Random RTW crazyness

[Gaius Scribonius Curio]

Hahaha... mirth!

Anyways not really as funny but more immensely lucky. One time as the Kingdom of the Parthians I was fighting endless Scipionic full-stacks with my experianced army, (led by my only commander ever to be called the Horseman... I was amazed). Anyways after winning two heroic victories in a row (in one turn) their faction heir (Gaius Marcellus, at least its similar to a historical character) rocked up with another full-stack with a half-stack of reinforcements. Somehow I managed to win again, but during the fighting, Marcellus and his bodyguard were surrounded and broke. He still had a sizeable bodyguard and I didn't want him coming back so I immediately set three units of HAs chasing him to run him off the map.

He was actually out of range you could see the arrows (hundreds of them falling well-short). Anyway just as he reached the edge of the map one single arrow (that I could see) soared into the middle of the pack of Romans and hit Marcellus between the shoulderblades, and bang he was gone.

I was in shock for the next five minutes. Thats not supposed to happen!!!!

Thats also the moment I decided to start a new campaign, (even the Gods were with me... absolutely no challenge... lol).

[Quirinus]

Was that bad? I would be ecstatic.... haha.

I remember once, in a BI bridge battle versus the Huns, I was winning, and chasing the routing enemy across the stream when I suddenly got a message that my general has drowned. After surviving and defeating the Huns many times, he drowns. Still, it was a hard-fought battle, and he was old anyway, so I let him go.

[The Wandering Scholar]

Must have wanted a cool down after all that fighting but forgot he still had all his armour on.

[Punicus]

Was I going crazy, or have I seen weak units that are forced to man the walls in a siege jump off and commit suicide rather than fight? I remember that and remember laughing at it too, lol.

Also, I love seeing how high I can make an enemy soldier go flying when he's charged by cavalry, chariots, elephants, etc. I once made a Roman soldier fly higher than the walls of a large city!

[Shieldmaiden]

During a Julii campaign against Spain, General Flavius - the Conquerer of Gaul, Germania, and Britain, Faction Leader with command stars and cool traits coming out of his butt - did battle a tiny army of Bull Warriors and riff-raff with an Onager, outnumbering them 10 to 1.

Naturally, the 1 Onager shot they fired before getting flattened hit Flavius right on the bonce, crushing him.

There's probably a lesson in that

[The Wandering Scholar]

Onagers are great for targeting enemy generals

[The Wandering Scholar]

Playing as Scipii I sieged Carthage, they had a full stack with 2 units of ellies, I had half a stack of general, hastati/princeps and missiles (velites and merc peltasts) I fought off their infantry on the walls and lined my forces up. They ran their ellies around by the walls en route to the town centre, I set infanty/ missiles to fire at will, both ellies went amok about 8 intotal straight through their forces who were coming from the centre to the walls, on normal unit sizes around 300 perished turning the battle to my favour. You should of seen those ellies!!

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

During a Julii campaign against Spain, General Flavius - the Conquerer of Gaul, Germania, and Britain, Faction Leader with command stars and cool traits coming out of his butt - did battle a tiny army of Bull Warriors and riff-raff with an Onager, outnumbering them 10 to 1.

Naturally, the 1 Onager shot they fired before getting flattened hit Flavius right on the bonce, crushing him.

That sounds exceedingly familiar. Many a time my general has had a huge rock hurled at him, and many a time it has hit him directly. When I've tried it against the enemy general, the projectile has rarely managed to hit even a single one of his bodyguard - never mind the general himself.

On one occasion, however, I decided to try and dodge these missiles. I saw one a rock coming directly in my eight star general's direction. When the missile got closer, I concluded this it would probably hit somewhere around where the general was currently standing, so I moved him out of the way in the hope of preventing his death. Lo and behold the stone hits exactly where I moved him to, resulting in him instantaneously ending up massacred.

[Caius]

I fought the same battle twice due to problems, and twice my general got owned. Roman catapults are bugged.

[Celt Centurion]

During a Julii campaign against Spain, General Flavius - the Conquerer of Gaul, Germania, and Britain, Faction Leader with command stars and cool traits coming out of his butt - did battle a tiny army of Bull Warriors and riff-raff with an Onager, outnumbering them 10 to 1.

Naturally, the 1 Onager shot they fired before getting flattened hit Flavius right on the bonce, crushing him.

There's probably a lesson in that

Ah, gave him a "pounding headache"eh?

Strength and Honor

Celt Centurion

[Spartan198]

Ah, gave him a "pounding headache"eh?

Strength and Honor

Celt Centurion

I woulda' said "a crushing weight on his shoulders".

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Was I going crazy, or have I seen weak units that are forced to man the walls in a siege jump off and commit suicide rather than fight? I remember that and remember laughing at it too, lol.

This kindof thinhs are not funny when they happen to you
I had a hoplite unit on the wall when the enemy broke through my walls .. I then ordered the hoplite unit to go down so they could go and defend the hole ... but what they did??
over a half of the unit jumped down from wall and got killed!!!
I won the battle but deleted that unit in the camp map .. sometimes the shortest way to somewhere is not the best one!!!!

[Hannibalbarc]

I once had one of my onagers fire a large flaming rock at the enemy general only to hit just wide of unit, but the unfortunate general standing a little to the left of the unit got the flaming ball of death square in his chest, it's kind of hard to believe how a large rock like that only kills one man and it turns out to be the general.

[TruePraetorian]

Playing in singleplayer, I was the Brutii. It was me vs Egypt. I lined up my men in perfect formations, mind you we both had nearly full stacks. He had arround 8 units of chariots. I advanced forward at walking pace...he moved his chariots. Instead of attacking me, he moved directly behind my cohorts, 2 of them urbans...they all routed instantly before the fight even began.

I was so shocked I had the screen on pause while I looked through the forums on how to stop a mass rout. This is where it gets funny.

Admitting defeat, I pressed the pause button to resume play. Please note, my entire army is routing. now, instead of attacking me with his chariots, he moved his chariots back to his own line, and astonishingly he sounded the retreat. His units were closer to the OOB line.

Results?
None of us lost any troops, I was declared the victor by average victory.

Now, that is odd.