Quote Originally Posted by Durallan
One time as denmark I had one hell of a battle against the Timurids, 4 of their armies against 3 of mine, and one of mine was late arriving! it was a bloody battle, in the end, I managed to win, but I didn't get a battle marker on the campaign map!

(on this day the fields would have been stained red from all the fallen men on the battle map you could see.)

I was really annoyed about it not showing a battle marker, because you can't get a bigger open field battle than one like that against the timurids and somehow manage to win
Not the size of the opposing forces is important, only the odds and the outcome of a battle. I have had a heroic victory in a battle when i had only 1 unit of general bodyguard and the enemy one unit of dismounted feudal knights. The pre-battle screen favoured them a bit, but my initial charge killed their captain and half of the unit and they routed. I lost 1 man, they were annihilated. So i got a heroic victory.
On other occasions, I had brutal, fight-to-the-last-man battles with slightly less than 1000 men on my side and about 1500 on the other side. i was victorious, but due to the many casualties on my side no heroic victory.