Best victories

[marine513]

Post your best MTW2 victory stories/pictures here!

i just had probably the best victory on MTW2. i have a HRE campaign going on [i just started, im on turn 18 on VH/H] and venice decided to attack me. well, i had a diplomat in the area and bribed one of their armies- ends up that it only game me 19 men in all- 5 peasant archers, 9 mailed knights, and 5 mounted sergeants [something like that]. i had them randomly attack Zagreb because i saw Venice didnt have alot of troops there. Venice attacked my little 'army' with 91 italian militia.. as they came out of the town, i had my mounted sergeants charge into them- all horses died. i played a charge-and-run with my mailed knights on the itlian spearmen, managed to kill their captain and make them run!



silly Venice... - i used imageshack and it kinda messed up the photos btw lol, my graphics are better

[Exidus Maximus]

that's nothing. i had a mission where my English king and his bodyguard charged and killed over 300 Scottish soldiers. all highlanders, militia, and other stuff.

22 men vs 300. woot!

[Evolution]

Very nice, but you do have a really small army so i doubt it would have been written down in any historrical documents.


I did send a Stack over to the Aztecs and manage to route 4 of their Stacks. But then again the Aztecs are, very, very easy to crush when you have all of that lovely technology

[Exidus Maximus]

ill see if i can find the pic of my fave battle ever:

I sent a full stack on a last ditch effort to end the war with Germany... they countered with 1 stack sacking my cities, and another 4 full stacks attacking my stack!!! even worse: every one had TONS of family members... all uber warriors...

the battle consisted of this: i put myself near a corner, on a hill, and deployed stakes to channel the enemy into my center. I put all my heavy inf in my center, and my archers and skirmishers behind the stakes in deep lines.

the Germans formed up below me and waited for all of their men to be ready for the push up the hill... I sent some skirmishers down to pester them as they sat there. the Germans ran up the hill unformed and in poor order...

My Retinue Longbows let loose wave after wave of arrows. the German infantry made contact after losing easily a quarter of their number to my arrows. I pulled my bowmen back, and let my skirmishers engage the enemy at my stakes... the Germans kept pushing towards my center. I let them keep pushing me back, slowly... at the last second before my skirmishers buckled, i swarmed the Germans with my billmen, english dismounted knights, and swordsmen... it was a SLAUGHTER!!! I then sent my King and his son on a flanking movement to kill off all prisoners... I wasn't even worried about how many Germans I had killed, I had assumed they would just get more... then the battle ended...

I had killed all but 200 enemies, and lost about 160 men in total... But the best thing: EVERY GERMAN FAMILY MEMBER DIED!!! bwahahaha!!! They always charge WITH their infantry, so i put my stakes in such a way that they would impale themselves, almost guaranteed. woot! only guy that didn't get impaled: was their king, who my swordsmen dispatched quite handily.

I had gone from being on the verge of my first lost campaign, to being the sole ruler of all of the peoples of Europe... took me 20 years more to beat the rebels as well, but its ALOT easier to beat 15 or 20 separate rebel cities, than 15 or 20 united German cities.

[Kawligia]

My greatest victories often happen when I don't want them.

Like when I am trying to kill off a loser heir since I can't assasinate him or name someone else, and he winds up killing/routing a decent force by himself.

[supekele]

I think one of my favorites was in my current campaign, when Portugal crippled Spain, who was my ally. Well, wanting to maintain a decent reputation, I sent a nicely equipped stack to help Spain. I conquered a region and gifted it to the Spanish king, and then sent out my stack to sit next to theirs to act as reinforcements every so often.

Sure enough, Portugal attacks with his 7 command star Prince and a full equipped stack.

When the battle begins, the Spanish army is about 8 units big and is typical for their faction - it has 2 units of Jinetes and a few Archers with plenty of infantry. My stack is all elites - Retinue and Yeomen Longbowmen, Dismounted Feudal and English Knights, a unit of Mailed Knights, a unit of Feudal Knights, 2 Trebuchets and, of course, one of my decent Generals (4 command, I believe).

Portugal's army is surprising - it's almost 3/4 Cavalry.

I position myself on a hill with plenty of Forest and set up stakes. Spain comes in on the lower edge of the hill. As soon as their force is in, they advance on Portugal's flank.

Spanish and Portuguese Jinetes suddenly rush out at each other, and I zoom in briefly to watch. There's Javelins being thrown everywhere, the screams of agony as men are impaled off their horses and the panicking neighing of the mounts. All in all, a really neat, but useless skirmish.

Suddenly the Portuguese lines burst forward into my army. They have probably 300 mounted knights of all varieties rushing, unaware that I have stakes set up.

As soon as the Portuguese cavalry came over the hill, they saw the stakes. But it was too late! The sheer numbers of men charging forward had too much momentum, and they couldn't stop the charge.

All I heard was "AAARRRGGGHHH AAAAHHHH NEEEEIIIGGHHH" as waves of Cavalry crashed into the stakes. I even saw the Portuguese general hit one and go flying foward 15 feet into the horde of longbowmen waiting to receive the charge.

By the end of it all there was a gigantic body pile in front of the longbowmen, and the Spanish army finished off what was left of the Portuguese infantry.

[Seoj]

That battle was the most fun I've had in the game yet. I was up against about 30 dismounted fuedal knights, 2 units of spearmen, 1 unit of peasants, 1 unit of infantry militia, 1 unit of crossbowmen and the general's body guards.

Going into he battle I knew it would be a challenge, but Said the Fearless is my boy and there is nothing he can't handle. I just used my speed to my advantage. First I ran to the left flank of their formation, and when they were repositioning i realized it was my time to knock out the crossbowmen. I charged into them and killed all but 8 before the rest of the army got to me and i ran away again, just running circles around HRE's army until I saw the generals body guard was vurnerable. I charged at him and took down a decent number of bodyguards before I had to retreart again. Then, the enemy general mde a fatal flaw in his tactics and decided to chase after me, so i lead him away from the ground troops enough so I could kill him and thats just what I did. After that the battle was mine.

The peasants started to route so I chased them down. As I was chasing them, the dismounted feudal knights came out to confront me. I mowed them down quickly, before the spear men could reach me. Soon after I saw an opportunity to take out the militia and after most of their unit dissolved in seconds, they routed and I captured all of them I could. Then I contiuned my circle tactic on the enemy until they were all out of formation and I just charged into the middle of them. The spear men fought for a good 20 seconds until they decided to run away.

At this point I had won the battle, but because Said the Fearless is my most brutal warrior, I chased them down as they routed.

After the battle I executed everyone.

[ByzantinePeasant]

Once I was trying to kill off a disloyal general in Eras Total Conquest and sent him to do a suicide mission against the rebels. I lead the battle and somehow ended up getting a heroic victory against 2 contarai and 2 Cavalarii with only a general. Plus he was a no start General.

[_Elysium_]

From my English campaign last year, I was charging east through Europe and decided to take on a Milanese stack defending the bridge outside Venice, along with the Venice garrison. I expected to be ripped apart, but wasn't concerned. As long as my general survived.

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My first battle with the Mongols. I'd tried to tempt them into attacking a settlement, but they weren't interested so I decided to go after them.

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From my recent Milanese campaign, a full stack of HRE militia decided to have a go at my settlements in northern Italy, so I went out to greet them with a siege stack heading for HRE-held Zagreb.

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The general I engaged, along with his entire bodyguard unit, were cut down by crossbows without getting anywhere near my line. The general leading the reinforcements took a flaming catapult shot to the face. He is the one in the middle of those three crispy cavalry units about centre-left of the first screenshot.


After some efficient expansion in Africa, I decided to push out from northern Italy in all directions. France got caught off guard, as did the two HRE stacks and garrison at Vienna. The majority of the combined force was crossbow units, that were outranged by my Genoese Crossbow Militia. As their units exchanged fire with mine, after they'd trudged through a forest, my cavalry was attacking their rear and rounding up routers. One of the HRE captains was destroyed by an HRE Trebuchet shot. The other captain was cut down by my crossbows and the neral was run into the ground as he tried to flee.

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The majority of the combined force was crossbow units, that were outranged by my Genoese Crossbow Militia. As their units exchanged fire with mine, after they'd trudged through a forest, my cavalry was attacking their rear and rounding up routers. One of the HRE captains was destroyed by an HRE Trebuchet shot. The other captain was cut down by my crossbows and the general was run into the ground as he tried to flee.


Now for one of my finest achievements in M2TW. I'd sent a powerful field army deep into Hungarian territory. The Hungarian forces seemed to see the threat, and massed their forces at their capital, Sofia. My intention was to attack the defending stacks one at a time then deal with the garrison, taking full advantage of night fights. Unfortunately, I had so many active generals in the area that I'd got my stacks mixed up. Turned out the general wasn't a night fighter, which I discovered when I attacked a Hungarian stack. I couldn't be bothered reloading, so I fought.

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At one point, I had all but my general and a battered cavalry unit routing. I managed to consolidate my scattered force into a single group, which combined with my cavalry charges was enough to rout the remnants of the Hungarian force

[Kaiser Nonsense]

I don't want to brag but this is nothing, just random victories for me, the best ones are lost somewhere, I once with my King and his guards managed to fight off, I was playing with France, 800 dismounted feudal knights and 2 units of pavise crossbowmen of the Holy Roman Empire, only 2 knights survived the battle, but I won, anyhow, here they are, these are nothing like I said, just some nice victories I had on my last SS campaign:

[Miguel_80]

Great victories, hehehe! Some battles have had to be brutal.

[The Sun Warrior]

I've had some pretty DarnEpic victory battles throughout my 'career'.
WEEELL, this isn't one of them. I lost this battle - this was a DarnEpic defeat.
I was playing as the Germans - the 2nd or 3nd (MAYBE the 1st) Crusade was just called, and I felt obligated because most of the countries around were going on the Crusade (I was already a misfit, as always), and I decided to go myself. So instead of marching through the Papal States (which would have probably made the Pope make a Crusade against me... go figure), I went around in a fleet. After being delayed like 100,000.5 times, I decided just to invade Tunisia.
Now, my Prince was in this army, and he was my very best General because my King was aging (in his 60's, 70's, or 80's. He was REALLY old.)
Anyway, so my Prince (I forget his name) was going up against this Tunisian army. I we had roughly the same amount of troops. Anyway, I had gotten cocky and careless because I am so good at Medieval (ha... ha...), so my army engaged across the sandy flats. We stood deadlocked for quite a while, when suddenly - BAM I was loosing. My general - my precious Prince - had about 3 bodyguards left. I ordered him out of there, but I knew he was going to die, so I threw in all of my soldiers just to get out my Prince. He alone, got away from the fray - all guards dead.
Well, that was just DarnEpic watching him ride alone through the desert's leagues away from the enemy - an entire army chasing him.
He survived - but I had lost my entire army - one of my finest too.
Germany's hopes of conquering Tunisia and forcing it to be a colony were dashed on the bloody, gory sands...
One weary Prince rides away...

[PrestigeX]

I need to start taking photos - just last night I played, teutons attacked twice. Win battle, but they attack again at your leftovers...

I won the battle with only my General left alive -- just 1 man, it was so tense because I had to keep charging in against dismounted halbrudders - I got lucky.

[Kaiser Nonsense]

I need to start taking photos - just last night I played, teutons attacked twice. Win battle, but they attack again at your leftovers...

I won the battle with only my General left alive -- just 1 man, it was so tense because I had to keep charging in against dismounted halbrudders - I got lucky.

What faction were you playing as?

[totalwar_legend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-JtaSHdYe4

I don't have screenshots, but skip to 2:50. Best battle I've ever fought.