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    I attacked the Gauls in Northern Spain with an army of elite Camillan legionnaries. My causalties: 7. Their casualties: 1 000.

    Anyone's got anything better?
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    haha 5 casualties against 2700 casualties,, me=seleukids vs augustan romans :))

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    Quote Originally Posted by glouch
    haha 5 casualties against 2700 casualties,, me=seleukids vs augustan romans :))
    Not possible! Just not possible!

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    Probably a very common thing, but in 0.81 I managed to get my Makedonian General unit of 25 people to cause around 350 Pontic casualties, while losing 4 men. (Of course, all my army fought and engaged enemy units while my general charged around. But I think that was the most impressive onslaught I ever achieved with a single unit).
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    465 Greeks (and not a single Spartan!) under Chremonides versus Antigonos's 3922 Makedonian barbarians. The Makedonians were left with 91 men, the victorious Greeks with 333 war heroes. Antigonos and Chremonides both perished in the battle, the former charging through boiling oil and the latter fighting on the walls of Athens.


    Granted, the AI did do a good bit of the traditional , which killed a good lot their troops, but once I came back from watching South Park they had charged and met their deaths in oil and a relentless hoplite shieldwall (which had been pushed back from the gates across a street during the battle) or on the walls fighting Chremonides.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Respenus
    Not possible! Just not possible!
    yes it is- if the whole army were those pathetic hellenic native spearmen (i frgt wat they r called)
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    Pantodapoi.

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    i was parthians against selucids..i regularly kill 3000 units with only like 6 casualties

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    one MILLION dollars.

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    how bout 1600 greeks (280 cavalry, 200 spartans) vs 3000 Maks under antigonos and heir. On the coast in light woods. almost completely killed them all both of their generals killed and i lost 250 men. they lost 2950.
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    Ive had a few flawless victories as Carthage - its not too hard to do when youre on the defensive on mountainous ground, with good missile units (balearic slingers) and your infantry line is all phalanxes. By the time the enemy climb all the way up and engage the line theyr exhausted and decimated from missile fire, and wont stand for very long no matter how tough a unit type they are. Then you just mop em up with youre cavalry! Tallyho!

    EDIT: Most decisive victory as the attacker anyone?
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    I've fought a battle with HA against tons of skirmishers. Didn't take a single loss until I ran out of ammo, and even then the amount was low. I forget the numbers, though. Something like 2000 to 10 loses.

    In vanilla I had many many battles where the loses were 0-10 against thousands.


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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Mark
    465 Greeks (and not a single Spartan!) under Chremonides versus Antigonos's 3922 Makedonian barbarians. The Makedonians were left with 91 men, the victorious Greeks with 333 war heroes. Antigonos and Chremonides both perished in the battle, the former charging through boiling oil and the latter fighting on the walls of Athens.
    Almost same thing =) 300 KH (under oldbones Chremonides) vs 2400 Mak (3 generals included) = 150 KH
    I'm ain't a military genius, all credits go to one unit of classic Hoplitai and one unit of Hoplitae Haploi defending the gates
    AI was successfully pushing me guys from the gates, fortunately me was defending Athens, where the central avenue goes exactly strait from the gates to the central square, that's why me guys were pushed in the corridor without being surrounded and did their worst

    KH're overpowered as long as they are guided by me


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    Currently on my parthian compaign, my kill ratio is probably around 1000 to 1 often i kill almost a thousand without a single loss

    Is it normal to have about 12 (aprox) settlements with Parthia by 262 BC?

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    My most devastating victory during my current campaign was just today, fighting as Sweboz against an equal army of Getai. I had 8 casualties, they had 1750.

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    I actually was the attacker. The Gauls spent a lot of time milling around while my slingers wore them down (never stop the enemy when he is doing something stupid). Move the cavalry to cut off their retreat and then - CHARGE!

    The rest is butchery.
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    As Baktria an army of mostly Persian Archer-Spearmen against an almost all infantry AS army (except for the FM). You can tell how it went, they marched towards my lines and got decimated by archer fire and when they made it to striking distance I charged and broke them.

    They lost like 1,500 to my 10

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    ^ Seige battle, I lost around 10 peasant infantry, the enemy lost like 4000+ medium infantry and heavy elite phalangites...

    It was very funny too see since they got slaughtered by the tower archers...and after I destroyed their seige towers in a charge, they tried to enter via the maingate and got boiled alive XD
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    Post a picture or it didn't happend.

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    "When I was 16, I won a great victory...."

    My Pahlava general, one Harasp a Dahae (sp?), has been fighting the Seleucids since 271. His army is composed of 2 units of Dahae Riders and 4 units of Parthian Horse-Archers. The force has lost twelve soldiers (excluding General's Bodyguard and including mercenaries hired to operate siege equipment and left to garrison towns) . Harasp has taken Ebkatana, Seleucia, Babylon, Antiocheia, Damascus, Zadrakata, Hekatompylos, Apameia, Gabai, Susa, Charax, Arbela, and Edessa. I would conservatively estimate that the number of enemy slain numbers close to 10,000.

    The single most decisive tactical victory was Harasp's utter annihilation of an attacking Seleucid host composed of 1x Persian Archers, 1x Eastern Slingers, 3x Medium Phalangites, 1x Caucasian Spearmen, 1x Anatolian Hillmen, 2x Eastern Skirmishers, 1x Medium-Heavy Greek Cavalry (names may not be exact, as I didn't write them down or anything). I believe there were about 7 or 8 casualties + about 5-6 bodyguard casualties. (Roughly 2000:13)

    The most decisive strategic victory was won by two of Harasp's brothers in the east. A series of running engagements in the Dayuan valley culminated in the destruction of the main Baktrian army. This removed the last obstacle to overrunning the Baktrians. The final battle was against light infantry and skirmishers (better troops having been picked off previously), so I think the other battle is more tactically decisive.

    The glory days ended around 260. Now the Pahlava are learning that administering an empire isn't as easy as toppling one

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