Quote Originally Posted by greaterkhaan
Ok, I had something rather odd happen in my recent Lithuanian campaign(XL).

Ok, basically, I decided right at the beginning to go after Novgorod, for the income and to drop a potential threat. By the 4th turn or so, I was ready to invade. However, they had already gone and conquered Finland, so I was able to conquer Novgorod with relatively little effort. By the time I was ready to finish them off, my first heir had matured. He had secret pride and a killer insinct, raising his valor to 5. Unfortunately, he was absolutely awful in piety, acumen, command, etc...So i sent him on a suicide mission into Finland to take on 300 Novos by himself. Now somehow, once the battle started, it said that my heir had 10 valor! He, by himself, took down 227 troops, mostly vikes and spearmen, though there was a unit of druzhina that suffered as well. I can't believe the guy nearly beat an entire army by himself! How did he end up getting 10 valor? Anyone know?
Well, I do remember a viking prince killing and routing 100 fyrds and 60 archers by himself. he came with 100 thralls which were dispatched by arrows. And then routed my army.

The other one I recall is one of my princes dying over a huge pile of corpses in a very long and epic battle. It's just that when you have very high valour plus some "hard to kill" trait, you can really slaughter a lot of enemies...the starting with 10 valour is unusual though. But if you have the two or three V&V proving morale bonus plsu a good general, why not?