Most one-sided battle you fought

[gargarensi]

Whether the AI was too stupid to avoid battle on the campaign map or you were just persistent (hell, it could've been the other way round') what was the most one-sided battle you were in. Mine has gotta be one with me playing Julii.

My faction leader was heading to join his men in on the invasion of Dacia. travelling from Arretium to join up with a few stacks of urbans. At the moment, I was faced with civil war, so no infantry escort was available. So, I traveled through enemy terrain, undefended and with only 50 soldiers with crap stats. And what do I bump into on my way to Dacia, three full stacks of greeks (whom I pissed off after "taking care" of their faction leader who was getting a bit too powerful)so yeah, tried my best to avid them but they wanted a fight so I gave it to them. From the moment I entered the battle scren, I knew I was gonna loose. So I just decided to pull a banzai-esque charge for the fun of it. I charged head on into the peasents, killing maybe 20, then I can circling back killing some archers until thir cretans got me from long range. By the time I made a third charge, I had about 15 guys left. I charged into the ranks of spartans (yes I know, retarded) but what was amazing that my faction leader was still alive along three of my guy and I also was able to take a good chunk of their spartans. So, they fought to the death until greek reinforcements came and sent a flaming catapult projectile in my direction. It was fun to watch and I was able to kill maybe, 300-350 guys. not bad for 50 against 6000+

[Centurion1981]

Medium difficulty campaign playing as Greece I got besieged by two Gallic armies in Gaul; the turn after I took their settlement. I had an army of 424. The Gallic army and its reinforcements was over 1800+. It was a small settlement with wooden walls. My other armies were too far away and had to pay attention to Carthage who decided to attack me. My 424 were going to have to pull it off or die trying.

So, I stationed all my men in the town plaza/square. In the small Gallic settlements, the square/town plaza is very narrow. The roads leading to it are very narrow as well. So I put four Armored hoplites units in one front. That is the front that they decided to attack the most. They sent most of their forces through that road. In the other two sides, I put my swordman in lose formation. They sent about 500 men two attack the other two sides. I also had 2 Heavy Greek Calvary units. I defeated the 500 or so men with pretty much ease. My calvary was able to get behind them and that was it. In the strong front, my 4 units of Armored hoplites took a mayor beating. They were all down to half their strength. Then I sent my swordman and calvary to back up the Armoured Hoplites. I was able to brake their formation and they eventually routed. 200 of my men survived and 123 of the combine Gallic forces survived

I didn't care about the settlement's walls. I gave it to them with out a fight. I decided to take a stand in the narrow roads leading to the square plaza. Yes, I did this thinking about the Spartan stand in Thermopylae. It worked

[gargarensi]

nice, what was the total kills for the battle?

[Centurion1981]

It was around 1,732 to 187.

[Paul d]

ive had a super one sided battle.

a half unit of roman peasant vs my whole stack of elites. (playing as the carthaginians i believe.)

battle ratio (in my favour)

200:3


lol

[Vault Dweller]

Was that by any chance a custom battle? My most one sided is when I filled one of my Carthaginian stacks with war elephants and went rampaging through Italy and Gaul killing every field army I could find. Eventually, I found a single warband. I won without a single loss (predictably)

[Cyrus the Virus]

Was that by any chance a custom battle? My most one sided is when I filled one of my Carthaginian stacks with war elephants and went rampaging through Italy and Gaul killing every field army I could find. Eventually, I found a single warband. I won without a single loss (predictably)

Aha, so you have also used that tatic?an elephant stack? I did it one time when conquering Rome/a.

[zedestroyer]

In my last campaign playing with the Sassanids the Eastern Roman Empire decided to invade my lands. The Romans ordered one of their full stacks to cross the river bridge in the frontier with my Empire and they blocked the same bridge with other full stack. In my turn I attacked the army, that as reinforcements the other full stack that had crossed to my lands.
I had 5-6 Clibinarii, all with silver chevrons and upgraded weapons, and my faction leader, with a golden chevron and upgraded weapons.
The Romans had 2 full stacks full of commitatenses, elite archers, elite superman, horse-archers, and equites.

I positioned my units in the area of the future arrival of the reinforcements and started the battle. While the army that I attacked was crossing the bridge,I destroyed the reinforcement units before they had a chance of realizing they were being attacked. After that I used the divide and conquer strategy, dividing my forces and compelling the enemy to do the same, so I was able the attack the weaker pints of the enemy, starting a full scale retreat. After that with was a pure massacre.

I JUST LOVE THOSE CLIBINARII

[Vault Dweller]

It works rather well, don't you think, Boromir?

[Cyrus the Virus]

It works rather well, don't you think, Boromir?

Yes, but you can't replenish the troops.

[sumaznguy]

I sieged Ravenna which had one plumtarri with silver weapon and armor and a general.

I had 20 Steppe Hordes Spearmen. I sent 6 units after the general, and 14 against the plumtarri. The 6 units beat the general. While the 14 ROUTED against the plumtarri. But luckily they all stopped running and then I swarmed all 20 units against the plumtarri. Rome only had about 200 men I had like 5000. I lost 1000 men. wtf.

[czePowerslave]

For me it was when my city got besieged in BI by entire horde, 4 filled stacks (in BI Thats HELL OF A FORCE AS YOU KNOW , mostly Horse archers and elite infantry. I had a nice contingent of archers and few spearmen there, totally about 600-700 men, while PC threw about 5,000 of elites at me. By means of weird AI and archers, I managed to kill off over 2,500 enemy soldiers, of which greatest took my archers based on walls, who along with bunch of limitatentes or whatever the name is wasted nearly entire stack of enemy units. Last thing alive was my cavalry, which I used to run around my towers who were still firing at the enemy it was fun to do, even I knew that I cannot defend breaches in every city part, I stll stood firmly to die Fun thing was, that turn later entire horde, I believe it was Huns, was eliminated to the very family only, by Vandal horde, which had just one half stack left so much for the hordes...

[Scutarii]

In BI as the ERE, the entire starting Vandal horde besieged my norther most city. I had about 1000 men, they had 7500+. Long story short, I managed to kill about 7000 of them, while losing one city. They may have won, but they chose to sack the city, and so had no way of replenishing the 7000 men I killed. I finished them off next turn with a support army. That's at least one of my best battles, if not the most one-sided.

[czePowerslave]

In BI as the ERE, the entire starting Vandal horde besieged my norther most city. I had about 1000 men, they had 7500+. Long story short, I managed to kill about 7000 of them, while losing one city. They may have won, but they chose to sack the city, and so had no way of replenishing the 7000 men I killed. I finished them off next turn with a support army. That's at least one of my best battles, if not the most one-sided.

Thats indeed a sweet victory Exchange a city for the nation

[movemove]

I think it was once when one of my cities was sieged by armenia, some other faction and when they assualted, it was something like 7:30 their wy
so I line up my phalanxes agfainst the gates and walls, and the AI just decided to be really cocky and charge all itss units into my phalanxes. most of its soldiers charged through my gates which fell first (obviously, (wooden palisade or the other wooden thing))

but I had two units of hoplites in a V shape in front of the gates, so as soon as the enemy comes in they are flanked on two sides ..by phalanxes

leave it to AI stupidity to give me a massive heroic victory

the V thing

. is a filler
- is wall
_is gate
'" is phalanx
.......______........
......'".........'"....
.......'".......'"....
........'".....'" . . ..

have screens, but dont wanna post for now

[sumaznguy]

I think it was once when one of my cities was sieged by armenia, some other faction and when they assualted, it was something like 7:30 their wy
so I line up my phalanxes agfainst the gates and walls, and the AI just decided to be really cocky and charge all itss units into my phalanxes. most of its soldiers charged through my gates which fell first (obviously, (wooden palisade or the other wooden thing))

but I had two units of hoplites in a V shape in front of the gates, so as soon as the enemy comes in they are flanked on two sides ..by phalanxes

leave it to AI stupidity to give me a massive heroic victory

the V thing

. is a filler
- is wall
_is gate
'" is phalanx
.......______........
......'".........'"....
.......'".......'"....
........'".....'" . . ..

have screens, but dont wanna post for now

that's my favorite strategy with phalanx nations. I just have a few of them parallel to each other and let the enemy pour in. Since they can't attack until they get inside they just get cut down, and when they finally get far enough to fight they rout due to oil and getting slaughtered by phalanx trying to enter. I lose like 5 soldiers using that method.

[Cyrus the Virus]

that's my favorite strategy with phalanx nations. I just have a few of them parallel to each other and let the enemy pour in. Since they can't attack until they get inside they just get cut down, and when they finally get far enough to fight they rout due to oil and getting slaughtered by phalanx trying to enter. I lose like 5 soldiers using that method.

Well phalanxes is obviously good at defending, especially at the walls/gates.

[Calyptus]

BI, any battle of ERE vs the numedian successors, the berbers. Those guys rout after 2 seconds. No need for tactics, a head on charge with light/medium cavalry creates a full rout.

Seriously ,the Numedians were bad but had some specialists in their army making them capable of beating any other army with the right tactics, but the berbers have absolutely nothing. Even their chieftain doesn't even have decent morale.

[Cmdr_Sdxo]

I was Julii, the enemy was Carthage. I had cornered all the Carthage's family members into Dimmidi(or so I thought,they had one left in Scallabis), and I was sending the siege detachment of my Africa forces from Tingi to perform their usual task(ie. bombarding their cities to kingdom come, demolishing the walls&causing as many casualties as possible) before the main force (led by a family member) arriving from Carthage would come and finish their faction leader+the heir. The plan failed horribly. My stack that was meant to finish them, was promptly surrounded by 4 or so stacks and the siege detachment(6 onager unit+ weakling units, just enough to protect them in the situation I had planned) was attacked by 2 full stacks, one lead by their family member. Long(and boring :I ) story short, they chased the siege stack all the way to the lower right corner of the strategic map where I made my last stand with the onagers+few auxilia and basic roman archers(the ones with the horribly short range). Nothing epic, none at all, but it made me feel like a complete tool for not performing recon of the area beforehand. The other stack was also killed off rather unceremoniously, what with my family member killed by charging elephants and the nearby infantry scattering and fleeing almost immediately afterwards. Christ, did I feel bad about it, especially because it was the first time I've ever lost a family member on the battlefield, and it being the first "real" defeat against Carthage ever. My glorious roman formations crumbling like paper maché at the tusks of the vile Carthaginian war elephants. My onagers,the fiery tools of death crafted in Arretium, the cradle of the House of Julii,having aided my war efforts in the assaults to Narbo Martius,Osca,Carthago Nova, Numantia, Tingi and the great walls of the city of Carthage, were hacked to pieces and left to rot in the middle of the desert.. Prior to that, the battles I had witnessed have been pretty equal, neither side totally butchering the other.