How do I stack up against other players... (Whats your most difficult vs Cpu victory)

[SSJVegetaTrunks]

This is a battle I just played an hour ago. I was seiging Athens when suddenly another stack came to reinforce them. I tried to withdraw, but ended up just on the other side of Athens and they attacked again. I was forced to fight.

[antisocialmunky]

I was playing the Romans on XGM and defeated 7 stacks worth of Carthaginians that endlessly besieged Masilla with six units of Hastati and two units of velites. The first siege was one of the most extraordinary things I had ever seen. This was because they only had one unit of elephants. They sieged me, they bashed one hole in my wall and the elephants got in and kicked my Hastati around. They took a long while to run amok but this was actually good thing. They fought long enough that most of the Carthiginian were able to run to and start entering the breach. As you can probably predict, at this point the elephants decided to go into beserk mode and killed about 700 of their levy phalangites in their rampage. That was just the first one. Carthaginian elephants became my best friends in those long siege battles.

Good ole Quintus Scipio became Quintus Africanus and then Quintus Magnus and then Quintus the Brave and then Quintus the Infantry Man. I bet he had many a happy dream of elephants running comically around in the background.

Scipio's elite Hastati must have killed atleast eight family members, two faction heirs, and atleast one faction leader but they just landed several stacks each turn... I guess they had it coming. I have to give them credit for perseverance.

Eventually the heroes of Massilla were so depleted I had to abort my invasion of Greece and use Decius Mus to relieve Scipio.

Decius Mus had an interesting story too. All you guys who haven't played Romans in XGM probably don't know how annoying it is to start a game and be at war against a faction with a 7 star general general and a full stack of Phalangites with elephants and good cavalry hanging around the boot of Italy. But alas XGM is fun like that. I had Scipio run around destroying the rebel Roman faction - who were allies of the Carthaginians and thus the whole Massilla saga - while Decius Mus assembled the grand army of the Republic to try and defend Cannae if Pyhrrus decided to besiege it. However, in a strange twist, the Greek Cities in a completely random fashion invaded Italy. Decius Mus defended Cannae from four stacks led by each one of the starting Greek family members except those of Perganum and Rhodes. This built him up to a 8 star uber general in about three turns. After the Greeks were bled white, Pyhrrus decided to redeem Greek honor by invading Cannae. Decius Mus managed to defeat him in an open battle... which was freaking awesome considering that this was my 4th try at this battle. Most of his army routed but Pyhrrus and about a hundred survivors fled to Taranteum and were finished off by Decius.

Mus became Decius Graecus and then Decius the Mighty. Somehow his bodyguard became gold chevron which makes him ridiculously good in circling around the army and beating the enemy general to death with his 1337 Jediness.

Decius the Mighty and Quintus the Infantryman... I will be so sad when they die of old age.

My other major general was Vibilius Gallicus but he died in an unfortunate drunken charge into the rear of a unit of Spear Warbanders. He had the funniest speeches and will be eternally missed by the local bartenders.

[General-Winter]

I've only been playing RTW for a little more than a month, so I am sure I don't have anything spectacular, but my greatest lopsided victory was against the last Brittanian settlement on the mainland... can't remember the name of it. Anyway, Quintus "The Brave" led an army of about 800 pre-marian legionnaires, mostly Hastati, to beseige the settlement, when the Brits sallied and brought up a full stack from behind me. I crushed the sallyers early in the battle and swung around to face the main army. I consider it the perfect example of 'what NOT to do as a barbarian': huge screaming foaming-at-the-mouth tidal wave which bent the Roman line but did not crack it. They fled in about a minute after first contact, one-and-a-half at the most.

Again, I can't remember the exact statistics, but the casualties were something like a hundred Romans to a thousand Britons. They never did recover from that. Brittainia was invaded three years after the battle, and all resistence pacified in another five. Just curious, has any barbarian player here beaten a player-controlled roman army? I'd imagine that you would either need a huge numerical advantage or a fair amount of cavalry, or both.

[HumphreysCraig00]

I have, berserkers are key when your the germans, let them do the work and ward off enemy cavalry/skirmishers with your cavalry.

(Numerical inferiority for me here, but terrible imbalancing issue that let me win)

As the Britons I used headhurlers to destroy the roman front and then charged most of the rest of the army using a few units to prevent flanking.

(No numerical difference prettymuch but again a too strong unit paved the way)

I dont play as gauls so I dont know about them

[dacdac]

Personal Best. RTW with BI expansion. Playing as the Goths and had the 9 stacks of Huns all invade me at once. Got the best spearmen and archers i had, and cut them off at a bridge to the north. I clogged up the bridge with spears, and their all calvary army ran straight into them. Not so much a display of my ingenuity but the AI stupidity.
Final Count
Goths:200 spearmen dead, most from enemy horse archer fire.
100 archers dead from enemy HA's as well.
Huns:1600 heavy calvary dead.
1000 HA dead when they charged after running out of ammo.

HEROIC VICTORY!!

[Severous]

Held the city.

Lost a 1/3rd of my force. The red Romans lost 2/3rds of theirs.

Killed the remainder a turn later.

(Barbarian Invasion on vh/vh)

[GeneralHankerchief]

This was fun:



I defended a city in Thrace from an all-out Brutii assault. They attacked me from all sides, with zillions of siege equipment (walls were regular stone).

After this plus another repulse (much easier) a turn later, Brutii power was finally broken in Thrace after about 30 years of fighting.