Your finest RTW moments

**Mega Tortas de Bodemloze** · September 17, 2013, 07:17 AM

Post your finest RTW moments here...

Here's mine so far....

Faction: Numidia

Setting: hard/hard

year: 252 BC.

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Tag, your it!.....

**Rijul.J.Ballal** · September 21, 2013, 04:05 AM

Faction: The house of scippi.
Had two units of numidian cavalry,The ones who throw spears,Fighting in Spain trying to outpace the other Roman families,And the Egyptians who had conquered all of nearly all Africa,i was bogged down by Scythia. There were 3 Spanish settlements. They were all mine quite soon enough.

**Mega Tortas de Bodemloze** · September 21, 2013, 06:51 AM

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Wow... you took three settlements with two units of these little buggers? Now that's impressive....

+Rep:

**ImperialAquila** · September 21, 2013, 07:43 AM

The jumping man glitch. Watching him go up and down like he was bungee jumping used to give me a lot of lols.

On a more serious note, one of my finest moments was when I was defending a settlement against the Parthians. I was Rome (Julii) and I successfully defended the city against two stacks using my small garrison (A governor plus 2 archer units). I used my general and the baiting tactic to lure them near the walls to be shot down by my archers. Heroic victory with no losses.

**pacifism** · September 21, 2013, 01:30 PM

Faction: Gaul
Armies: Eporedorix vs. Senate Army
Location: north ford of the Tiber
Result: Clear victory

I beat the Senate army for the first time there with Eporedorix, a barbarian cavalry, two spear warbands, six chosen swordsmen warbands, and ten swordsmen bands. It was a classic real-life battle that resembles the Battle of Ananulzibar quite a bit. I pushed them out of the river, their five generals charged, and pushed me back to the river, we both fought with no reserves, the enemy generals died, I couldn't chase the survivors, and all that. EPIC. I wrote about it in detail somewhere. . . .

**Sar1n** · September 21, 2013, 06:07 PM

I didn't play vanilla much, switched to mods quite early. So these are some moments from mods:

1. Mod-XGM. My army, led by faction heir, sent to pacify Thracians, was attacked and surrounded by three enemy stacks. Vastly outnumbered, I took up defensive position with phalanx and took cavalry to engage enemy on the move. Result...most casualties caused by one unit I've ever seen, and destruction of large portion of Thracian military.

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2. Mod-XC. Pontic campaign. The whole early campaign qualifies, often fighting Argyraspid Phalangitai with just levy troops and kicking Seleucids out of Asia Minor. But most intense part came after that. I sent an army to take Cyrenaica to secure a base from which I could launch an invasion into Egypt. But it turned out that Carthage has interest in that area, and shortly after taking the city, my invasion army, reinforced by some mercenaries, had to fight series of major battles against Carthaginian armies. After a series of five heroic victories in row within few years, Carthage seemed to run out of steam and armies to throw on me.

**Hetman Khmelnytsky** · September 21, 2013, 10:25 PM

My finest RTW moment is forming lines of phalanxes just to win a freaking battle.

**Morshu9001** · September 22, 2013, 01:52 AM

Faction: Armenia
One of my starting towns was under siege by Scythia. Pontus also sent armies in as reinforcements. My reinforcements couldn't arrive in time for them to start the assault.
During the assault, my town was surrounded on 3 sides. Very small ally:enemy strength ratio despite my large army of horse archers and a few light infantry.
Put all of my men in the center except for one cavalry archer unit. Battle started, the harassment unit died, and they rammed into all of my walls. Once they tried to take the plaza, I shot them until most of the Pontus army was routing. 4 enemy generals (one of them a king) dead. Continued the battle to the very end to kill off the routing soldiers.

**Morshu9001** · September 22, 2013, 01:53 AM

Actually… This. I was defending with Armenia. They had nothing long-ranged.

**Cheiftan** · September 22, 2013, 02:09 AM

fighting of a massive roman army of 5000 . I was the greeks in sicliy with 1 spartan hoplites and 1 militia and my heir.....Heroic VICTORY

**ShyPony** · September 23, 2013, 01:19 AM

*quietly hears peapole are talking so she joins also* i..umm..like the.t..t.time i..d..defetead senate..a..as the.s..s.cipii *looks nervously around hoping nopony is angry at her*

**pacifism** · September 25, 2013, 10:02 PM

Definitely one of my proudest moments to defeat the Senate Army.

But can you do it as the Gauls? They are like the ancestors of France.

**Kirila the Kitten** · September 30, 2013, 04:42 AM

My best moment was in XC-mod when I took 4 cities with an unit of Scythed Chariots as Pontus. The modders are now working to nerf this

**Morshu9001** · September 30, 2013, 07:08 PM

I was Armenia holding off Selucia (which I had captured and exterminated to punish those idiots for surprise-breaking the alliance and capturing one of my tiny villages) from the Selucids.

Those rampaging chariots are trying to get out of the gate. Everyone else is trying to get in. Will it blend? Yes.

**ahowl11** · October 01, 2013, 12:45 AM

@Morshu9001
If I were you I would make an AAR

**XDHunterNest** · October 17, 2013, 05:45 AM

Faction: Greek CitiesSetting: Medium/MediumSo I was in Rome with 2 of my family members and my faction leader with a full stacks containing Spartan Hoplites, Armored Hoplites, Archers, Greek Cavalry and 2 Onagers each. One family member had to go back to Capua and retrain his army because he suffered severe losses while taking Rome. I had defeated the Senate, the House of Brutii and the House of Scipii. When suddenly, I press end turn and shabam! My faction leader and one of my family members were surrounded by freaking four stacks of post-Marius legionaries. I did my usual tactics and formations. Hoplites on the front, archers on the back and cavalry on the sides even though we were surrounded. I press end deployment and reinforcements were delayed! I thought I was screwed for sure! Nevertheless, I continued with the battle. I used my cavalry to weaken the legionaries and I succeeded a little bit. I was forced to return my cavalry back to the lines when the Praetorian cavalry started to chase me. All of the Julii armies attacked my phalanxes! Luckily, I suffered tons of casualties but I managed to rout 2 armies. The battle wasn't over yet, though. There were still two remaining armies and my army was heavily beaten up. All hope was lost! But then, THE REINFORCEMENTS CAME! We started to rout units until the battle was done. I suffered 300-400 (more or less) casualties but managed to drive away four armies. It was a miracle indeed! (This was unmodded btw-battle was done a year ago but I still remember it a lil bit)

**Morshu9001** · October 17, 2013, 04:07 PM

I had just 4 hillmen before that Pontic Heavy Cavalry unit charged in. 3 of them turned out to be clones of Chuck Norris.

**Grymloq** · October 17, 2013, 04:38 PM

Playing as the Seleucids, I was defending Seleucia against a combined Parthian-Egyptian siege with just 500 militia hoplites against 3000 men. I lost 17 men and completely crushed the enemy.

**King_of_Spoons64** · October 17, 2013, 04:45 PM

fighting a total of five hunnic stacks in one battle as the eastern roman empire.

**eugenioso** · October 21, 2013, 12:52 PM

its not my greatest moment (ive played since 2000 with Shogun so ive had too many to remember) but my favorite sight in the game is seeing a chariot faction attack through a bridge. nothing beats seeing the egyptian hordes lose half of their army... to water related death because the chariots charge them out of their way.