The saddest thing to happen in a campaign
Anyone have sad stories from Medieval 2?
I was just remembering my M2 campaigns and started thinking about the most frustrating and unpleasant things to happen. Finally I remembered one thing that I just shrugged off at the time, but what was probably one of the biggest losses I have had thus far.
It was during the mid-to-late game in the campaign by the Polish, when after having strolled through parts of Middle Europe a large army of veteran cavalry units, maybe 8 silver and gold Polish Nobles and 6 Lithuanian Cavalry, was compiled in Northern Italy, only to rebel at a later time. After taking the Venetian cities in the North the Polish king sat the army east of Rome to stop the Sicilians from attacking the rich Northern Italian cities.
The king was unwilling to piss the Papacy off and busy playing with his new halberd/arquebus/hussar armies elsewhere, and thus the noblest of the nobles just waited, only to counter the all too slow and weak stream of Norman knights and Pavise Crossbows from Southern Italy.
For years the proud army waited, slowly becoming more and more disgruntled by not being able to attack and pillage, instead leading an endless train of retraining to the old German castles up north. Of the original veterans born in the homelands maybe 30 % remained, and none of those were beardless lads - indeed, closing 60 were most.
At some point, the general died, and a few years later the stack turned rebel, and the foolish king failed to notice anything, busy playing cat and mouse with the English. Only later the sad fact was revealed, and the king sent a punishing party to show the world that a new age had begun, an age not looking kindly to heroes.
It turned out to be quite a tough battle. The novice army consisted of city-raised halberdiers, arquebusiers and hussars, led by a young lad with only a few hairs on his chin, though with no hair adorning his head. A medley of breaking of spears, and smiting of swords, with slaying of men and horses ensued. The rebellious Lithuanian Cavalry units were bagged and destroyed by a fast and hard strike by the hussars, but the infantry lines soon broke apart and the arquebusiers were repeatedly charged as the slow halberdiers failed to cover them.
Finally the diminished militia army was forced to regroup into a square, the halberdiers wavering as the handful of arquebusiers sought the cover of their arms. Under the final charge the square buckled and the battle seemed done but the remaining small forces of arquebuses ran to the flanks and started killing man and horse, and the young boy-general, backed with maybe five of his retinue clad in the latest Italian harness, charged to the back of the villainous force, putting the rest of the golden rebel Polish Nobles to run.
It was indeed a sad day for the world, seeing such proud heroes fall.
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He had such great stats too.
), I sent my general's bodyguard after them. 
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
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