I posted the thread the other day about how many times I have stupidly hit the end turn button when I was intending to hit the financial details button.

Tonight I think I topped that in another senior moment. I am playing Spain and was on my way to take Algeria, Unfortunately there was a rebel army in the way that I was going to have to fight because they were blocking a narrow corridor between a river and the Med.

I was just a bit out numbered, but I had a strong nicely balanced little army, so I go for the battle. Ive got 4 archer units, 3 dismounted knights, 2 feudal mounted knights, my general's body guard unit and two catapult units.

By putting my archers in front, footknights next and cav knight to the rear, my army looked like a perfect symmetrical letter "H" laying on its side, and since my archer and mounted knight units extended the same distance past the each end of my footknights, I put my two catapult units in each of the pockets of the sideways "H"

I group my boys and move them around for the best spot, since I pretty sure the enemy will attack immediately. Then I use the < > keys to get just the right facing. I do this forever because I am too damn picky, but finally I'm satisfied and hit the start battle button.

I was right about the rebels--they appeared immediately in missile range and were heading straight for me on the run. As they rushed towards me, I wondered why my archers were not letting loose a flight of missiles, and then to my horror suddenly realized that unless my knights could order their horses to shoot arrows out of their butts not a shot was ever going to be fired.

I had faced my army 180% in the wrong direction.

Since there was no way to recover or make it right, and it was going to be a real disaster, I exited out and took the loss.

Fortunately the computer only gigged me about 80 men, so it wasn't too bad, but boy did I feel foolish.

Maybe I should just give up PC gaming and get back into woodworking again--Naaah!-- I probably just cut a couple of fingers off and not the virtual kind either--