Headhunting

[Dulce_et_Decorum_Est]

There's nothing quite so satisfying in battle as seeing the enemy commander's smug expression frozen as his head becomes disconnected from his greasy neck. It's bad for enemy morale, which means it's good for you. Oh, and there's nothing bad at all about pruning the enemy's family tree a bit.

Personally, I like early campagin battles where there aren't many strong walls and in places where there's an abundance of phalanx units (playing vanilla 1.5 mostly). Why is this?

Well, if you let the enemy bust through the stockades, they have no choice but to advance up through your streets. If you've got guys smart enough to point all of their spears in the same direction, you can make some pretty gristly kill zones. Inevitably, the enemy starts to run after they realize that a 1:10 kill ratio ain't gonna work when they only outnumber you 3:1, and the enemy general charges, thus turning himself into a kabob.

I've heard of ballistae, heavy cavalry, elephants, and even falxmen all being used to retire the opposing leader from battle. So everyone, what's your favorite way to kill off the enemy general?

[teh_executioner]

flaming onager.

[Mrtickles]

Most useful: Cavalry moshpit

Most hilarious: Arrow or onager shot

Will only happen once so savor it: Enemy rampaging elephant tramples him

[Hader]

Will only happen once so savor it: Enemy rampaging elephant tramples him

No, there is something better and more rare......an elephant dies and falls on the general while he is standing still....

I did that to the enemy King once, completely unexpected, but I didnt complain

[Severous]

Driving in your chariot with Roman general(s) is persuit. Swerve your chariot from side to side. So it slows and the persuing general catches up with your chariots spiked wheels. Dead general(s)

[Il Duce]

I once held off 350 gauls invading my town with 160 town watch. I guess I just got extremely lucky

[Hader]

I literally nearly killed off and entire Gallic full stack with the faction heir leading it with only two units. They were not the best units either, they were only unexperienced Arcani and Princepes. It was on a bridge, the Gauls charged right in, and I did lose the battle because of overwhelming numbers, but I took out a good 1/5 of their stack....but sadly their general was smart enough not to go on the bridge as well...darn...

[teh_executioner]

death from a sap point breaking apart a wall. getting smooshed in rubble.

[Mrtickles]

Just out of curiosity is it possible for a general to die in the initial "charge" impact casualties you get?

[Hader]

Just out of curiosity is it possible for a general to die in the initial "charge" impact casualties you get?

Yes, it is possible. I have had it happen to my factions leader a couple times before, and countless times I have seen it happen to others. Yeah, what a heroic death......

[Titan Of Gaul]

No one has mentioned the funniest way, I think it can only happen on BI but in a bridge battle, charge through with some clibs and the general loses his footing, falls in the river and is pulled down by the weight of his armour.

Another good one is if your cavalry are retreating through YOUR OWN phalanx the general can be....well dismounted (you can work out what happens)

[RedFox]

Let me think, the best ways to kill your own general...

1) Charge! at routing units when your general is sitting behind your own phalanx deployed on a hill. - Friendly Sarissa then?

2) Chasing routing enemies again with your cavalry, while your beloved cretan archers try to have some target practice at it's own general. Sad but true.

3) Chasing amoking elephants with your general - gencake.


As to killing enemy generals, I preffer any sort of phalangites, always try to count how many saltos the general does when he dies off the sarissas.
If that fails and he flees, there's still hope - the cretans do love to kill generals, no matter the faction.
Beyond those, there's really no better way to kill a general (I mean a more hilarious one), rest is just chop chop with your trusty cavalry when you outflank the general that was a few moments ago trying to outflank you.

Although, if anyone succeeds in killing a general with incendiary pigs or dogs, it would definently go into history as the lamest death in a battle, ever.
(not that dying in your own sarissas would be any lamer...)

[Dulce_et_Decorum_Est]

Just out of curiosity is it possible for a general to die in the initial "charge" impact casualties you get?

Yes, it's quite possible, but since the general usually has more hit points it tends not to happen.

Keep 'um coming folks, there are some good ones in here!

Now, everyone knows that watching a general catch on fire is funny.

But it's not when they catch on friendly fire.

[Sub-Zero120]

I killed the pope about a dozen times in m2tw playing as sicily and killed him by surrounding him with archers and crossbowmen and watched the blood gush
he couldent do a thing because he had no army I already killed it

[Dulce_et_Decorum_Est]

That's pretty funny when you consider the historical Papal ban on crossbows.

[Hannibal the destroy]

when i fired a scorpion and it killed an elephant which had just killed the enemy general.

[Kallikratis]

[...] So everyone, what's your favorite way to kill off the enemy general?

I love when i surround the general's bodyguards with my phalanx units! In a few seconds, the battle is over!

[Mrtickles]

Cornering him in a city street with mobs of angry peasants