Heroic Victory? More like godly!
Lecis Magna, the small town east of Nepte, was being controlled by your truly, Sonic, as the Scipii. The Egyptians began to wage war, entirely unprovoked. Maybe me being the second strongest faction was it...Oh well, anyways....
I had set the town to automanage, with a military build after Egypt became hostile, since their territory is directly next to mine. Unfortunately, I had very little time before he attacked, so there was a very small number of troops.
Sonic - 5 units
Three wardogs
Two Hastati
Total: 225 men.
Defenses-Wooden Wall
Egypt- 9 units
1 Pharoah's bowmen
2 Scythed Chariots (Captian Unit)
1 Nile Spearmen
4 Pharoah's spearmen
1 Desert Axemen
Total: 630 men
Equipment- Two battering rams
As soon as I saw that he had two battering rams, I knew the wall was lost, so I decided to setup at the plaza. That's when I noticed an alley way, I decided I could use it to my advantage. If they flanked me, I would be screwed nomatter what the position, so I assumed that they would send all their troops through this area, since it was the main street.
When the units came up, they would go for the Hastati that were actually standing in the street. But The secondary Hastati in the alley way would be in a permanant flanking position, to help the other hastati. The wardogs, I decided, would be sent in once the enemy was weakened, or I my units were losing a battle.
The first unit up is a unit of Chariots. This seemed logical, but it was irksome. the second they hit, they began breaking through my lines, which had to remain perfect for the plan to work, so I unleashed a unit of Wardogs. The General had been sent in first, and was also one of the first Chariots to die. The Wardogs worked much better than I imgained because, like a fool, the enemy had already sent his infantry towards my Hastati.
Down a narrow street.
The opposite direction.
Of the Chariots.
Routing Chariots.
Routing Scythed Chariots
And remember, Chariots+Routing=Elephants+Routing
Did I mention that the street was very narrow, and packed full of living Egyptian meatbags?
The routing chariots did a great deal of damage, which was probably what turned the tide of the battle. But that's not all! The Wardogs, which had routed the chariots, follwed the wake of destruction, and gnawed on all living things available. By the time they were dead, the next unit coming forward, the Desert Axemen, was at 33.
They died fast.
One to the next unit! The Pharoh's Spearmen! They came forward, fought, and then ran like little female Wardogs.
Then, another unit of Chariots appeared. They charged, I swamped them, sent the Wardogs, the Chariots route, and enemy casualties for all!
Unfortunately, there were many less routing chariots to deal too much more damage. Pity. I had used both of my last two Wardogs on accident. This, however, wasn't to big of a loss, as the gnawed their way down the street for a good amount of time. I decided to let the dog masters stay in the back, as weak as they might be for small reinforcements.
Next up, another Pharoh's Speamen, followed close behind by a the unit of Nile Spearmen. The Pharoh's Spearmen, unfortunately for them, had been positively decimated by Chartios and, in all probablity, Wardogs. About this time, I remembered that the hastati had Pili, so I toggled on the fire at will, mode. The slow moving phanalax was clobbered by Pili from both units, and ran before it ever fought. This was very disheartening to the Nile Spearmen, who barely fought at all before running like hell.
About then is when all hell broke loose. There were so many routing signs, I thought they were all running, so I charged my Hastati, who ran about half-way down the street before running smack dab into a wall of, what is probably the most unbalanced unit in the game, Pharoh's Bowmen. I told my Hastati to leg it back to my defense zone, because they could take them on line-to-line.
While running back, the last Pharoh's Spearmen unit came infront of thePharoh's bowmen, so they had no choice but to hail mary tyheir arrows. If the Spearmen had been a few seconds later, my units probably would of been slaughtered. luckily, they made it back and the Pharoh's Pikemen slowly advanced, with the Pharoh's Bowmen running to get in front. the Pharohy's Bowmen reach the Hastati first, and I released the bars and unleashed the Wardog Trainers. I don't think they scared them too much.
Either way, the Pharoh's bowmen retreated, follwed very closely by the Pharoh's Pikemen. Thus, the battle was won, and I took to chasing down the routing units (Stupid Wardogs ran off.)
Sonic - 5 units
Wardogs - 4 Men
Hastati - 24 Men
Wardogs - 9 Men
Hastati - 34 Men
Wardogs - 11 Men
Total: 82 Men
Egypt - ? Units
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Total: 30 Men
P.S. To anyone that's noticed, am I creating a bit too mant topics?
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Originally Posted by TosaInu
s it was realy great.
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