Your Funniest Situation on a Campaign

[debux]

I'm amazed that there weren't any topics about this... RTW is so unpredictable (AI speaking), like for example when suddenly allies attack you for nothing or small factions attack your mighty empire. This makes it REALLY fun for me at least.

Well, to start I'll say my own experience. It was my first campaign ever along the Julii (red uniforms look good on romans). When I was running well on my first week. East of my starting capital, I had Massilia, the town north from the latter and Campus Layzages (or something similar), all taken from warring Brittania (Gauls were wiped off Gaul because of their two-front battle agaisnt Brittania and the mighty Julii). I amassed two entire armies to kick Brittania out of main europe and commanded them to the nearest two towns. All of a sudden 3/4 of a spanish army come out of the white mountains and besiege Campus Lauzages in two straight turns. Having to experience whatoever in the game (only one week, remember) I started recruiting like a madman on my core cities and moving my armies back south. Campus Layzages was taken after heroic resistance (4 decent units against probably 15 units in all), and two of my most veteran Hastati were defeated after strugguling against the same army plus a new one that supported the initial inasion (losses were 100 mine vrs 300, both armies combined), I went crazy to take this pestilence of my lands (and free Hispania from undecent tyrany ). As my armies were halfway to engage with the new menace, a spanish diplomat offers me not to attack if I "please" didn't attack them. I was absolutely outraged of their foolish action of attyacking me while my armies were running (fighting) other errands. I counter-offered them an offer no man of sane mind would accept: a ceasefire with the condition of them giving me 4000 denarii and Campus Layzages. I made this outrageous offer for me to be able to make vengance on my poor hastatii... but amazingly they accepted it!! I was amazed for a few seconds, and then I really laughed out loud (lol'ed). Campus Layzages was vacated and their armies retreated. The gained denarii were donated to the "Destroy Spain" campaign (after a few years Spain was no more than a 3 star young general that felt to proud to be bribed with a few rabble to follow him). I'm still racking my brains after that one.

Tell your experiences! I'm sure someone else might have had something similar, or even better to tell. And also if you have a cool catchy title say it. The present one doesn't sound right to me.

[Magmaniac]

I was outnumbered 5-1 defending a town, I decided to play the battle to get as many kills as possible to spite my enemies. I had like 3 units of eastern infantry and one archers unit I think. I had all my infantry at the gate, and when the enemy poured in all my soldiers routed. I figured I was screwed and watched my guys all die and run to the middle. They regrouped in the middle and I had left a total of like 50 archers and maybe 100 eastern infantry against all the hordes of the great egyptian army. They kept pouring into the square and hammering my remaining infantry with their chariots. My archers were in melee with some chariots but I had them firing flaming arrows into them just for the hell of it at the same time, when miraculously one of the arrows killed their general. The general unit routed and I regrouped in the middle. By this point I had like 10 archers left and maybe 20 infantry, and they still had like 1000 men. They kept sending their units charging into the square, I would tell my archers to fire a volley of fire arrows into them. They routed every time, and I had my infantry kill as many of the routers as possible before the next units came in. I won the battle, with all the enemies either killed or routed off the field, and I had only four archers left at the end. After that I moved that archer unit to my capitol where they would retire and never have to do battle again so they could live in luxury. ^_^

[The last legion of Rome]

Tbh, ive seen quite a few of these types of threads but anyway,

Funniest situation for me would ultimately be when i was reduced to one pathetic province with scipii and egypt and Julii ruled the ancient world. But somehow every province i came up to had next to no garrison and i ended up finishing the long campaign goals after encountering no major forces along the way I got to where the other two's empires bordered and found they had like 30+ stacks fighting each other

[Hopit]

I were attacking whit superior force against 2 enemy chariots and pushed auto resolve... clear defeat...

[Zekey]

You don't want to know.

[The last legion of Rome]

Originally Posted by Zekey

You don't want to know.

Yeah we do

[Zekey]

No, you don't.

[SonOfOdin]

He would tell us, but then he would have to kill us

I never had any particular lol-ed moments in RTW, but I remember seeing the Naked fanatics of EB(they were actually naked...as in with their weiner out) and seeing them charging my infantry...I was like : BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!. They got pwned

[Zekey]

They are actually nude on EB? I gotta DL that mod.

[{GrailKnights} VeDrAn]

I wouldn't wanna see naked fanatics that are actually naked...lol

[Legio_Italica]

1 of my Julii roman armored gens w/ no upgrades/49 men utterly annihilated an army of 1300 Scipii Praetorians, Early Legions and Roman cav. Wish I had screenies to show u.

[Marion the Cantankerous]

My Franks about to rule what will be France recruited a disgruntled Roman General and the finest commander that came and owned the crap out of the British Isles.

His name was Sextus Analignus or something like that. Too bad the laptop broke or I would post screenshots.

[Doge Vitale]

[|Sith|Count_Max]

mustve been in 2004. an all HA army VS an infantry based sele army, while listening to "Cant touch this" by MC Hammer.

[Praetorian Quintus]

lol at the can't touch this post.

My funniest moment occured when I was playing as carthage and was besieged by 3 Scipii stacks and had only 4 units of libyan spearmen to defend my settlemet on sicily.

I decided to try and kill all I could and when the gate came crashing down on one side, I auto-routed one army, cause I killed their general in like 30 seconds, and on the other side (where first reinforcements attacked), I managed to destroy the army at the gate. Feeling confident now I prepare to meet the 3rd army, only to get auto routed when they touch me.

[|Sith|Count_Max]

heh thats a .

[ElMikkino]

Hmm...there was this one time in my first campaign as the Julii where I was defending Narbo for the umpteenth time (back then, I was too scared of Lugdunum's fully filled flag, and I didn't expand at all for 20 years), and it looked like I would finally lose it. I had something like 3 units of Principes, 1 unit of Hastati, and a General's Armoured Bodyguard. The Principes and Hastati both were a bit depleted, and had some xp upgrades, and the General had 3 xp upgrades. Anyways, I was fighting the British, who had warband spam, plus a general, and some swordsmen. They had 4 ladders, and 1 ram.

So, first the "invisible archers in the towers", destroyed the ram, and then the warbands put 2 ladders on the walls. Surprisingly, my Principes and Hastati defeated warband after warband, but they were steadily dying. While that was happening, I sent my gen all the time, mostly to soften up the infantry for my men, and I did end up suffering a bunch of casualties, but the enemy suffered a lot more from just that. Anways, the British swordsmen finally killed all my infantry, and I think I routed the British gen with my horses, or something. I just remember that he was not there. While my infantry were getting slaughtered by the swordsmen as they were routing towards the square, my gen had only 9 men left, and I made him go to the back of the city. The Britons, with their severely depleted army of 3 Swordsmen units, 1 in the mid-30s, and 2 in the late-teens, early-20s, walked into the square and surrounded the centre flag. I then, as there was nothing else I could do, charged the infantry with my unit of 9 cav. Miraculously, the one with the least men routed almost instantly, followed by the middle one, and finally, the biggest one. I had won with only 9 men left, when I was outnumbered 7 to 1 (it was 250-something Romans versus 1420-something Britons)...

I was actually so amazed by this that I called my friend on the phone and told him about it, and he was like "yeah...great"...that was so dorky .
But, I still call that gen, Nero Augustus, which the game called Nero the Honest and later, Nero the Brave, Nero the Hero...

[Genius of the Restoration]

Nice one!

[Drakedeath]

Mine has to be on a campaign as Macedon. I was defending Corinth from Greece. My army contained two units of Militia Hoplites, and Greece had a unit of militia hoplites, one of hoplites, and one General's Bodyguard.

My militia routed the Greek militia hoplites, and the archers in the towers finished off the hoplites, but not before they'd brought my units down to 5 men and 3 men each. The general charges the square and kills seven of those surviving, and the last one was knocked to the ground. He stood up, and I had him go into phalanx formation, and turn towards the general.

The General's Bodyguard charged. The Militia Hoplite stopped. The charge bonus was reflected back...and the Greek king, Kleomenes, died. The hoplite actually killed two more guys before he was cut down.

Since then, I've been fond of militia hoplites. They can be quite underrated.