Greatest Victories

[MarcusTullius]

Anyone got any screenies of their best victories?

I'll start of with 2:

Most recently from my campaign in Gaul:



and a slightly older one from one of my final battles against Macedon:

[Spartan 666]

don t have any screenshots unfortunately,anyway my three most glorious victories are these,i remember perfectly!

-playing ROME against GERMANS,LEGIO XII FULMINATA (12cohorts,1 1st cohort,3 heavy cav,general,3 archer aux) so around 3300 men i butched 4 german full stack armies,3500 men each,one after another cause i play with limited men on battlefield.their losses:more than 12000 men.my losses around 1200 men,the 1st cohort was completely destroyed so i became furious and launched all my forces to wild assault!

-with MACEDON against DACIA,me with 10 phalangites,2 elite phalangites,2 sword hoplites,5 heavy cav and general,destroyed 3 enemy armies that tried to cross a river

-with SELEUCID against ARMENIA,destroyed 3 armies that attacked my city...lots of them managed to withdraw and i also suffered heavy losses!

all battles in VH,of course!

[dominic]

it's my past campaign, glorious LEGVII Clav was atacked by african rebels...


unfortunately, it's only screen that I saved...

Of course, more glorious victories were taken place when I defended the bridges... But the mentioned above is special 'cause was gained in desert against three armies that atacked my legion from 3 different sides...

[MarcusTullius]

But the mentioned above is special 'cause was gained in desert against three armies that atacked my legion from 3 different sides...

I absolutely love those! Especially when you whoop one army then turn round just in time to face the other
And its always tactically more challenging because you need to save pila, reorganise lines etc.

[Tankbuster]

Good one, Marcus Tullius. We needed a topic like this I'll post mine in just a sec

[MarcusTullius]

This thread has died somewhat.

Are people trying to say they can only loose to AI? and not win good victories?

Lets see some screenies people.....

[Tankbuster]

Oh yeah, I forget about this. I wanted to upload them, but imageshack didn't work

Can't remember half of my "great victories" but I do remember a series of really tough battles. Playing VH. I had just recruited a new Second legion, fully retrained and all but completely unexperienced, and I marched them up to Segestica. I immediately attacked one stack. I got lucky, because I attacked from on a hilltop. I had no real missile troops, other than velites, so it didn't really help me that much. I won with relative ease, but I still sustained a lot of casualties.

Only next turn, I was attacked by another one of those full stack armies, and now they attacked ME from on a hilltop. A BIG hilltop. They attacked ferociously, ALMOST breaking my ranks. I won a good victory, but now the ranks of my legion were thinned out (all my cavalry died, luckily some of them healed, and also most of my infantry had sustained blows).

And now, ANOTHER ONE of those damned free people stacks attacked me, and now I was heavily outnumbered. All those stacks were the same by the way: mostly hoplites, 2 medium cavalry, 2 macedonian cavalry and a light cavalry + mercenary peltasts and some thracian warriors, I think. By now, they outnumbered my cavalry nearly 6 to 1. I set up 3 or 4 ambushes, hoping to lure their cavalry into a series of traps, and also hit their hoplites with a couple of ambushes. It worked



That was the only time I defeated three full-stack armies with an experienced one... on flat terrain at least.

And this is a good victory against the Gauls in an earlier release.

[MarcusTullius]

Nice victories.....wow those free people really do have it in for you

[Tankbuster]

Nice victories.....wow those free people really do have it in for you

You have no idea... They ambush you, sneak up on you, double-attack you. They destroyed one of my legions near Saldae. Only legion I ever lost... to damn rebels

[Scipio praeditus]

I can remember my greatest battle like it was yesterday:
It took place in northern Italy during summer, one of my standard Republikan II legions was ambushed by a full stack of free people outnumbering me by about a third.
We where caught in marching line, on a road with stretched forrested hills on both sides, much like a small valley.
The enemy had seperated their forces into two lines deployed on top of those hills and within bowrange, although both armies had only javelins.
On the fly I deployed my men in two lines facing the enemy lines as quick as possible, my shirmishers ended up in the middle with the princeps, hastatii and triarii on the flanks.
As the enemy began its full on charge, I was still not sure what to do.
But when they had closed about halfway with my lines I saw a chance, I ordered my skirmishers and princeps to shift the center to the flanks, and my hastatii to rotate 45 degrees.
In effect there now where four line formations with a massive hole in the middle:
---------------

-------\-----/---
--C------G------C
-------/-----\---

---------------
(White stripes are for spacing)
As the enemy came within pila range of my hastatii I hoped that they would continue their charge towards the hole in the center, I had placed my general there as a lure and it worked, after my general retreated they filled up the space in between my hastatii.
As the last javelins/pila where thrown by the skirmishers and princeps, the battle suddenly looked totaly different, after a charge by all my infantry and repeated cavalry charges there was no more enemy army.
In the end after average healing, I was left with less then five percent losses, a heroic victory and a fully functioning legion that went on to fight less notable battles.
I was shocked at my luck, I had half unintentionally turned the ambush around and took the head of every last Veneti b@$%@&d.
I've had some heroic battles with my Imperials as wel, but none as notable as this one, as I take care to have the advantage (with spies and such).
And I keep switching between 1 and 0 turn recruitment, so there are relatively few full stacks on the map compared to some of the insanity I've seen around here.
I never bother about screenshots by the way so, sorryz.

[jerjes]

THis is from one of countless battles against Pergamum in the Straits area



Even though it says "Draw", the enemy was forced to retreat due to high casualties

[pseudocaesar]

5000! Holy cow, thats an awesome battle. However, i think my computer would implode if i even tried to make it play the battle

[Exekutor]

5000! Holy cow, thats an awesome battle. However, i think my computer would implode if i even tried to make it play the battle

5000 kills in one battle ... I hate you guys who can play on huge

I really have to get a new comp soon ... where's charity when you need it

[jerjes]

5000 kills in one battle ... I hate you guys who can play on huge

I really have to get a new comp soon ... where's charity when you need it

I play on large although with all setting to maximum (even antialiasing )

[Beetlecat]

Does the AI have the same limitation of maximum number of units in the field as the player? -- or is it similar to the AI control of secondary player stacks which lets them wander in and do their own thing rather than wait for an open slot.

I was attacked recently by a two stack enemy, and the second stack lingered on the border of the map as if they were waiting to be allowed in.

Maybe it was just a glitch since it was a forest map.

Those high-odds battles are very fun to play.

[Drtad]

Holy Shnykies that must of been awesome!!!

[MarcusTullius]

Great stuff guys, keep it coming
Heres another quite recent one from me:

[dvk901]

If you have 'Limited men on battlefield' turned ON, second or thrid armies (including your own) have to wait to come onto the field. If you have it turned OFF, then all can come on at once.

[pseudocaesar]

UNLIMITED_MEN_ON_BATTLEFIELD:FALSE

I have it set to false, this means that when three stacks are involved in a battle, you get that message that the reinforcements are delayed. Only when a certain number of troops have died do the reinforcements arrive. If you set it to true, i think the maximum number is 5 stacks, i.e you surrounded on all four sides.

[Drtad]

Psuedo is right, Dvk, you got it backwards, I think.