and slaughtered every man woman and child in the city of Antwerp

again as the french having landed outside Antioch on Crusade - to be greeted by the mongol horde

it was late in the afternoon - the sun was setting blood red
in the distance
their many banners rippled in the wind
we were mesmerised by their dance of death
our men fell where they stood in neat little squares in formation
having cut us down to half our size - the dance over - they vanished into the desert sands

[Skott]

First time I saw catapults hitting the enemy. Even better was the first time I saw the mortar type cannons (bombards?) hit enemy troops and watched the men fly up in the air when a shell exploded on them. I laughed like a little kid when I saw that. The little in-game movies of the spies are another. Those are a few of early memories for me.

[Daveybaby]

For me it ws during my first campaign as the english. After conquering bordeaux i moved a couple of generals out of the castle to build watchtowers on my newly expanded borders. As one lone general built his watchtower it revealed a nearby half full stack of french troops. And then i noticed that the general was in fact my king and he had used up all of his movement points. Oh dear.

So at the end of the turn the french stack attacks. I cannot retreat, so i think "i may as well try to take as many as possible with me" and prepare to fight. Hilly terrain, me: 1 king with about 40 bodyguard knights. Enemy: 2 units dismounted feudal knights, 2 peasants, 1 armoured sergeants, 1 crossbow, 1 ballista.

Proceeded to lead the enemy army on a merry chase around the hills in an effort to tire them out and spread them out a bit. Managed to get the crossbows isolated and attacked them, but lost quite a few knights to crossbow fire in the progress and got a bit bogged down fighting, since i didnt want to withdraw, reform and charge as this would expose me to further fire. Finally routed the crossbows, which was a relief as they had whittled my forces down to about 30 knights, not good at this early stage of proceedings.

At this point the ballista was starting to really annoy me, taking out the odd knight here and there, so i managed to get around behind the rest of their forces and take most of them out. Unfortunately, in my haste i neglected to notice a unit of peasants nearby who managed catch up to attack me from behind while i was taking out the ballista crew. Eventually i managed to rout the peasants, but at the cost of now being down to about 20 knights. Also there were still 4 or 5 ballista crew left who, annoyingly, did not rout, and would proceed to take the odd pot shot at me for the rest of the battle.

The rest of the battle was a matter of getting uphill from the enemy units, forming up, waiting for the enemy to get to the right distance, and charge. Over and over again. It was during this battle that i mastered the art of the perfect charge. Also, because i was letting my enemy come to me, i was able to rest my knights while the enemy were progressively becoming more and more exhausted. Even so, it was a battle of attrition, and i was losing 1 or 2 knights for each charge even though i was killing many more each time.

Eventually though I routed the final unit of DFKs, having just 5 of my bodyguard remaining. Final toll was about 400 enemy to 35 knights. My king got quite a few good traits and experience points after that.

[PureFodder]

After smashing the Scots, plundering the Portugeese, destroying the Danes and foiling the French my all powerful English armies saw a Milanese army for the first time.

"Look Sire, they come with nothing but crossbowmen from Genoa with a silly shield on their backs!" "This will be a prime opportunity to give our newly recruited army of dismounted English knights a chance to wet their blades!"

20 minutes, a mountain of corpses and one embarrasing defeat later I decided that my swordsmen/longbow armies were probably a better option.

[Dark_Magician]

I'm having a lot of fun playing this game and would just like to hear from
others the best moments they've had playing.

I was most pleasantly surprised when I started as the Egiptians on VH/VH and looking at initial set up of the kingdom found out that the imam I was given in the beginning already had Jihad capability. Though available Jihad units were not overly impressive, they were cheap and thanks to this uber unit I could counter-Jihad the first Crusade against Jerusalem and, in second Jihad - early in the game as well - was able to briefly take Constantinople sailing away with astounding 37 000 plunder gold.

[John Johnston]

Watching as my Imperial cannons (bombards, if I remember right) lined up behind the breach made in their wooden fort by a legion of Timurids. Two cannons lined up behind the breach, unfortunately, they were at a slight angle, rather than side-by-side, which meant that the chap loading the front cannon was in direct line-of-fire for the back cannon.

Time after time a loader would step forward to the front cannon and load it... just in time to get blown away by the back cannon firing... until they were nearly all gone, leaving a pile of corpses by the side of the cannon.

Now that's dedication.

The battle was eventually won, after great slaughter in the streets.

[Nutranurse]

Most memorable....

Well when I modded swords out of Pikemen and went itno my campaign. A few turns in I am fighting the Scotts (I am Portugal, after taking out Spain and the Moors I decided "Hey lets go kill some Brits and Scots ). I had forgot that I had modded the Pikemen and I sent a ton of cavalry over there...In one battle my royal family was cut in half...

[Whacker]

Definitely most memorable moment for me was finding the damn "units won't chase down and kill routing enemies" bug in in v1.0 playing as England. If it weren't for that (#@$)#@#*&$ bug I would have torn Scotland to shreds in that siege battle. Tried it at least 2 more times, same effect. That left a VERY bad taste in my mouth... that and the idiotic unit cohesion are almost singlehandedly what caused me to shelve the game until the 1.1 patch. Thankfully both seem to be fixed for the most part.

[Scotsmanforlife]

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[General Zhukov]

Most memorable battle so far:

I had taken the Citadel of Steffan form the Danes, and they were moving up an army from the south to retake it. One of my other armies met them near the river that flows SW of Steffan, while two units of knights inside Steffan rode out to reinforce me.

On the battle map, the river seperated my Spanish troops and the Danes, with only a small, shallow bed for a crossing. The Danes, predictably, lined up on the other side of the river, and, with their large regiments of crossbowmen, waited for my army to cross. It was Utah Beach. I tested this by sending across a unit of Alumghavars, and they were shot dead before getting close (you cannot maneuver them inside the riverbed).

What about those knights from Steffan? They appeared on the other side of the map from me, hidden in the trees far behind the Danes. The knights crept up, and crept close, until their presence was detected as they approached the enemy rear! Though I lost the opportunity to sodomize them, the Danes still split their forces to meet the new threat.

Which was of course all the opening I needed to dash my army across the river and mop them up.

I've got another one where three Egyptian armies pinched my crusader stack outside Jerusalem. But, it seems everbody has fought that battle so why bother?

[General Zhukov]

Think I meant Omaha Beach, ah well.

[Melanie T.]

User-Defined mission. Scottish V English (I always play Scotland...I'm from Ullapool).

Set it all up that I would seige, with the AI defending. Towers, catapults, ladders, the works...twice over.

So I'm all ready for a long and drawn out battle. Fresh cup of coffee at my side, and my Knightly kitty asleep at my feet.

First barrage is the rather childish act of throwing half a cow at the City Hall (or whatever it's called). Barely did anything. Before I remembered to stop the action, they started hurling balls of fire.

The first barrage killed the General, sitting on his horse at the Town Square.

The rest was just too easy. After winning the battle, I reset it and played again. Finally lost, since I forgot to take out a few key defenses before sending in my other seige equipment.

I could imagine the Generals speech:

"Men, I can promise you nothing but---what's that?"

~Mel

[RtkBedivere]

I was playing a bridge battle in my portugese campain and had about a 1/3 stack attacked by two 3/4 stacks.

Anyway im going into this thinking there is no way im gonna manage to beat these odds even though i have the bridge they are crossing (i had some xbows but no arch for fire arrows, i wish i had though ) Anyway about 25 minutes later the AI was down to about 2 full units of catapults, a bombard and 3 20 men units of pavise crossbows that i would rout and then they would regroup. All i had left was a single man. My lonly general left on the field.

He was horirble exhused but so was everything else on the feild after charging and chasing all their xbows off the feild i hid my general in some woods and triple speeded so that he would get bakc to fresh. When he was ready i started my charge about 15 seconds from contact with the first of the wavering catapults he got hit with a fire shot and died.

Theres still a hole in the drywall next to my desk

[Scotsmanforlife]

[yesdachi]

I just got excommunicated for the first time.

You never forget your first.

[Quillan]

Back in my Spanish campaign, I took Jerusalem in a crusade. I already had Antioch and Acre when the crusade was called, so I could get there quickly. When a spy showed that the city was minimally defended (1 general and 1 arab cavalry) I didn't bother with quality, only quantity. I went with a general, a bunch of turkomans, a couple of spanish units (I forget exactly what) and the rest was pilgrims and religious fanatics, with 2 units of unhorsed knights for muscle. I let the pilgrims do most of the dying, and captured the city. I moved the general and the turkomans out and left the remainder there to garrison the city, minimally reinforcing the garrison with some peasant archers and pavise crossbowmen brought in from Acre, and moved on.

Years later, still at war with Egypt, they show up with a full stack army to assault the city, and all I have is crap troops (2 religious fanatics, 5 pilgrims, 2 unhorsed knights, 3 pavise crossbowmen, 2 peasant archers, and the remaining 6 units spear militia). They have 2 generals, 5 units of tabardariyya, a unit of mamluk archers, 3 trebuchets, 2 catapults, and 7 units of saracen militia, and I have to defend the city. I decided not to try and defend the walls, as those are going to be crushed by all that artillery. I left the missile troops on the walls where they killed one general, then fell back to the square when they ran out of ammo. I used the rest to block the streets, pilgrims first, and left the unhorsed knights in side streets to hit flanks. In the end, I suffered horrendous casualties, but managed to kill their entire army and won the fight.

[Kraggenmor]

I've had a number of memorable battles but the one instance that I know is going to remain in my mind forever is this:

Playing as Spain I was laying a seige, I honestly forget at what town, it wasn't the where that matters.

The siege was meant to be a relatively inconsequential thing in the scheme of things. Another siege that just needs to happen. The defending force was small and I had actually planned to just wait them out while dealing with things elsewhere.

The defenders decided to sally forth and the ensuing fight was going predictably. They march, we march. They charge, we charge One by one the outnumbered abd outclassed foes beging routing back to the safety of their walls.

The last unit actively engaged with my troops is their general when I get the "The enemy general disgraces himself and flees the field while his men fight on."

"Actually it's his men that abandoned him" I respond. I figure some of the routed troops must have recovered while inside the walls.

I zoom in on the view I have of the troops chasing the General as he flees back to the town when it happens....

Just as he is drawing near, the gates slam shut and his horses slam headlong into the closed gates!

I actually had to pause the game stop playing while laughing that one off.

Guess he wasn't too popular with the troops, eh?

Poor fella.