The " 0h-$#!% " moment

[tigger_on_vrb]

As the English I was fighting a reasonably easy battle. I was well outnumbered, but the enemy was spilt into 3 armies and the AI sent them in 1 at a time rather than a coordinated attack against my defensive position which was surrounded with stakes. My army was also led by a legendary general with every positive virtue and retinue you could imagine.

I beat the first wave and my general went off to collect some routers and then returned to meet the second wave. Of course being wise I made sure my general was WALKING towrads my stake defences. I then set about reorganising my yeoman archers and DFK to meet the second wave. Having given them move orders I automatically hit ctrl+A and then run to get them in position quickly.... just as my general hit the line of stakes

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[Galain_Ironhide]

another instance that has made me go 'oh %@#$%'.

In the past I was profound for forgetting to enable Guard mode / disable skirmish mode for my archers. Then of course instead of firing volleys of arrows at close quarters in to the enemy, they would be instead fleeing for their lives making the distance between them and the battle bigger. Or alternatively they would be chasing after the first wave of routers only to get chewed up by the next wave of enemy troops because they were well past the protection line of my spears and swords. I can still hear myself saying "DISABLE SKIRMISH MODE GALAIN! DAMN IT! "

I've learnt now though.

[PBI]

I have had many similar "Oh $#%&#%" moments using crossbows or gunners, thinking that skirmish mode would be sufficient to get them out of the way of the charging enemy cavalry. Of course, the poor fools instead insist on standing there reloading while the cavalry mow them down. I then have to mess up my nice infantry line getting them to rush forwards to try and save my archers.

Also, one of my men had his very own "oh $#%*&" moment the other day; as a unit of DFKs was mercilessly carving its way through my unit of scots pike militia, I heard, above the din of battle, a very clear cry of "bloody hell" in a thick Glaswegian accent. It made me smile.

[Martok]

Also, one of my men had his very own "oh $#%*&" moment the other day; as a unit of DFKs was mercily carving its way through my unit of scots pike militia, I heard, above the din of battle, a very clear cry of "bloody hell" in a thick Glaswegian accent. It made me smile.

I didn't realize individual soldiers said anything intelligible during battle. (Of course, I've not played the game that much.)

Still funny either way, though.

[Pater Familias]

As Milan, I sailed in a middling stack of cavalry, including a general, as reinforcements, landing right behind the Sicilians besieging my castle with its handful of missile troops and not much else (one light cavalry unit, two peasant archers and the dregs of two mercenary crossbows who had taken the castle in the first place).
The Sicilians had brought along a general of their own, one spear unit, one militia, one archer and a 2/3rds stack of mixed cavalry.
I was a little surprised when on the AI's turn, Sicily attacked anyway, because I knew I would wipe them out between the archers on the walls and the cavalry reinforcements disrupting them from the rear. Only when the battle screen came up, my reinforcements didn't register ... obscured by the little status tag under the castle on the campaign map, I had landed not one but TWO spaces behind the Sicilians ... OH @$%*^&
I lost the battle (only able to burn one of two rams at which point it was their cavalry v. my archers), then had an all-cavalry stack of my own outside the walls with a two-turn sail between me and the mainland ...

[The New Che Guevara]

I haven't played Medieval II enough yet to get these situations, however, I have done with Rome.

Sorry for those that don't know Rome well enough. I was playing as Julii and the Egyptians started on me. Being a noob I only put my fleets on like two or three ships. Set them with full armies. The egyptians had superior naval force. My campaign autosaved before my worst turn ever. The egyptians met my small fleets and then every naval battle during that turn was a loss resulting in my armies meeting the bottom of the mediterranean and that campaign being terminated.

[TheLastPrivate]

I was playing as turks and mopping up rest of byzantines in the valkans,
and found a ever-so popular army of trebuchets and catapults.

To minimize losses i take my general and a few fast cavalry troops to deal with the oddball of an army.

The battle starts and I march towards the line of siege weaponry, the first shot by their trebuchet lands on my 10 star faction leader, frying him into a crisp mass of armor and burnt flesh...

[Michlos]

I beat the first wave and my general went off to collect some routers and then returned to meet the second wave. Of course being wise I made sure my general was WALKING towrads my stake defences. I then set about reorganising my yeoman archers and DFK to meet the second wave. Having given them move orders I automatically hit ctrl+A and then run to get them in position quickly.... just as my general hit the line of stakes

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Aww man.. this was good enough to make me register just to comment about it. Bet the archers were wondering what the heck your General was thinking...

[gardibolt]

Had one in the France game I'm playing. I called a crusade on Acre, and figured I would be well set with the four stacks I was sending there. Imagine my surprise when I land and find 30 full stacks of Mongols waiting for me in the Holy Land. Kind of wish I'd let the HRE get there first....

[Quickening]

I had a really annoying moment recently. I was playing as England in the Grand Campaign and the Scots were putting up a surprisingly good fight which made things difficult for me since I was already stretched fighting France and Denmark.
Anyway I always wean my generals to be ultra chivalrous and I had my most honorable general in the North fighting the Scots. He had just smashed a full stack and the battle was won, all that remained was to break a few scattered units when suddenly I am informed of his death A unit of five crossbowmen had been firing wildly into the air from the side of a hill and by some miracle one of these wayward bolts had picked out my general from amongst his full unit and killed him instantly

The loss of my favourite guy in such a rubbish way crushed my heart and I lost interest in the campaign. Gutted.

[Scribble]

Playing as France in SS6 and had a young lad come of age with some great administrative traits. I had big plans for him as the new governor of Paris. Alas he did'nt. After finishing university he ran off with some Spanish floozie . he then refused to die and cost me the lives of my 5 best assasains. Then the Spanish declare war on me because of all the failed assination attempts. And finally just to polish things off 2 Inquisitors turn up and start burning my family members and I could'nt do anything about it as I'd had'nt made any new assasains. Ah well, if it was easy I'd have stopped playing ages ago.

[seireikhaan]

Stainless steel 6.1. Playing as Lithuania in my first attempt with the mod. Needless to say, I didn't quite realize that a certain faction was going to emerge right on my doorstep when I had 80% of my forces over in Scandinavia fighting the danes and norse.

[SultanWilliam]

In kingdoms i was playing as novgorod, and I was going very good. I was killing the teutonic order, had already defeated Norway and took most castles of Denmark. I had an alliance with Lithuania and the Mongols.

Suddenly came denmark with an enormous army at one of my cities in the middle of my empire! Within 3 turns there was a big gap in my empire, and just when I wanted to reinforce the regions surrounding it, Lithuania and the Mongols declared war and began attacking me at the south!



everything is getting better now. Lithuania occupied 2 cities, but those were soon reoccupied. They are dying now XD. The Mongols couldn't get a single citie, with thanks to my towers and oil (oil destroyed all the rams, and because theyve mostly horse archers i could cut them down). Mongols are still strong though and i still lose some open battles against them. I kinda gave up Norway/Denmark.

everything will be allright soon

p.s.
when i defeated Norway, i couldnt play them in the grand campaign. isnt it possible to become a faction when you destroy them?