Dumb/Embarrassing Move

[Northnovas]

I haven't seen anything like this in the Citadel for a while. Just wondering that one lapse of judgement that still lingers in your campaign play. You know the army left sitting off shore with a fleet, a poorly defended settlement.
Mine was the English hold of Frankfurt and a very large Polish Army but poorly led closing in for the kill.
My 6 star General with his large force near Hamburg were coming to relieve the city. I was just short on movement and couldn't reach Frankfurt that turn. No problem I will crush them next turn.
Big problem... in the General's haste to get there he left his Army near Hamburg. The AI sense the error and was all over it. I tried to fight a field battle with a heroic withdrawal.
It was a noble death. That one stung for a while.......
Any other good ones out there??

[TevashSzat]

My venetian migration campaign. I had a full stack of italian spear militia, feudal knights, and dismounted knights but didn't have a general in the army. My faction leader had about 4 authority. I sent my army to take thessaloinca and then poof, they were gone leaving recently taken constantinople with a pathetic garrison. I would almost lose constantinople, but barely won due to blind luck. Pathetically, i would find that i had an extra good general right next to constantinople that would have probably stopped the desertion

[Specky the Mad]

im in the middle of wiping out the last power house on the map, the mongols as HRE just after the black death sweeps through so i pull all my main armies together before they get the plague and sign them up on a crusade for the holy lands so i can save some cash with no unit up keep on them, so as im taking over any city/castle in my way i get my best general a 10 star command and dread killer only to succumb to the plague from one of the couple towns left in the game with the plague just short of the target and then to lose what was left of the army to desertion because all my other armies were maxed out, one of the dumbest things i have ever done

[Mithradates]

My most annoying defeat was in my Sicily campaign. I had Algeirs with a decent garrison so i decided to push for Marakesh leaving a skeleton force to guard the citadel. When my strike had cleared two turns march the Moors launched a counter attack on Algeirs using their superior navy. The landed their sultan and his son and a depleted force of spearmen plus a depleted catapult crew. I had a handful of mounted sergants and mailed knights and a few 2 units of 50 spearmen and 3 units of peasant archers. I managed to kill the catapult and the sultans son leaving the Sultan alone and unable to touch me. However thinking that i might be able to wipe them off the face of the earth i sent the archers out to pick him off however i failed to flee inside my walls quick enough and in the resulting carnage he managed to rout and kill all my puny forced chasing the fleeing blagards into the castle and cutting the down to a man, the shame :(

[Ciaran]

That happens to me constantly, that I forget an army, or character, or suchlike, especially in the late campaign.
You know what I´m missing (I´ve been playing BI this afternoon for a change again)? The Movement point bar in the army and agent lists. One rightclick (well, two, one for armies and one for agents) and you can see which unit you have already used and which not.
One of my wishes were for a ingame notepad, by the way, to record what you´re planning to do. That would be helpful when reloading the game.

[Laconic]

Tactical stupidity. In a siege assault I tried splitting my forces, my best troops with all of my towers on one side of the citadel and the rest of my forces and two units of bombard on the other side.

The garrison was rather large for once and I wanted to use the towers as a diversion to suck their army to that side while I used my guns to quickly blow through three walls in a row on the other side to take the square before the enemy knew what was happening. He figured it out as soon as my men got inside the second wall.

He had a few junk units in the square that I didn't think would pose a problem, but they packed the breach and slowed my men down long enough for the rest of his forces to come and attack my men from the rear. The result was the complete annihilation of my only campaign army in that area and put my recent conquests in great danger.

[Digby Tatham Warter]

One of my wishes were for a ingame notepad, by the way, to record what you´re planning to do. That would be helpful when reloading the game.

Ever since RTW mods like EB or SPQR(these games can have large complicated turns mid/late game)I use a notepad and pen to remind me what I was planning and who should move where etc, because it seems to me that it is rare in these large complicated turns, that there is ever a good time to stop and get some sleep.

Without the notepad and pen, I am further tempted to go for that 'just one more turn, just to tidy things up'.