Random RTW crazyness

[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".

[The Wandering Scholar]

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

Ironic that balls ended the life of an adultering Roman

[Spartan198]

That's a good one,too.

[Hound of Ulster]

wow, this thread just crashed and burned.

Whenever I use Parthia I always have fun. Every victory is heroic victory because I send all-cav formations against all-infantry Seluekid units...
I cut through them like a hot knife through butter.

My most bizarre RTW moment was when my general (using the Britions) got clocked in the head by...a severed head thorwn by one of my head hurlers

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

It always gets annoying when friendly fire hit your own generals, although it's worse when it collides with him after the battle is theoretically over.

My General's Bodyguard had five men left in it, and was chasing after the remains of a few Roman Hastati while my other units dealt with the two still surviving units which were attacking my frontline.

This was fine, but, in the woods nearby I had placed some skirmishers which I had totally forgotton about. Worst of all, they had fire at will turned on, so, when the enemy Hastatii wondered past, they fired two vollies at them. The General lost two more bodyguard units, and the second volly hit and killed the General himself.

This was fortunately a useless two star general in him mid fifties, so he wasn't really of too much use to me. Also I had about fifty other Generals still fighting on my behalf, so I didn't really have too much to worry about.