Most memorable moment in m2tw

[Labareda]

Sailing to Cairo (from Rome) with my French General and a seige army.

Blasting down the walls, wading through the Egyptian defenders with the aim to the city with minimal losses. Retreating in order to minimise casualties. Sacking Cairo

General Dies of the pox !

My fiancé decides to take an interest in my game and sits on my knee. It is my ardent wish to display valour and strategic genius before the watchful gaze of my beloved.

The Mongol's arrive with a stack full of Kahn's guard and as I am deploying my troops along the broken walls of Cairo I realise the flaw in my plan. The walls are holier than his hatness.



Despite gritty defence from my Scott's guard, glorious charges of Chivalric Knights and the yelled of enthusiasm of my fiancé, I am totally overwhelmed by the Mongols and Cairo falls once more.

[Vlad_Impaler]

The ignominious death of my greatest general, Harry the Terrible. In his middle years he built up a reputation for savagery by purging the Iberian peninsula of dastardly Spaniards and putting all the Moors to the sword and torch. He took pleasure in hunting down fleeing peasants, and often let the archers get in some extra practice that way. Flaming ammo, of course.

After earning his full complement of Dread he took on two Crusades. Hoping to purify his soul, he instead found lots of new victims to mangle, enslave, etc. In spite of winning both Crusades, he still had 8 Dread when he earned the Warlord of Terror title. A small grin crept across my face. Harry, the improbably named Warlord of Terror was over sixty and on the far eastern edge of the map. Some leftover Turks from a recent conquest were nearby, 213 of them to be exact. Harry and his remaining 23 guards took them on. A night battle, raining or course, with flaming arrows falling all about and a mixed bag of rabble and elites coming uphill through the dense woods. Harry ignored the arrows and charged the spears. They took one look at his towering rage and fled before his fury. All of them ran on contact, some just before. A catapult crew scattered at the receiving end of a decent charge. The archers were no trouble and died quickly, the others were mopped up in detail. Checking the map for any stragglers, I noticed a little red arrow a ways behind me. I direct the Warlord of Terror in his unstoppable might to return and wipe them out.

With a fizzling, hissing *splat*, Harry was no more. The remaining four men of the catapult crew had returned and got off a very lucky shot against my dozen or so remaining horsemen charging toward them.

Rest in peace, Harry , Warlord of Terror. If the digital St. Peter gives you guff, drag him through hell naked behind a chariot.

[The historian]

Had some too bad you can;t view the battle replay there are some great one's i'd save.

[Marshal Murat]

I was the English, and I had just defeated the French. Then
WHAM

A Portuguese army lands in Ireland and besieges Dublin.
I'm naturally very angry, so I muster my Feudal Knights, Longbowmen (Levy, Armored, and King!!) and some billmen.

It was the best battlefield, wide open plain, storm clouds rolling over.
My longbowmen rush to the flanks of the Portuguese, line up in front of the billmen, and rain arrows onto the Portuguese. The archers decimate the sitting Portuguese soldiers, and I eliminate the entire crossbow screen. Then the knights charge, my billmen follow close behind, and mass slaughter follows.

[DeathBUA]

Holding Antioch as the Venetians and it getting sieged by the Mongols, I remember I had about 1500 defenders in the city, which had ballista towers but not cannon towers yet...The defenders were a mix of venetian archers, venetian heavy infantry, some crusader knights and crusader sergeants and a 8 star general.

They attempted to take the town with 3 full stacks, including the Khan, and his heir to the throne and another 8 star general. Night battle of course.

They had no artillery but instead charged with multiple rams. I destroyed 2 before the 3rd made it to the gate. By this point my computer was straining to keep decent frames as all 3 Mongol armies were waiting to charge in once the gate was down. By some stroke of luck my ballista tower shot and killed the Khan just as the gate was destroyed by the ram. They charged into the breech, HA's Khan's Guard, infantry, everything. The slaughter was tremendous! My computer literally was running maybe 5 frames a second for about half an hour as my venetians put up a heroic defense and my archers continued to rain arrows upon them, until running out of ammo I charged them into the fray.

Just when I thought all was lost slowly at first than faster and faster white flags of rout popped up on the mongol units. I charged in with my general and that broke their back, they fled I ran them down killing and capturing hundreds. The final toll left me with about 500 men left and yet I had killed 4,900 Mongols!!!!

After that I rushed in reinforcements from Acre yet they didnt attack me again for almost 10 turns. By then I was rebuilt AND had cannon towers.

[Milovan]

When I brought a full stack of Dvor Cavalry and Cossack Musketeers +mercs and annihilated three full stacks of Timurids incl Elephants! But then four more came and the Timurid saga extended for another 50 years...

[imnothere]

Sailing to Cairo (from Rome) with my French General and a seige army.
...

My fiancé decides to take an interest in my game and sits on my knee. It is my ardent wish to display valour and strategic genius before the watchful gaze of my beloved.

The Mongol's arrive with a stack full of Kahn's guard and as I am deploying my troops along the broken walls of Cairo I realise the flaw in my plan. The walls are holier than his hatness.



Despite gritty defence from my Scott's guard, glorious charges of Chivalric Knights and the yelled of enthusiasm of my fiancé, I am totally overwhelmed by the Mongols and Cairo falls once more.

man, this would be embarassing. while my generals have the habit of impaling themselves on the nearest peasant's pitchfork, at least i can in silence and reload.

just tell her that there was a BIG BUG (not the insect variety) in the game and you need to download the patch for it. coz blah-blah-blah and blah-blah-blah. then get her drunk, and then take her out or anything else that would make her forget.

otherwise, just say that you need to spend more time with her anyway

[ainamacil]

First campaign in M2TW here, but there already so many memorable moments.

The first is really a series. I managed to get the panicked Moors to give me Granada as part of a peace deal to get me off their backs. It was a good idea for them to do so- I was just miles from Marrakesh with a very unhappy 7-Star King Henry the Merciless. Well, I never ended up making a push into Africa, and wars with the ever-persistent and backstabbing Milan, HRE, and Denmark (plus the recently-arrived Hungarians- lousy dogs!), combined with my alliance with Spain, kept me from connecting the Iberian dots, so to speak. Portugal is still holding on, and indeed, holds most of Iberia. They routinely assault me in Granada. With militia, and sometimes, if they're feeling particularly-uppity, a ram or two. My 6 archer militia, 2 billmen, and general's bodyguard have repelled at least five assaults now, and virtually without effort. They're keen on just letting the Portuguese saunter on up under heavy arrow fire and get cut to pieces, time after time. I'm inclined to endorse that strategy, frankly.

Then, of course, is the time I cornered the Milanese heir in a slightly-wooded field with 4 ribaults and some longbowmen. It was a little bit like the end of the last battle in The Last Samurai. I watched his unit cut to pieces, laughing the whole time. He deserved it.

And finally, perhaps my favorite. King Henry The Merciless (now back in London) joins a crusade, sails all the way to Jerusalem and takes the city in a crushing victory, for which he earns the sobriquet "King Henry the Crusader" and "big ups" from the Pope. Said Pope immediately dies, and being unable to vote for the new one, King Henry loses much esteem, and moreover, within a few turns, goes from being King Henry the Crusader and sitting pretty in the world to King Henry the Liar and languishing in a Jerusalem castle for the rest of his life. Oh, and his son turned out to be a dip. Poor Henry.

[Fußball]

One of the only, if not the only one, battles where I was forced to withdraw my forces. All of my men but a few near depleted units withdraw. My eight command general gets sniped by a flaming trebuchet shot.

Tschüß!
Erich

[icek]

as for now it will be my landing in Sicily right into hiden enemy king' army. thank you god for english palisades also siege of paris on 1.1

[Gorghor]

My best moment in the game was in my last long campaign playing the English. I had conquered most of modern day France, was allied to Spain and was mostly occupied with setting up camp in the holy lands. The only true annoyance was Milan, whose empire spanned up to the southeast of France, southern Germany and Switzerland. They were constantly sending fulls stacks on my French cities, besieging up to 4 cities in one single turn. Obviously this made it somewhat hard to develop my economy in those areas, and the best of my army was already engaged in the far east. Each time I tried to build up an army to go slaughter those ugly Milanese swines in their homelands, it was ambushed by danes or redirected back to my lands in order to save some attacked city.

After years of this terror, I accidently noticed I had a 34 year old snobby princess who'd been sitting in Toulouse for 18 years (would be nice if the game told you when a princess has her "coming of age"). She had no hearts (actually if the game permitted she would have been in the minus) but proved to be of great strategic importance!

I sent her out to Milan, where General Antonio The Honourable was governing. I though, "bah, why not.." although her chances in success were about 11%. And what do you know, I had a five star general in the middle of my most hated enemy's land. I immediatly recruited the 2 pavise crossbowmen and 1 band of spearmen available there. Milan sent a half stack full of spearmen and various cavalry to me. Heroic victory... and so on... I conquered Milan, Venice and a couple other of tows in the area. By that time the Milanese were sending their troops back home to try and stop the carnage, but it was already too late. A few turns later and Milan was no more.

Now THAT is what I call memorable! ;)

Another enjoyable part was, later in that same game, when the Timurids invaded the Holy Lands and I decimated most of their 8-9 star generals with a couple assassins.

[Empirate]

The first time I had to face the Mongols and Timurids was in my Hungarian M/VH campaign (this was 1.1). I had joined a crusade to Antioch because I could, and actually ended up taking it after fighting three original Mongol armies with my crusaders and an allied Sicilian crusader army (great battle, low framerate though...).
From Antioch, I defended myself against the Mongols for a while and took Acre and Jerusalem through more crusading. The Mongols were still running strong when all of a sudden the Timurids showed up. We ended up in a nice and bloody three-way war of attrition. The Mongols were the first to go, and I brought my best generals and armies to the Near East. I didn't quite dare lay hand on the Timurid main force, but after defending Acre and Antioch in numerous sieges, I saw an opening and decided to attack a lone stack. I had pulled together the very best troops I had anywhere in the area, and the only good general remaining to me. I wanted to use these to surgically remove straggling Tim stacks. Somehow my spies must have missed the two OTHER Tim stacks that showed up as reinforcements...
This, however, was also the first time I ended up defeating the Tims in the open field! I was lucky in that I had the high ground, and I immediately pounded the first Tim army with lots of PavXBows. They charged, and their charge quickly broke on my walls of Pavese Spearmen countercharging from on high. I pulled back and awaited the rest of the massive Tim forces. It was a long, drawn-out battle, I had to watch all the approaches to my hill fortress constantly, and was charged time and again, though never on a massive scale. Instead, the AI looked to cut off single units and wipe them out. All the while, my PavXBows took a heavy toll on the Tim mounted and foot archers, but received quite a beating in return. Luckily, only one unit of elephants was in all the three Tim stacks, and these were driven off with lots of XBow bolts. Still, things began to look grim. My general had to charge in once, twice, a third time, then I wasn't able to withdraw him anymore: I needed his men fighting the Tim infantry and a few remaining heavy cavalry. My PavXBows had long stopped firing, some because of lack of ammo, some because they were engaged in melee. I used them as shock-absorbers and countercharged with my few precious heavy melee infantry. My Royal Banderium underperformed (again...) and was mostly routed in battle with Tim heavy infantry. My Hungarian Nobles did quite well, but had suffered very heavy losses. Units began routing, even though I had taken out about 70% of the Tim troops. Even my general routed once, taking almost all my forces with him, but the enemy were too tired to pursue uphill and chose to start shooting a little more. I was able to reform most of my remaining, depleted forces, only about 250 men all in all (huge unit size...). The Tims still had approximately 600 men, though tired and battered.
Then, suddenly, I get the message saying that my reinforcements are entering the battle! I've never been more relieved. The first reinforcement unit to arrive was their general, who, while still green, had almost 30 fresh bodyguards. These alone were enough to engage and rout the last remaining Tim cavalry. After that, my two generals double-teamed each and every Tim unit in turn, routing all of them. Heroic victory, about 4,500 Tim dead, along with close to 1,000 of my own. After this I knew the Timurids can be beat in the open field!