Sad or comedic I'm not sure.

Playing as the English I was embroiled in a continental war with the French, Spanish and Milanese against me. I'd taken Paris, Angers and Rennes off the French and the Milanese had taken Dijon. They'd decided to treacherously set off on a war against me and we'd had a few fights around the Paris area. Then a major force of them marched up with the intent of grabbing Paris off me. They consisted of around 5 siege engines, 5 lots of italian militia, 3 lots of crossbowmen and a member of their family. Easy, I thought, with my full stack of spearmen, mailed knights, 5 lots of longbowmen and faction heir.

Well I went in with the attack, flanking with my spearmen and longbowmen and me wheeling my knights and faction heir around once the spearmen had started the attack. The milanese were taken in by this and moved their militia in against my spearmen. As I was moving my cavalry round a git of a catapult got a dead on hit on my faction heir as he was moving at full gallop. A sniper couldn't have got off a better shot.

At which point my entire army collapsed despite me having a 2 to 1 advantage. The milanese family member cut apart all my knights on his own and I was left with the stupid commentator saying "We are winning the battle" one second then a couple of seconds later saying my troops were fleeing.

Ignominious wasn't the word. I was able to scrape up enough troops a second time around to beat off this milanese force but it was a major setback and I'm still fighting attritional battles around Paris, years later. That along with inquisitors getting 2 other members of my family a year after the major fight I'm suspecting a conspiracy against me in this particular game