AAR Challenge Discussion Thread

[The Wandering Scholar]

Another glorious update Ramses. You took a real beating at the hands of the mongols. I can't wait for your revenge.

ps I was only joking about two hours which I think you know.

[Ramses II CP]

When I started that last battle I actually had a little bit of a hope that those mercenary spearmen could hold the Mongols. They were relatively expensive, their defensive stats were better than my usual spearmen, and I hadn't used them before. Obviously I was very, very wrong. Fortunately I had decided not to put any of my good quality archers in that stack.

Oh, and that all javelins battle. Ugh. I spread them out very wide and kept them from routing long enough for them to heavily pincushion the two Mongol generals, they just couldn't friggin' kill one. Not even one!

Tier 1 troops just can't even scratch the Mongol elite, which is the way it should be IMHO.

[The Wandering Scholar]

Part 6 is up. Is that the end Ramses?

[Ramses II CP]

That's the end. I didn't slap a big 'The End' tag down, but I hit the victory condition and was ready to try a different faction.

Any comments are welcome.

[Quirinus]

My favourite was that battle with the all-elephant army. That was cool, and fitting, since the title of your AAR is "Send In The Elephants".

What were your victory conditions? Destroy the Mongols?

[Ramses II CP]

In Broken Crescent the victory condition is 60 provinces. I was at 52 or 54 when I finished the Mongols, so I just smacked around the Seljuks and Ghorids for the last few, ignoring my reputation hit. After those unholy Mongol stacks even the usually fairly tough BC armies weren't much trouble.

I think my favorite battle was actually the siege battle. I went into that expecting to win, expecting the buggy AI to handicap it's vastly superior soldiers so they wouldn't even have a chance. When they crushed me it was awesome, really like a whole new way of playing TW. I could lose now, and not just throw away field battles with militia, but cities I meant to hold.

Fun stuff. If you haven't tried Broken Crescent, it's a spectacular mod. Highly enjoyable.

[The Wandering Scholar]

I might give it ago then :P. My aar has been put into motion btw.