I had one really weird battle. Weird in the sense... this couldn't possibly have happened could it?

Well here it is:

I: AS one half stack of medium troops - mostly archers & and slingers + some eastern axemen & one pantodapoi phalangitai unit. Some light cavalry. All in all about 10 units.

Reiforcements: another half stack, comprising of archers, archers and a few phalangitai.


Enemy: Baktria. One full stack mainly archers, archers, some light cavalry and a lot's of pantodapoi.


Well here it is: the enemy was defending a bridge; hence my need for some reinforcements. But the odd thing was that the enemy did not hold the bridge; and of course that my reinforcements did not arrive till the battle was basically already won.

So I quickly realised the opportunity to capture the bridge and hold it with my phalangitai hoping that I could 'negotiate' a secure crossing for my archers to start the usualy archery duel with the enemy. If I could do this- it would be the same as any ordinary battle; only with half the field to manoeuver. I wouldn't need those reinforcements anymore. So off my pantodapoi phalangitai went.

Of course the Baktrians weren't going to let that happen - they rushed with half the army towards the bridge. So I ordered my pantodapoi to stop right in front of that bridge - and just stare them away again. But the Baktrians refused to be stared away and as one mass tried to run right through the phalangitai. Needless to say they only ran into certain death; especially so when I ordered the archers to shoot flaming arrows into the mob on the bridge, ordered the slingers to target the mob on the bridge; and ordered my axemen to cover the phalangitai' flanks... And since those axemen carry javelins with them...

Result: the pantodapoi, on their own hold about three quarters of the entire army; and that were three quarters who didn't see Baktra again. The remainder of the army that had not run into the death trap or slipped over the slippery mess the bridge had become by now was shot down by reinforcements that had finally made it to the field.

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Coupled to another battle which earned me the crossed swords mark on the strat map this battle meant the end of the Baktrian kingdom.