Most memorable moment in m2tw

[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.