Post Heroic - Big Famous Battles

[Chirurgeon]

Alright in my Lusitannan AAR I had a huge battle with the Arevaci. I did not have any crack troops:

I deployed in a forest to take advantage of the combat bonus. The enemy never found the end of my right flank so I was able to move the men around to the left to shore things up. I had to use my general to counter everything the enemy was doing along with the mobile light swordsmen. I also had the skirmishers set up to do melee and to try to delay the enemy as much as possible. Here is a summary of the major movements during the battle. I am the blue team :)




Read the AAR if you want more info. It was one of the best battle I had ever fought in EB

[Maksimus]

One of the hardests battles I ever fought at Khorintos against Gonatas.. my god, I really wanted to quit and exit at one point

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

And this was after that when KH advanced.. I must tell you that I was hoping walls will help me kill at least 20% of the enemy... well - not on ALX.exe





Oh.. I play on VeryHard/Medium

[Maksimus]

Some new events in my fight for survival






And Athens

[Theodotos I]

I may not have done this right, but the above should be a picture of a battle I fought in my Pahlava campaign against two huge Ptolemaic armies and a small army of their Seleukid allies. That's right, allies. I had an all-cavalry army and had to race all over the map back-stabbing the phalanxes and pulling my horsemen out of danger. A glorious battle, took over an hour. I took this one photo, clicked to go back to the main screen, and got an immediate CTD. Still very enjoyable.

[Theodotos I]

Okay, that's no good. Tell me, as a complete newbie in this sort of thing, how do I get my pictures to come up? I posted that one over on photobucket, typed in the URL, and you can see what I got. Many thanks to any who can help.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Your link is directed to a 'folder'. You need it to be an actual picture, not a website. (It has to be something that ends in .jpg, .bmp, etc.)

[The Wicked]

Hi !!! Well this is not a campaing battle but it was a great battle so.....

[Maksimus]

One of the largest custom battles I ever saw
nice

[CaesarAugustus]

That was only a clear victory!?!?

[The Wicked]

That was only a clear victory!?!?

Yes !!!! maybe if i had cavalry and hunt them down, the enemy losses would be enough for a heroic victory ....

[Danzifuge]

Hi !!! Well this is not a campaing battle but it was a great battle so.....

thats freakin nuts. how do you manage to kill half an army and rout the other half without cavalry and no ability to surround? how did you manage to take so few losses after being virtually surrounded and outnumbered like 8:1? i know the ai is pretty stupid, but i smell some foul play.

[anubis88]

well he might a have an elite army against only levies...

[V.T. Marvin]

@anubis 88 and The Wicked - It would be interesting to know what was the ememy armies composition, but his one certainly was not elite - pretty ballanced hoplite army imo, without any inapropriate chevrons. Great job The Wicked

P.S. - On what wicked difficulty have you fought that?

[anubis88]

@anubis 88 and The Wicked - It would be interesting to know what was the ememy armies composition, but his one certainly was not elite - pretty ballanced hoplite army imo, without any inapropriate chevrons. Great job The Wicked

P.S. - On what wicked difficulty have you fought that?

oops, sorry ... I didn't see the units at the bottom, when i saw it the page didn't load fully

[The Wicked]

@anubis 88 and The Wicked - It would be interesting to know what was the ememy armies composition, but his one certainly was not elite - pretty ballanced hoplite army imo, without any inapropriate chevrons. Great job The Wicked

P.S. - On what wicked difficulty have you fought that?

Well All kind of medium heavy and light infantry except pikemen-phalanx formation units... This was a test for hoplites i play eb with bi, hoplites have shield wall and the short pike attributes and that as you can see made them very strong .. maybe too strong


ps . normal diff. I hate easy and i hate even more hard

[Tarquinius]

A pretty hard battle in the early conquest of Iberia, odds were 1:3 in my enemies favour, playing VH/M

[Theodotos I]

Trying this again. This was one of my most incredible battles ever. Close to three thousand men on the field, all-cavalry against elite phalangitai. Maybe you'll actually be able to see it this time.

[Maksimus]

More and more heroic - oh.. my ... g ...

[Maksimus]

Is anyone willing to post some of his screen's pls :)

[penguinking]

I had had a battle where I forgot how weak Casse generals are and charged my faction leader at a unit of skirmishers that wasn't routing. My faction leader died and my army routed. But I had a CTD afterward, refought the battle, and won a heroic victory.

[Cullhwch]

These aren't from EB, but I want to share them anyway due to their sheer epic nature...




The kicker is that I STILL didn't kill all of the armies around Sardis. Gah!
Sorry about the size.

[Mediolanicus]

I had had a battle where I forgot how weak Casse generals are and charged my faction leader at a unit of skirmishers that wasn't routing. My faction leader died and my army routed. But I had a CTD afterward, refought the battle, and won a heroic victory.

Actually, those chariots are great.
You just have to keep them moving all the time.

I always got Herioc victories while playing the Casse due to the fact that those chariots enormously lower enemy morale and cause massive routs while ploughing through enemy ranks.

[Olaf The Great]

Me-250 men, on normal size
Them 850 men on normal size.

My units, depleted but experienced Swordsman, one half unit of Gaestae and a general.

Them-Over 9000 Lougae

Me-won with 196 men.

Them, lost with no survivors

Me, Aedui, and them, Areverni

I killed their faction leader and destroyed their whole faction.


BTW on Mac at school :P

[penguinking]

Actually, those chariots are great.
You just have to keep them moving all the time.

I always got Herioc victories while playing the Casse due to the fact that those chariots enormously lower enemy morale and cause massive routs while ploughing through enemy ranks.

That's true, and I love the generals- they have a good supply of javelins too. But they suck in prolonged melee, even more than other cavalry does. And it can be very hard to extricate them from melee. Their morale affects are amazing, but sometimes I wish my general could beat a unit of skirmishers.

[Grriffon]

Actually, those chariots are great.
You just have to keep them moving all the time.

I always got Herioc victories while playing the Casse due to the fact that those chariots enormously lower enemy morale and cause massive routs while ploughing through enemy ranks.

I *HATE* the Casse generals. It's my only gripe about the faction, I absolutely love using all their other units. But if you look at those generals wrong, or sneeze in their direction, they die, with 95% of their bodyguards left alive.

[SwissBarbar]

i played a single battle, not in EB but in medieval II. I had heavy infantery and many archers (all in all about 2500 men) and was beeing attacked by ca. 21'000 peasants i won, that was quite funny. Gotta try that in EB

[Maksimus]

too bad people dont post here no more, looking at others major or important battles is very interesting for me at least.. I hope I will finish the mod i am working on soon and post new interesting battles.

[SwissBarbar]

Here's the result of the battle from wich i postet a Screenshot in the October competition (this one:)




The Macedonian Army was a great wall of spears. There was an unit of Argyraspides (Elite Phalanx), and the rest was 30%/70% Pezhetairoi and Phalangitai Deuteroi. Some Peltasts covered the flanks and the rear of the phalanx.

The reinforcement were composed of some levy hoplites.


This was the decisive battle for hegemony over sparta. The macedonians did attack on a very broad front. Their approaching was quite epic, i almost could feel the ground shake. But their light infantery who covered the flanks was rapidly taken down by the roman long range units and heavy infantery. The heavy infantery in the center bound the macedonian phalangitai in combat, who were without protection from the flanks and rear without their light infantery.

The result was a desater and the greatest massacre in history so far.

[Carthaginian General]

I would post this stuff, but noooo.... I have to wait until that damn reform occurs before I get my Iberian Assault Infantry :(

But when I do, those Seleucids in Asia Minor trying to re-conquer my foothold in Pergamum will regret not accepting my protectorate... and I'll post a screen.

[Tartaros]

an older one, 1.0 vh/md

this battle was really hard. more than one hour of fighting with a lot of seleucid elites.
after the battle i was able to conquer alexandreia like napoleon under the pyramids...