The "What happened there?" game.

[johnhughthom]

John is such a tease!

I bet you say that to all the boys.

[vartan]

I bet you say that to all the boys.

LOL No comment!

[Noble Wrath]

Speaking of friendly fire and Karthadastim, my guess is that they besieged one of the Romani cities, guarded by a FM with his bodyguards, and the Karthadastim had a unit of elephants in their army. Then the elephants, being under fire by the towers, run amok and there's your friendly fire! The rest is already mentioned by previous posters.

[johnhughthom]

Yay we have a wiener! Noble Wrath with his fourth post in sixteen months wins.

I had my Consular army in a nice position in central Sicily awaiting the First Punic War deciding big Sicilian battle that always seems to happen. Went slightly differently this time (probably because I hadn't left Syracuse until after the war as I usual do) they marched past my army and assaulted Syracuse with their elephants. Syracuse, a city with huge stone walls. The army split into two and assaulted a diffferent gate, the spearmen lined up behind the elephants within range of the towers. One by one the elephants walked up to the gates and were killed by boling oil. Eventually they went berserk, back through the ranks of the spearmen, hence the "friendly trampling" The elephants went for a little dance off the map, taking ages to actually rout, letting my towers kill even more of the spearmen.

I think the reason for the average victory was the fact my army didn't actually kill anyone...

[vartan]

How long did the battle take altogether?

[johnhughthom]

I had it on triple speed, probably ten minutes.

[Noble Wrath]

:-) Well, as I stated before I would have never guessed it, if it wasn't for the suggestions by the other members. Sort of "a dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants"
(btw while writing this post I found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standin...ders_of_giants the history of this phrase. EB can be educative in many dubious ways...)
Does this mean I have the right to post my own riddle? Well, sorry to ruin it guys, but I can no longer play the game. In fact I deleted my Windows installation and put Linux on my pc one month ago for the specific reason that I played wayyyy too many hours EB! Aside from educative EB can be harmfull for the weak.. Cheers guys!

[SlickNicaG69]

I only hope the EB 2 engine makes the AI smarter in this respect... I mean such drastic outcomes makes me feel that the game was originally called "Rome: For Dummies," but was changed for economic purposes...

[Ibrahim]

Yay we have a wiener!

wth?

a wiener?

[Mulceber]

What did the Carthaginians have in mind when they tried to execute this plan? (Note that this was EB1.0)

Break out of the city so they can escape from your stack? -M

[Andronikos]

I think the reason for the average victory was the fact my army didn't actually kill anyone...

That could be the reason. It often happens to me when I attack much smaller army and they just withdraw and I don't kill any enemy soldier because I can't catch them, I get Close victory. When I kill at least one enemy soldier I get Clear victory.

[antisocialmunky]

I've seen the ram inside the city before. 0_0 just once.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Oh, isn't it the odd Kyrene bug?

Nope this is Sala (I think) the one in Mauretania Massaesylli (most east one of the Mauretanaian cities).

But the Kyrene bug was that your siege weapons ended at the faraway cornor of the map in a wood right?

I've seen the ram inside the city before. 0_0 just once.

Probably me again, I have posted this a lot earlier but not many people did see it.

~Fluvius