"I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
"Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
"I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
Mafia: Promoting peace and love since June 2006
Just fought a battle where the Byzantines sallied out of Naples against my attack. It was pea soup fog, with no archers on either side. The enemy brought about 700 militia spearmen in the castle and reinforcements of 120 horse archers, 120 heavy cavalry, and over 1000 peasants against my 500 assorted cavalry units.
So, of course, they had the onus to attack me, and wasted all their cavalry in a frontal assault far ahead of their infantry. The rest of the game was spent trying to rest my cavalry enough so they didn't get 'very tired' between breaking and sweeping up unit after unit of Byzantine idiots. My general's bodyguard had only killed about 150, but they had singlehandedly captured over a thousand men by the end of the fight.
So I'm forced to picture an immense mass of prisoners following 30 horsemen around, so cowed by their defeat that it doesn't occur to them they so dramatically outnumber my whole army they could probably beat them to death with their bare hands.![]()
Last edited by Ramses II CP; 08-05-2007 at 07:50.
When the Julii empire was growing, the people of Corduba rebelled against our Julii people.
They rebelled. Our soldiers were forced to withdraw to outside the city. A full stack appeared. Everyone had bronce shields, that means they had a bonus on defense.
We sieged them, and we won a heroic victory. Sadly I dont have any screenshoots.
Names, secret names
But never in my favour
But when all is said and done
It's you I love
I don't have anything too sweet yet, but I had an army of two units of Julli Peasants in a conquered Carthage town and Carthage sent a force to retake it. Being very new to the game, I decided to launch an attack on his troops. They turned out to be one unit of militia and one unit of slingers. I sent my captain's unit against the slingers (hoping for a quick victory) and had my other unit try to draw off his militia unit. WELL...... I followed my captain's unit closer and saw them suffer 60% casualties, but managed to route the slingers and kill nearly all of them. Now, here is the odd part: I went back to find my other peasants and found them happily standing... surrounded by dead guys! They took like 35% casualties, but I guess the enemy routed and so they chased them down and caused around 55% to them!
Go figure!
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