Glorious Victories

[seireikhaan]

I had one particular battle that had me on the edge of my seat as the danish. I invaded wessex, which belonged to france, and engaged in a river battle with about 550 or so on each side. I felt confident because I had a good commander leading my vikings, highlanders, an exra rk unit, and two units of bulgarian brigand mercs. However, I, fell for the old bridge trick. I sent units of vikes in the first wave to, ideally, bust a hole through so everyone else could pour out. However, the AI waited on the other side of the bridge, not crossing, and summarily pounded the first vike into running with three units.

Chasing after, they followed onto the bridge, where I was finally able to get one on one vikes vs. spearmen. I got the hole and marched everyone accross as soon as possible, with my two RKs leading the rest accross. Meanwhile the vikes went after one of their archers, to keep them busy if nothing else. Then it all went wrong. Somehow, my largest unit of RK's got absolutely slaughtered my one of the french RK's, barely taking two down. I managed to flank their RK with my general while getting a feudal seargeant into the front just after the RK died. Somehow, my feudal seargeant gets routed by the rk, leaving my general in a bad spot. The good news is he finished off their RKs. The bad news was he got flanked by their general, the five star command um that france starts with, and died.

As of this moment, both armies were in tatters. The only units resembling something decent were my BB and their archers, who were trying to duel my BB on their side of the river. My BB started routing, but I managed to quickly rally one of them. The other ran clear back to my side of the river and well past the bridge before it composed itself, along with a few units of vikes and a unit of highlanders, none of which had over 14 guys left. Now all they have left is their UM, with 19 guys left, and two archer units with thirty or so. Their general chased my routers as far as he could, while back on their side, my BB slaughtered each of the archers in hand to hand, one at a time.

Back on my side, I eventually was able to surround the general, firing arrows into him with both BB's, and collapsing on his flank with a wavering clansmen. Overall, my forces ended the battle with about 80 soldiers, 48 of which were Bulgarian brigands. All of my units were flickering back and forth to wavering/routing by the end. The forces that they were able to retreat with was 18. Considering all of the cavalry perished halfway through the battle, I think that was probably my bloodiest battle ever.(in terms of percentage of total soldiers who were killed/captured) I also never imagined that bulgarian brigands would ever save the day for me!

[General Dazza]

Last night I had a victories as HRE which was a pivotal battle against the papacy, and was like Greater Khan's above.

We both had about 1800. I placed my army upon a slight ridge with a forest to my right and left. The ridge dropped down to a village then rose on the other side to another forest. I had infantry in front with archers behind and cav to the sides.

The Papacy attacked in force up the ridge with infantry and some cav from the side. It was a pretty dour battle. They got the upper hand however and my front routed. I managed to withdraw some cav units though and get some infantry to halt too. Half their force gave chase. But as my units routed, the reinforcements came in numbers and, combined with my leftover front line troops, managed to encircle their chasers and smash them. I reassembled my troops and began the march back to his side of the field. As they came up the rise towards the enemy they opened up withy their hidden catapults. I sent my cobbled together cavalry troops ahead to remove them. The advantage I had was that I had now some archers and they didn't, so I reassembled the front line and marched to within archer range. Their front line then attacked and, again, routed my centre infantry, However I managed to, again, keep some milita sergeants and cav to the side. And again half their force chased my routers.

I then encircled the non-chers (peasants, orban militia and militia sergeants)and smashed/routed them. Their troops that gave chase had given up in the village at the middle of the field. I regrouped my men (for about 4th time)and moved in, surrounded them and totally wiped them out in a village battle. In the end the body count was pretty even (he lost about 200 more), but the victory was mine - and very enjoyable for its to-and-fro desperate nature.

[Caliburn]

A couple of years ago I had a great campaign as the byzantines, there are two especially memorable battles, both against the Spanish.

In the first one, my army led by an ex-prince landed to some montainous Spanish region. The battle took place on the coastal map where there's a bowl-like valley in the middle, surrounded by steep hills. The Spanish had a full stack of good quality troops, and I had my basic Byzantine setup boosted with Steppe Heavy.

They were half up the hill, but still in a weaker position than they could have had. I marched the main part of the army down to the valley, using one of the Steppe Heavies to absorb enemy missiles and try to get them to charge, which was a mistake, as the cavalry was quickly reduced to 1/3 by the enemy missile fire. My cavalry started forming into a long, perfect line on the coastal side, ready to flank the enemy. There was nothing fancy here, the main lines clashed. But I've never managed such perfect cavalry charges as that day.

In the other battle I had to attack an army of the Spanish sitting on a mountain. I had some mercenary spearmen with me, which is why I probably won the battle: My main infantry force (maybe seven units total, Byzantine Infantry and archers) approached the enemy directly from the bottom, while I sent my four spearmen units along with one unit of Varangian Guards on an approach from the left side of their flank. The main infantry stopped, and I used my spears to lock enemy infantry so I could bring my Varangians to the highest point of the mountain. And indeed, the spears locked with an enemy line running parallel to the mountainside, thus they were on an even footing, no high ground bonuses to the enemy. Yet, the spears were starting to waver, but just in time the Varangians arrived on the top of the line, punched through the enemy, and as the Varangians were now on the high ground, they quickly rolled the enemy line, routing most of the enemy army, who fled downhill to the infantry waiting below.

[ULC]

Ok here they are!

I was steamrolling the Baltics as the Teutonic Order by the Popes authority, as the danes had excommunicated themselves by attacking the poles. I was wrong though, as they were simple consolidating their forces in Friesland (I couldn't see it at the time). 2 turns later, after a naval blitz, they invade Lithuania with 5000+ men to my 1500 men.The results...



My personal best was when I was playing as the Portugeuse. I had captured Burgundy the previous turn and the french invaded 2000+ strong, compared to my 800-850. It was both a bridge battle and a massacre. I slaughtered them with my archers and jinetes as they attempetd to cross the bridge. The French King then attempted a massive cavalry charge mostly composed of RK's, which were in turn met with the same predictable fate as his spearmen and men-at-arms. During this time I had used a total of 4 units to hold the bridge, with one unit going so far to personally kill 232 men. Almost all units that came after the first two waves were routed insantly by my Jinetes and Ex-Prince. Results below...



Oh, each battle has it's own replay, so if there a way to post movies, tell me.

Love the stories guy's, keep em coming. Hey, maybe we could run a bit of a competition for "Most Glorious Victory"

[Voivode of Romania]

A couple of weeks ago, I had a glorious victory with the Byzantines.

It was quite early in the campain. I decided to invade Hungary (held by the Hungarians) I had an army of about 2000 men vs the Hungarian's 1500 men.

I had around 1500 units of Byzantine Infantry (very good in MedMod v1.85), 150 Kataphraktoi, 200 Trebizond Archers, and somewhere between 150 and 200 mounted sergeants (mercs.). I also had 7 units of reinforcements, mainly ciks and spearmen. My first move was with the Archers. I sent them in a forest with a good view of the Hungarians. I managed to take out a few men, but over half of my archers got slaughtered, so they ran.

My next momve was sendinng my mounted serg. to the left of their army, and about 80 Kataphraktoi to the right. Befor I attacked with mt cavalry I sent about 500 Byzantine Infantry to the dead center of their army.

Of course most of my Infantry were killed, but the remaining held the line, so I charged my cavalry to the back of their army's general. (I was surprised how good the Kataphraktoi were).

Then I sent half of the remaining infantry to help in the fight. After about 5 minutes, I had captured abou 700 men and killed about 1000. The rest ran away. I had only lost about 350-400 men. I rarely send my king/main general into battle. If he dies, your army's morale will take a beating.

[cegorach]

That was something to remember.

The 'peasants' in the Wallachian army are not peasants, but rebels with pikes/spears.



Battle was relatively bllodless, because I waited on the opposite side of the river and shot anyone who crossed the bridge.

The two enemies fought each other and I took the province back.

I lost about 3-7 men dead and killed at least 1200 capturing another 400.

Not fair and incredibly lucky, but otherwise I would be crushed like a bug, so no wonder I still remember it.



MY Hungarian campaign in PMTW was incredibly hard with about 8 massive battles ( 5 : 1 - 8 : 1) fought one after another. Not all of those were victorious, but I suffered only one-two defeats just like this one.




Later it was becoming increasingly easier, as always it does, especially when my generals reached 8-9 star level in defense, but not without some really hard battles before.





In earlier times - one of my epic battles in 'friends only' mod baesd on known tabletop battle system - against 4 armies of Undead. Very, very hard battle.

[Martok]

Yeesh, cegorach; those were some long odds you were fighting. I'm particularly amazed you won the battle in Constantinople. Even with the Spanish and Wallachians fighting each other, things must still not have looked very good for you....