Heroic Victory? More like godly!

**Sonicdahedgie** · 08-02-2007, 14:59

Haha, nice one, Dryke. However, if you put two units on the spot directly in fornt of the gate, so that they are on REALLY thick square, then it's incredibly difficult for ANYTHING to breach them. Elephants are the only unit I haven;t tried this on.

**Globe** · 08-02-2007, 16:50

My uber victory was with the Seleucids.
I captured Capua and after that I got besieged by !!5!! Fullstacked Roman army's. After 2 turns of siege they attacked. 10.897 romans against 567 Seleucids, 2 Phalanxes and 1 Cathaparact.
How I won? Capua had only 2 ways of entering the main plaza, so I placed at every way 1 Phalanx

Though I havent got a picture to place in the history

s it was realy great.
It ended in 2 silver stars for my phalanxes and 3 bronze for my Cathaparacts
I eventually killed 9800 men (they routed and then came back ^^)
And I lost 5 Cathaparacts. Hannibal? Alexander? No, Globe is the greatest

**Caius** · 08-02-2007, 23:53

so I placed at every way 1 Phalanx

I use that option always.

**gaiusjulii** · 08-08-2007, 17:02

I was playing the Brutii once my troops all in southern greece smasing the spartans into the hell of my sandle when the Senate decide they want a peice of me and decide to lay seige to Tarentum, I had:

1 General Unit 1 Star
3 town watch
2 hestati
2 Velites
wooden Wall

The Senate:
2 Princepes
4 Hestati
2 Triarii
Genrerals Unit 4 star
4 Velites
3 units of peasents

So now I was going to auto resolve with absolute certainty of death and my beloved Leaders life at the hand of old men in togas, Well I decide to give it a go with the view if im gonna die it will be with style. The senate have 3 battering rams so I decide to use the streets to my advantage as did leonidas against persia. so I put in the main street on town watch backed up by 1 hestati auto fire and velites behind them the 2 hestati holding the flaking streets and my general in the main square and the other 2 town watch in side street hiding. so the battle starts the senate take walls and gates in no time chargin ther triarii and 3 hestati straight on to my waiting townwatch who disintegrate instantly however giving the hestati time to throw all pili and charge forward the triarii rout and but are pinned in place by their own hestati. now the sente send the principes into the fray only to be hit in the flank by my hidden 2 units of townwatch the left flank is hit by the genral unit and my hestati hold them in place while my general charges in and routs killing the general, now the main road is heavliy engaged the right flank hestati is free to join the fray in the main street using their pilum to murder most of the princepes now panic is rife the enemy runs trying to escpae is caught by the gates by my general who marched up the joining street i dont know the final tally but i think but i know i ended up with about 100 or less men.

**Sonicdahedgie** · 08-08-2007, 18:50

That's pretty nice, Gaius. However, I've won a siege with LESS men.

I was assaulting a city that had rebelled, in a gladiatorial fashion. So, a half stack of gladiators is a bit of a bitch to get rid of. I let them sally forth and I fought them with all my infantry nd everything. But eventually, they all were routing and I realized something.

What if they route, and never come back out the gates? Oh noes! That would be terrible!

So I react quickly, and decide to run a unit of Roman Calvary into the city while the gate is still open from the routing units. I successfully get inside, and I began chopping down the routing gladiators while they run to the square. Unfortunately, the city had a large stone wall or some other stone defense, which meant that my units had arrows being shot at them inside the city. I ignore this, as it's unavoidable.

I get to the square, and there's still around maybe a combined total of a whole unit of gladiators left. So I begin charging and running, charging and running. It's going pretty well, but I'm unhappily taking more casualties than I would like. My unit wasn't too happy about it either. But they stood fast and never did rout. I noticed, though, that when the numbers of both mine and their troops began to dwindle, something was off...

Seven minutes later, I have one calvary unit. They have exactly one gladiator. I tried to charge and run, but my horse wasn't able to charge just right. This duel lasted for maybe 3 whole minutes, and considering how fast units are supposed to die in this game, is like a 40 minute duel in real life. I finally won when I got enough room to charge and actually hit the bastard of a gladiator.

**DisruptorX** · 08-14-2007, 14:15

Greetings. I never, ever shrink from an opportunity to display my beautiful screenshots.

40 of those casualties were from me getting bored and sending in a cavalry unit.

I'm sure you can guess how I achieved this. If not, here's the spoiler, done on a different battle, same tactic:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../RTWpwned2.jpg

Ah, Rome, such horrific AI.