Largest Battles you've fought? (numerically)

[Intranetusa]

What are the largest battles (in terms of army size/numbers) you've fought?

Here is one of mine: 2 full stack Polybian armies vs 2 stacks of silver chevroned uber rebels north of the alps.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I don't have a screenie, but it was Maks vs. Rome, 3000 vs. 6500, near Rome. I lost the flower of my cavalry and they lost their army.

[Kongeslask]

In a Seleucid campaign i 0.8something, playing on huge unit settings, I attacked a Ptolemid stack near Palmyra which was eleutheroi at the time. At least two rebel stacks consisting mostly of eastern skirmishers joined battle. I believe I lost about 2000 men and the enemy over 7000.

[Folgore]

My largest battle saw 11564 men on the field. I made a small AAR about it a while ago:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=95011

[Digby Tatham Warter]

My largest battle saw 11564 men on the field. I made a small AAR about it a while ago:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=95011

That's about the size of my largest, my 1 army against 3 armies, I like the odds, but my troops get tired, and run out of missiles, the poor poppets. I have had quite a few around the 9,500-10,500 size.

[J.Alco]

Unfortunately I deleted the savegame of my largest battle So I can't say for sure the numbers involved, but to put this way:

I was playing as the Romani, against the Aedui. The battle was fought on the outskirts of Mediolanum. I had a full army stack (comprised of Camillan units) and a quarter stack supporting (comprised of Celtic and Italian Mercenaries). The Aedui had a full stack and a half stack all of their own regional units. Of course, as the AI often does, they had little cavalry support.

Unfortunately, when the battle started, I found myself unexpectedly controlling the Mercenaries instead of the full stack that I wanted to control. But I was clever. I disabled the AI for reinforcements thing, then pulled off an Alamo with the mercenaries (engage as many enemy troops as possible, kill as many of them as the mercs can, and then be utterly massacred). By the time the Aedui were finished dealing with the mercs, the rest of my army had arrived on the field and I was able to take control of it and easily slaughter the Gauls. Unfortunately, because I had to sacrifice the mercs, it was a clear victory instead of a heroic one.

Still, as I always say, better that some turncoat barbarian scum die instead of good, honest Romans.

If I had to guess as to numbers, I'd guesssss...roughly 3800-4000 Romans against 4300-4700 Aedui. When it comes to losses, I think the Romans lost about 700-1000 men. The Aedui 3500-4000.

[Senatus Populusque Romanus]

In SPQR:TW mod, 15000(Roman) vs. 19000 (Gauls)

In EB, 9000 (Roman) vs. 8700 (Makedonia)

[Pharnakes]

In SPQR:TW mod, 15000(Roman) vs. 19000 (Gauls)

Not trying to be rude here, but does that mod have apoint except to create the largest possible blood bath? I mean you even have those sheets so you can count how many people you've killed, and all buildings seem to be pretty much insta build, just to let you make yet more men to feed into the meat grinder....

[Long lost Caesar]

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

[Senatus Populusque Romanus]

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]

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

[Intranetusa]

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?