Largest Battles you've fought? (numerically)

**Senatus Populusque Romanus** · 11-29-2007, 01:25

Originally Posted by Long lost Caesar

how the HELL do you guys get those many men into a fight?!

1. It depends on the situation.
2. You have to have a good PC, or edit preference.txt (enable "unlimited men on battlefield")

**Xehh II** · 11-29-2007, 01:51

Man, my battles are minor arguements compared to yours, my biggest battle has only been 3700 Baktrians(me) vs. 4000 AS guys.

**Intranetusa** · 11-29-2007, 07:23

Originally Posted by Commilitone

1. It depends on the situation.
2. You have to have a good PC, or edit preference.txt (enable "unlimited men on battlefield")

Wow, how do you do that? Which file in the EB folder?

**Digby Tatham Warter** · 11-29-2007, 08:22

As he said, edit preference.txt (enable "unlimited men on battlefield") but only bother if you have a good PC.
I change mine by first doing a search in Windows XP- Files and Folders, type in: preference.txt(might be preferences.txt), clic on it when it finds it, scroll down to the right part, change it and at the top of the document clic on the 'save'
And seen as you don't seem to be aware of preference.txt you could consider while your there, disabling the ghastly green arrow markers and switching to full screen battles, via 'minimal UI'

Personally I prefer just 1 army of my own, I value my troops to much to let the AI near them.
The largest scrap I have tried was testing my PC via Barbarian Invasion on max settings, it struggled slightly on a 20,000+ night river battle.

**Intranetusa** · 11-29-2007, 18:33

Originally Posted by Digby Tatham Warter

20,000+ night river battle.

Wow...what are your specs?

My comp lags on medium to med-high when there are more than 8000 troops fighting.

**Megas Pyrrhos** · 11-30-2007, 04:35

Fought a battle as the Epeirotes vs. the Romani, with me besieging Roma.

If I remember correctly, it was about a 12,500 man battle. Approximately 5,500 for me and the rest to the Romans. I lost. Badly. Something of a "pyrrhic victory" though for the Romans. This was a camillan Roman army too.

**Ibrahim** · 01-22-2008, 21:21

Hello!
I'm new here, but would like to share my biggest battle(s)

the largest battle I had wasn't too big: ~800 seleukids vs ~2500 romani (unit scall normal- plus I usually remeber/ record the deaths more) ended 15 min. later in a heroic victory with almost all the romani dead (96%),with the faction leader and faction hier of the romsni dead, while I lost (still remember vividly- not lying) an unbelievably low 17 dead and three dozen wounded (too bad the pics were lost for evidence- least the written records are here), but it was fought near Taras, c.200BC. The trick was that it was basically a giant ambush that hit the romans in the rear, and left, between a hill and the coast

. commander:Ho basileus seleukeias (king of the seleukids)., I played the battle on the very day EB full version was released, and was the last pre-EB1 battle fought.

breakdown:

1-Basileus ( chev. gold)
2-2 units of hellenikoi kataphractoi (all understrength, with 2-3 silver chev.)
3-7 pezhetaroi and argyraspides (argyraspides at 1/2 stregth, rest 40-55men per unit, between 3 bronze and 1 gold, average at two silver)
4-2 toxotai ( 3 bronze chevrons)
5-2 peltastai (ditto)
6-1 prodromoi (1 silver)

**TWFanatic** · 01-23-2008, 03:09

WOAH!! That must be amazing to play with so many men. You are very, very lucky people. I can't play with more than 7,000 unless I want an intolerable lag, and that's with all unit settings turned down to the lowest.

Anyone know how I could play bigger battles? More RAM maybe? Can you buy RAM for a laptop?