Glorious Victories

[macsen rufus]

When suiciding princes, when there's the option, I usually dismount them. Even if they run, they can't run FAST ENOUGH

[Deus ret.]

Now look. You've turned a thread about glorious victories into a discussion of suicide mission techniques actually this topic should have its place far from anything 'glorious' .

[ULC]

Hey, this is supposed to be about amazing victories and battle stratagies, not campaign stratiegies!

Speaking of which... Last night I was playing as the russians when the golden horde invariable invaded with 55,000 men ! This is the most I have seen them come in with, ever. My 2,540 men in Khazar felt the hammer first and last. An started with 8 units of halberdiers, 6 Arbalests and 2 Boyars.
Well the battle started out okay, with me losing men mostly to the GHA, them losing any GHC or GHW they sent over. For 6 striaght hours this continued, and they still kept coming long after the death of thier khan (who oddly enough was killed by his own archers, as I had run out of Arbalests by this time.) I was down to 3 units of Halb's and a Boyar. All of a sudden they retreated. Left. Just simple walked away. It was the most incredible thing ever! My men had killed 15,329 men to 1,342 losses, but captured a total 39,622 men! To bad the khan wasn't still alive, that would have been quite a pay check.

[Martok]

55,000 men?? Holy crap! You didn't mod the GH in some way did you?

[Deus ret.]

55,000 men?? Holy crap! You didn't mod the GH in some way did you?

I think the main reason is the 2,500 men he had in the province. The larger the garrison in 1230, the larger the Horde will be...although I admit to have never seen SUCH a number myself!

[ULC]

I didn't modify the Golden Horde directly; I modified the Unit choices (AI) part for barbarian_raider, increasing the numbers to 200-320, depending on the unit. This has resulted in massive armies with the Golden horde. For fun, I modified the number to all 500. I was rewarded with about 70,000 troops, of execellent mixtures too. BUt I could achive no more, and these massive number even at such high priorities were extremely rare. After 5 days of testing (russian High), they appeared only 5 times with more then 35,000 men out of 134 times tested. So it appears my men were INCREDIBLY LUCKY/UNLUCKY depending on point of view.