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  • Battle of Waterloo

    23 41.82%
  • Battle of Borodino

    8 14.55%
  • Battle of Trafalgar

    10 18.18%
  • Battle of Dresden

    3 5.45%
  • Battle of Ligny

    0 0%
  • Battle of Austerlitz

    3 5.45%
  • Battle of the Nile

    0 0%
  • Battle of the Pyramids

    4 7.27%
  • Battle of Arcole

    3 5.45%
  • Battle of Lodi

    1 1.82%
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Thread: Most challenging historical battles?

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    Default Most challenging historical battles?

    Hey there, I have a question for those of you who've tried Napoleon:Total War's historical battles; which ones do you consider to be the most challenging on Hard difficulty?

    I'd rank the Battle of Trafalgar as the most difficult, followed by Waterloo and then Borodino. In regards to Trafalgar, I can usually manage to rout the HMS Victory and several other ships, but then the HMS Dreadnought and Temeraire will destroy the rest of my battered fleet. Borodino is nearly impossible as the Russians' artillery batteries always wrought havoc on my infantry before they can engage the rest of Kutuzov's forces.
    Last edited by Antissa; March 14, 2010 at 06:57 PM.

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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    Waterloo with out a doubt. On VH I believe it may in fact be impossible (only tried it twice, lost both times).
    Last edited by Chyeaaaa111; March 15, 2010 at 03:12 PM.
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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    Austerlitz, you can work around the script of the Waterloo battle.

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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    Quote Originally Posted by Augment View Post
    Austerlitz, you can work around the script of the Waterloo battle.
    How, exactly?

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    For me the #1 is Trafalgar. I really hate this historical battle. Any suggestions for it ?

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    Borodino

    Waterloo is a picnic compared to the horrors of howitzer barrages and not to mention the worst deployment layout of all the battles... virtually impossible on VH.
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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    Quote Originally Posted by {II}Sovereign View Post
    Borodino

    Waterloo is a picnic compared to the horrors of howitzer barrages and not to mention the worst deployment layout of all the battles... virtually impossible on VH.
    Bah Borodino is one of the easiest, you can avoid the arty almost completely and just capture the town on the left flank then flank right with cav to take out the arty.... i beat it on my first try and even if you play it on VH this tactic will still work just as well

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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    I did exactly the same what Bdizzle356 did on Borodino.

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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    Waterloo, I sended everything I had at hougomont and failed miserably

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    Waterloo.
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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    how the hell did anyone vote for austerlitz or arcole?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Shader View Post
    For me the #1 is Trafalgar. I really hate this historical battle.
    Yeah, I really hate naval battles. Especially this one.







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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    A good stratagey on Waterloo is to attack the Allies right flank splitting them off from the Prussians, this stratagey worked for me. It worked for me the first time I tried it.
    Last edited by Steve Holt; March 15, 2010 at 04:42 AM.

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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    Trafalgar for me by far. In land battles you got more choices and flexibility, sure waterloo seemed really hard the first times i tried it, but you can easily destroy the Prussians fast and then focus on Wellington's army with little casulties from the Prussians.
    Trafalgar on the other hand seems to me to be damn near impossible on Hard, had about 6 tries and i get shot to pieces every time, anyone got any good advise for this onslaught ?.

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    i voted waterloo.. i just can't win this battle
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    Arcole. Won after 3rd attempt. Waterloo was easy for me. All on Hard.

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    lodi ....

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    hate to admit it but arcole was darn hard on hard difficulty when they crushed u on the bridge from both sides. A lot harder to Waterloo because that the only way to go while on waterloo u have so many tatical opions

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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    Quote Originally Posted by Shader View Post
    For me the #1 is Trafalgar. I really hate this historical battle. Any suggestions for it ?
    Damn, you do have a point there come to think of it this is the hardest of the battles..

    The sad thing is it wouldn't even be so difficult if you had able allies but the spanish fold so quickly, they don't even make an effort to consolidate there forces to attempt a joint attack they just scatter..
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    Default Re: Most challenging historical battles?

    I say Trafalgar is the hardest. I can't even win this battle on normal difficulty... The French fleet is simply too few and too weak without Spanish support. The annoying thing is that the Spanish rout almost immediately after only a few shots...

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