The 'How did you fare in your last battle' thread

[peterbcfcfan]

This thread is to discuss what tactic you used in your last battle and how you got on. Whether it is Naval or Land, or you got thumped or trounced them post your tactic and result.

[sdomi_cabsav@Hotmail]

Me as ottomans versus a massive Persian force. Basically had about 6 units of Isarily's (i think) which are a pretty descent line infantry unit, about 3 units of Janissary musketeers and about 20, 24 lber howitzers and 8 19 lber( i think) . Basically set all my units up in 1 big square with the howitzers in the middle. The enemy just got obliterated by my howitzers right away. The fire was so intense that what little force that made it to my square was immedietly broken and routed.

[boerekovic]

Me as ottomans versus a massive Persian force. Basically had about 6 units of Isarily's (i think) which are a pretty descent line infantry unit, about 3 units of Janissary musketeers and about 20, 24 lber howitzers and 8 19 lber( i think) . Basically set all my units up in 1 big square with the howitzers in the middle. The enemy just got obliterated by my howitzers right away. The fire was so intense that what little force that made it to my square was immedietly broken and routed.

Holy crap, your an artilleryman.

My last battle was taking Siebenbürgen from the Austrians, 3-4 units of line infantry and Musket armed Peasants plus general, i did use my Janissary musketeers superior Range to shoot them to pieces.

[Tiroth]

My last battle was with the Iroquois in the battle for their final region. I was British. Used the army of veterans that had destroyed both the Hurons and the Cherokees which consisted of mostly line infantry (most of which with 2 veterancy chevrons), a couple of dragoons and 3 howitzers.

Noticed the enemy had at least 5 units of cavalry, so as I was defending, I set up stakes around my lines. Set up the Howitzers behind the lines, protected on all flanks by grenadiers and the general. The cav were slaughtered by the howitzers as the enemy line advanced, the enemy general was killed by a stray carcass shot, but the iroquois had 4 bowmen who proceeded to wreck my front line out of range, and then they charged most of their infantry at my centre, with a couple trying to go around the flanks (dragoons dealt with them).

Thought I had it in the bag. But no, bowmen (i assume it's them) apparently cause my troops to be "afraid" (even vets who'd fought all this before countless times), the centre 4-5 units broke simultaneously in a chain rout, even with grenadier support and flanking from my free units who had not been engaged by the mass of enemies at the centre. Enemies broke through, shattered the howitzers, and I had to respond by sending most of my reserve units in/those who weren't engaged (by the way, the enemies were mostly "native militia" and warrior society).

Luckily the newly supporting units managed to finally break and cause mass retreat in the centre enemy army, but then mostly fled themselves (scared by the bowmen apparently), leaving only dragoons and a handful of men of the line to tie up the remaining bowmen. Just managed to survive the fight, with my general being the single remaining unit against a unit of medicine men who had almost beaten and routed the generals unit.

Lost 4 or 5 good vet units in that fight... but the Iroquois as a nation were destroyed. Thank GOD. No more natives to fight with their insane melee ability. This was all on Hard by the way, Very Hard natives proved to be far too frustrating with these tactics so I turned it down in the menu.

[AngryAnt]

My last battle was a few days ago (RL sucks). So can't really remember most of it.

Naval battle, against the French (as the British). We had about the same amount of ships, although i had a few bomb ketchs.

The battle was going in my favour (lining up my ships and waiting till their were in range, then ordering one side to open fire, hard to port and rinse and repeat). Untill they got a lucky hit and my admirals ship surrendered. The rest started to scatter, being sunk and boarded.

When i was down to two ships (one bomb and one tiny ship), i'd managed to sink most of theirs. But their admiral's ship was left... Basically, involed sailing around trying to avoid it, while my bomb ketch was trying to hit it...
In what turned out to be an amazing stroke of luck, the AI crashed into a surrendered ship, crippling most of it, and after thanking god i was able to win the fight.

My admiral has since been stripped of his rank, and now cleans the port.

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

i had my first Heroic Vicyory.

im playing as the Americans and i was defending against the British, who marched their proud redcoats into my canons and switching to Canister i filleted them, very impressive to watch them being cut down, and very satisfieing

[Admiral-Thrawn]

The Prussian-Franco War. 1712-1735. Prussian View.

The war itself started innocently enough, a dispute over the land's of Rhineland. The industry there was truly worth a war, as it's previous occupant's had constructed numerous industrial establishment's, along with two Star Fort's. Such a irresistable target, I had to sieze it. Seem's France had caught on about this little treasure and had swiftly siezed the Northern Fort. I quickly occupied the Southern Fort, hoping to challenge them whilst the settlement was held by Rebel's. Eventually the battle was lost, but I managed to strike the newly-French region of Flander's.

Eight unit's of Prussian Guard's, coupled by three unit's of Uhlan's were mustered to the cause, quickly moving into position. I also brought up my General, along with two unit's of Horse drawn Artillery. We quickly encountered a French army and so my first real challenge since the Prussian-Austrian war. The enemy had twelve unit's of Line Infantry, coupled with some Regiment's of the Horse and Fixed Cannon's. My formation seemed something alike this--

/\<Three Uhlan's. \____/ <Five Guard's. --------- < Three Guard's.

My general was at the midst of the Formation to the right, with the Guard's. assigned both Artillery unit's to the main body of Guard's and advanced at walking speed into hell's embrace. The three guard's moved round to strike at the flank, with the Lancer Cavalry striking hard into the enemies rear. I left their left flank unopposed, trying to tempt them into a suicidal death-rush at my cannon's. I succeeded in goading them into attacking my "undefended" artillery sight. They saw my plan too late. Their unit of Line Infantry charged into the range of a Canister Shot. The rest of the story is best left unsaid.

Meanwhilst my Uhlan's were moving back and forth, smashing into the enemies formation with relentless fury. My flanking force succeeded in it's task, though not in the way I had planned. They broke of a third of their main force to engage them, leaving their rear open to my main force. I quickly took advantage of the moment, re-directing a unit of Uhlan's into the breach. The enemy was quick to realize their folly, but alas not quick enough. The gaping hole was so simple a target, that even my amaetur Uhlan's could handle it. After striking home, I brought around a unit of Guard's to strike the weak spot.

The battle was a success, but a hollow one. The casualties forced me to pull back, which eventually led to the loss of Rhineland. Seeing that my goal was lost, I offered a surrender to France, which he reluctantly accepted. The surrender cost me dearly, forcing me to give up many province's, including but not limited to;
*Saxony
*Hannover
*Greece (Secured By Diplomacy)

A hollow victory. Amazing how the greatest of victories turn out to be so hollow. Well that's not entirely true. It was an error on my part really. By moving forward, I left the way into my territory open, which allowed France to decimate some of my lesser armies. If I had but thought before advancing, perhap's now Paris would be under a Prussian flag. But it's to late for that, it's to late for alot of thing's. Still, many rich land's lie to the East as Russia grow's weak and the Ottoman's complacent. Perhap's it is there that Prussia will find it's true destiny. Perhap's then I can show the French who truly rules Europe. But that is a day far off, a day that may never come. Even now the Guard's of Prussia ready themselves with new purpose, as they march . . . march . . . into death's cold embrace.

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

i had something weird happen to me, when i had the english down to one unit, i marched 3 units of line infantry towards them, and they formed square, even though i wasnt feilding any cavalry except my general, who was safely behing my entrenched infantry and cannons.

has any one else seen the AI doing daft things like this?

needless to say i halted my infantry and let my artillary have some fun

[Killian]

i had something weird happen to me, when i had the english down to one unit, i marched 3 units of line infantry towards them, and they formed square, even though i wasnt feilding any cavalry except my general, who was safely behing my entrenched infantry and cannons.

has any one else seen the AI doing daft things like this?

needless to say i halted my infantry and let my artillary have some fun

yeah i have seen this actually same thing happened to me...but em i dont know what it is with my artillery...it never hits the target so i got fed up and just bayonet charged

[DarkMagi]

Well... my last land battle was a battle against Saxony wich was pretty cool.

Got my artillary (2 units) in the front. 2 big and extended lines of infantary.
1 unit of pikeman. Cavalary in the flanks and General's in the back.

Went pretty well. My cannons did the work, when they attacked I responded pretty well to everything (flanking and stuff) and won pretty easily 1300+ soldiers agains 1500+ and they only killed 200 of my man, while I killed them a lot, lot more (pics to come later at night).

my naval battle was pretty cool. Me=BIIIIG ships against Marrocco=smaaaall ships.
There was a bug, my ship coudn't move and started "detiorating" :S and lost 1 ship lol. no worries.

#sorry for bad english, pics are comming later

[snuggans]

British Army vs Barbary Pirates
1700 vs 1700

Guard in the middle
Grenadiers commit to melee
Howitzers rain down shells
Life guard mop up

the end.

[kittens]

I decided to try something different...
I set the game up using the 2.5 method in the modification threads to add more men to the stacks. My line infantry had 400 men per box! But yes.. it made my enemy have huge numbers as well.

I started off as Prussia.
I emediatly gave East Prussia away to Poland.
I built up my tech tree and money while being diplomatic to all my surrounding lands.
Once i thought i was 'bad ass' enough and had Fire By Rank and 12lb guns i built some brigs and sailed my nice size army i just made over the ocean and thought i would invade "Villa de Bexar" Texas and work my way into north america from the south.
After all... its only one little injun town with measly hethen indians right?
How tough could it be? I had cannons and rifles, and they only had one province and are a 'minor' nation.




I drop off my men on the shore, and no sooner than they get off the boat i have an entire FULL freaking stack of Pueblo Nation indians jump me hard. Yes.. thousands of indians..
Well. I managed to win... barely. It was a narrow victory and i lost most of my men. I laughed and thought i was home free. That had to be all they had.. ill simply go take over their defenseless little teepee town now with my remaining force.

Next turn another fresh FULL stack of Peublo Nation Indians jump me again! It was POORING rain which did not help my muskets.
This time it was custers last stand. Literaly. Half their troop types were mounted. I put my men into little squares hopeing to fend off what i could. They surrounded me, had archers everywhere pounding arrows into my men, and their horses quickly dispatched my leftover cannon behind me. They threw me such a beating that as my last 5 linemen began to run for their life all i could see on my screen were indians like blades of grass in a field. Large full packs of them coming at me with hatchets.
And then from every direction.... so it ended.

Sighs... so much for that simple easy texas invasion.

My next plan... many ships filed with many many men.. and see how i fair. Even then i think its going to be really ugly.. but now its about revenge.

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I guess it's too soon to say "Don't mess with Texas", eh?

I just had a great fight as Britain against the marathas confederacy. They had about 1800 attacking my army of about 1200. They had two artillery 12lbers, a sizeable force of cavalry, and the same amount of line infantry as me. I had 4 12lbers with 3 chevrons, a handful of cavalry and mostly line infantry. This is my veteran army though... these guys saw fighting in america and have been conquering India for years, so I was confident.

The battle begins with my artillery knocking their artillery before I know what's going on. After that, it's cake. They march and get slaughtered by my canister and well trained line infantry. Their cavalry mounts a desperate charge at my artillery and gets a ton of canister in their face, and they break and rout. After a little mopping, the field is mine.

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

i thought the canister option had a shorter range for artillary, but when my 12 pounders are out of range with normal shot, the AI is able to scour my lines with cannister?

that is not fair, the AI cheats

[Kewpur]

about 1000 russian line infantry (me) against the last crimean khanate army in their base. They had about 1200 men. I killed all of them and they killed like 200 of my guys.

[Ataraxie]

Naval battle - "West Indies Fleet" vs Pirate Fleet #57

Order of battle "West Indies Fleet"
Second Rate - "HMS Kandi" - Admiral Oliver
Second Rate - "HMS Willenhall"
Second Rate - "HMS Curzon"
74 Guns - "HMS Warspite"
74 Guns - "HMS Spitfire"
74 Guns - "HMS Vulcan"

Escorted *heh* by a screen of six frigates;
Raven, Generaux [french capture], Vanguard, Fox and Kestrel.

Order of battle "Pirate Fleet #57"
Galleon - "Queen Anne's Revenge" Pirate-Admiral Josias somethingsomething
Galleon
Galleon
Galleon
Xebec
Xebec
Fluyte [damanged, captured from me, I had it off the dutch] "Wilhelm"


Move off to engage, regular old-fashioned line-of-battle, with my frigates hiding to the off-side of my heavier ships, ready to nip around and rake the pirates. As the lead ships start to fire, a funny thing happens - my flagship sinks almost immediately, exposing two of the frigates to long-range fire. One of them promptly blows up, meaning the rest of the fleet needs to scatter out of the way of the burning frigates.

The frigates are then sent off the field in disgrace, the four left limping that is. The remaining battleships engage the enemy, the 74's sinking the Fluyte and the Xebecs, but loosing one of their own to the Galleons' off-side broadsides as they move to help the Second Rates. With "Kandi" already sunk, the second rates are naturally in trouble, though they are giving a good account of themselves. "Curzon" is dismasted, and starts to do that semi-surrender thing where it is useless. "Willenhall" sinks a galleon, but is being pounded into surrender by the remaining three.

The arrival of the two 74's, compartively fresh, momentarily tips the balance - another Galleon is sunk, leaving two to face two Second Rate ships and two 74's. Then of course, the gods take note, and promptly cause both of the second rates to sink. My 74's then loose heart, one surrenders, and the other tries to leg it, but is dismasted and sunk in the ensuing fight.

So, all in all, AAR;

Second Rate - "HMS Kandi" - Admiral Oliver (sunk)
Second Rate - "HMS Willenhall" (sunk)
Second Rate - "HMS Curzon" (sunk)
74 Guns - "HMS Warspite" (surrendered)
74 Guns - "HMS Spitfire" (sunk)
74 Guns - "HMS Vulcan" (sunk)
Frigate - "Raven" (exploded)
Frigate - "Fox" (burned, sunk)

Frigates Generaux, Vanguard, Kestrel - escape back to Jamaica.

Pirates;

Galleon - "Queen Anne's Revenge"
Galleon
Galleon (sunk)
Galleon (sunk)
Xebec (exploded)
Xebec (burned, sunk)
Fluyte - "Wilhelm" (sunk)

Result - Close Defeat.

[RoutingUrban]

Swedish vs. French
me


I had 4 24pd. howitzers. 2 lanced calvary 2 heavy. I hate 8 line ifn. and 4 sharpshooters/light.

He splits his army up with most of his line on my left. Most of my art and calv is on my left also. He comes up. I totally destroy his first line. His second line comes in and kills my calvary. I reinforce my left with 1 light and 3 line.

My right is under heavy calvary and a few units of line attack. I send most men that way and crush it. He fights a withdrawing battle that is quite effective. My left side is finally defeated but only narrowly.
He has a unit of light and a unit of line left.

I have 3 light and 3 line. I surround him in a small pocket of woods and fire untill he melee charges. I win.

[cdsigmon]

My Austrian army was going up against the last stronghold of Spain at Gibraltar. I was laying siege to the city which had a full stack. On the outskirts of the city they had two nearly full stacks. Each of their armies were comprised of line infantry, irregulars and a lot of cavalry.

My forces were 4 units of 12-lbers, experienced line infantry and my general. In total I had 3128 men going against just a hair under 4000 Spanish.

The battle started off quite well for my forces as I was able to take care of the initial attack with reasonable casualties. At this point I was feeling pretty good about this engagement as I started to re-organize my line to take on the reinforcements that would soon be hitting my right flank.

Well, the reinforcements ended up arriving sooner than I thought they would. They were able to ram into my line that was reorganizing with 6+ units of cavalry. Utter chaos ensued as I eventually pushed them back. By this time their line infantry and irregulars had arrived and started laying down fire. After finally getting my line re-organized I realized the extent of my casualties. I had taken massive losses and 2 units had ended up routing.

They continually did hit and run attacks on my right flank with their remaining cavalry while their line infantry fired upon them, not caring if they did bring down a few of their own.

It eventually came down to two units of badly depleted line infantry and my four units of artillery against 2 units of irregulars who had barely seen action. A barrage from my cannons and the ensuing bayonet charge was enough to break them.

When it was all said and done nearly 6000 lay dead or dying on the field of battle. It was the very definition of a Pyrrhic Victory.

The remains of the Spanish army fell back behind the gates of the city of Gibraltar which would fall to Austrian forces within the year after being reinforced from another army fresh off their resounding victory in Lisbon.

[pulpnonfiction]

BEST BATTLE EVEEEEEEEEEEEEER:

my last battle was me as prussia going against poland.

i had like 8 line infantry, 2 militia, 1 pike, 2 cavalry, general, 2 cannons. i was up against a much smaller, but similar force.

i spent a few minutes making my army look all pretty in a good formation as i got ready to decimate my opponent.

he was just standing out in pretty open field, so i held down the ',' key (makes your guys start marching forward, 1 step at a time) and proceded toward my opponent. i decided to run my men the last 15 yards or so. everything was going fine until just about the time i got into firing range.

a small pile of hay got in the way of the right side of my infantry line. when my guys collided with it, it sent my whole grouped army marching all over the place in retarded directions, some running away, some running right toward the enemy (i was still holding the march forward key until this happened).

the enemy got off a shot on some of my guys as they ran around in circles like retards at the chucky cheese.

i quickly tried to reposition them, but the hay pile and a small fence on the other side of my line raped the pathfinding and my guys all formed a giant column facing the complete wrong way.

at this point i had taken some losses and still hadnt gotten a shot off.

my enemy sent his pikemen attacking one of my infantry squads. i clicked the unit he attacked, and told them to equip plug bayonets. the only problem is i must not have clicked enough times because it failed to select the single unit like i was trying to select. instead, it told ALL my infantry to equip their plug bayonets. so now i had no ranged infantry left as apparently it is impossible to remove plug bayonets.

next, i told all my bayonet men to attack everything he had in a full out charge, hoping to win the melee fight with my superior numbers.

i sent my cavalry squads around getting ready to strike from behind. one of the cavalry squads made it, but the other ran into that small wooden fence. 3 of them died trying to make it over the fence.

next i ran my cavalry in from behind and routed the enemy. i took a load of losses in a battle that i should have won like 1000 to 80.

this game is fun, but seriously the dumb AI and pathfinding really make me dislike it sometimes.

oh well, at least i got to look at that awesome pile of hay. who needs path finding when i have hay.

[Jayzilla]

I just did my first naval MP battle. the board looked like this:

V V V V V V V v(his third rates, blue was a fifth rate)
_____________

<---- (wind)
_____________
. ^ . ^ ^ ^ (my third rates, red were second rates)
. ^
. ^

I hit him on the center, then pulled all my ships windward along his line. His three ships in teh rear played catch up while I captured the two of his in teh front.

His angry tailing ships routed my right-most third rate off the board, but I could still double up pretty well. A win for me.

One question, in naval MP battles, does it not count for rating if i only make his ships surrender?