Post your heroic victories

[mastaace]

the place to post your most glorious victories is here.

[Heinz Guderian]

the place to post your most glorious victories is here.

with or without the red-line out of bounds cheat? Cos i've positioned top notch spearman on the corner of the map so i cant be outflanked with lots of high level archers behind them and some catapults, against several armies. Like Zod in Superman II: i win..... i always win.

[mastaace]

post it when you feel it was glorious, and galactic hard to win

[Nissedruva]

This is a nice one in casualty vs casualty % wise...not a Heroic though (for some reason)

[anaztazioch]

This is a nice one in casualty vs casualty % wise...not a Heroic though (for some reason)

If you place lots of high end units vs zounds of peasants, you wont get heroic.

[Nissedruva]

If you place lots of high end units vs zounds of peasants, you wont get heroic.

I didn't face peasants or zerghordes of Saracen militia it was a typical mixed Ayyubid army with Nubian spearmen askari infantry jund spears and some Saracen militia etc...there were no cavalry though therefore the high number of soldiers.

I also attacked at night which gave me and advantage, in short i used my cavalry very well and managed to rout the enemy without using any infantry.

[colin666]

I didn't face peasants or zerghordes of Saracen militia it was a typical mixed Ayyubid army with Nubian spearmen askari infantry jund spears and some Saracen militia etc...there were no cavalry though therefore the high number of soldiers.

I also attacked at night which gave me and advantage, in short i used my cavalry very well and managed to rout the enemy without using any infantry.

I was just offering an explanation didn't say that you actually did :\

[Shetsiruli]

Hey guys I know im not a regular here but sometimes i come to the threads and read your remarks and updates and questions and basically lot of your conversations I guess you can say I am a secret Fan anyway i dont know if anyone remembers me but i was the guy who asked you guys to give over a message to tadzreuli for filming in georgia but i also play mtw. basically couldnt help myself not writting my heroic vics.

1. basically since Im Georgian thats the only faction I play with.. unless its a Brittania campaign but while back in rome total war..i took georgia as a region and i had 100 spear man in the city. the Pontus empire cam e with 2000 men and ratio was like way off so I did auto battle, ithough i was gonna loose anyway...and it showed up HEROIC VICTORY lol...I was proud cause Im Georgian and having such small population to the persians and turks in history Thats what we relied on lol...believe it or not...sad huh?

2. and in BC I had 1 unit of mon archers. 2 units of tadzreuli horse i believe thats what they are called. and i beat the Turks they came at me with like 1000 men... the thing was i routed the army and went for the generals body guards and by the time i killed him and the body gueards my horses were all gone. exept half of one unit..the rest was history...charging behind enemy and archers chargin...next thing you know they route you slaughter ))))))))))....


3. THIS BATTLE I WILL NEVER FORGET....i HAD GEORGIANS OF ABOUT 500 AND SELJUKS CAME IN WITH 2 ARMIES OF 1000 EACH. i KILLED FEW OF THEIR INFANTRY AT THE WALLS WITH MY kHEVSURS... AND BY THE TIME THE HORSE CAME IN I TOOK EM OUT WITH THE WOODEN SPHERES....SOME HORSE WENT AROUND IT SO THEY WERE DOWN TO ABOUT 2 HORSE UNITS AND LIKE 5 INFANTRY UNITS..I HAD ONLY GENERALS BODY GUARDS OF 5 SINCE GEORGIAN WAS LACKING THE BODY GUARDS... AND I HAD HALF UNIT OF KARTLIAN SPEARMEN... AS THE KARTLIANS HELD ON IN FRONT OF THE CITY SQUARE, MY BODY GUEADS CHAGED AND CHARGED BEHIND, FROM SIDE, FROM EVERYOWHERE...AT LAST ALL WERE KILLED EXEPT THE HEIR TO THE THRONE. MEPHE GIORGI.. bELIEVE OR NOT WITH JUST HIM I CHARGED HIM INTO A UNIT OF INFANTRY AS HE CHARGED AND KILLED THEY ROUTED AND THEY WOULD STOP ROuTING FEW YARDS AWAY. BUT ANYHTING THAT CAME TO HIM HE WOULD DESTORY..


i PLAYED WITH HIM GOOD 15 MINUTS... KILLING..AND AT THE END AFTER THE EMEY HAD TRIED THE FIRE ARROWS THE 10TH TIME ... THE GREAT ONE WENT DOWN IN FLAMES... I THOUGHT IT WAS A CHEAT CODE I COULDNT BELIEVE HE CAN KILL SO MANY..GUY WAS AMAZING.. )))


BY THE WAY CHECK THIS VIDEO OUT...its about the Georgian army in the past and present..just a quick cool vid..i think youll enjoy...its like BC brought to life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFtB5wYIi5Q

[mastaace]

i see you made some prisoners seems strange indeed that it is no heroic victory.

[Nissedruva]

i see you made some prisoners seems strange indeed that it is no heroic victory.

I just say..Cavalry shocks

I did not even use my infantry.

[Faris ad Din]

Battle of Ta'iz, South Arabia, Summer of 1194
In my Omani campaign, I had finally assembled an army to attack the rebels in Yemen - they have among the biggest standing rebel forces in the region. I placed no other but the just-come-of-age son Qutayba al-Nabhani, son of the leader Kahlan in charge of the army. After I finished conquering San'a, Ta'iz was next, with a large army just outside its gates and a decent-sized garrison as well. Qutayba begins his battle of "rite of passage" at the age of seventeen along with his cousin Muzafar one year his senior.

Omani forces: 2 Noble Lancers bodyguards, 6 units of Arabian Horsemen, 1 unit (rank 9) Ansar Warriors, 1 unit (one-third-strength rank 5) Omani Swordsmen, 4 units Aceh Warriors, 2 units Arab Archers, 4 units Bado Camel Archer Mercenaries (300 gold hiring price AND rank 4 experience for a unit that is normally trained for 750 gold! What a steal!)
Total: 1874 men deployed

Yemeni field army: 1 unit Bado Camel Archers, 3 units Ansar Warriors, 2 units Dismounted Noble Lancers, 4 units Arab Spearmen, 3 units Arab Archers
1671 men deployed
Yemeni garrison reinforcements: 2 units Arab Spearmen, 2 units Arab Archers
561 men deployed
Total: 2232 men deployed

The auto-calc odds were about 2:3 by the way (though no person in their right mind should place any faith in auto-calc)

The battle begins in the afternoon in the picturesque Yemeni desert, with my side of the battlefield flat, but a mountain on my opponent's side. And would you have it, the AI ALWAYS goes for higher ground. Secondly mountains are notoriously hard to navigate.

I deploy my army in my corner of the map, two units of Arab Archers in front (I do not like starting battles with archers behind my line, as their low angle of trajectory could hit allies in front of them - and they get more chances for clear shots) of my lines of Aceh Warriors (for soaking damage). My Ansars and Omani Swordsmen are in reserve to support my Aceh Warrior shield, and I deploy my two bodyguards and six units of Arabian Horsemen to the side ready to launch an irresistible hammer at the opponent. My four units of Bado Camel Archers are deployed far to the front line, away from my main army, ready to skirmish.

My opponent's army begins deployed "on" the mountain as expected, with units this way and that in a confused fashion, and they begin marching to and fro. My Bado Camel Archers begin attacking a lone unit of Dismounted Noble Lancers trying to make it up some indistinguishable mountain path, and for a long while I weaken the unit severely but get no counter-response from their main army. One unit of Arab Archers show up and inflict a few casualties on my Bado Camel Archers as they run low on ammunition and I withdraw them.

I wait, and within a minute or so a few units of soldiers approach my main army from further down the mountain - another group of Dismounted Noble Lancers in front. I bring up my Bado Camel Archers to use up the last of their ammunition on them, and my Arab Archers open up on them at max range - the force of impact of their volleys of arrows and the casualties they cause (and forcing the unit to reform shape) slows it down. The Dismounted Noble Lancers, normally a high morale unit, routs before they reach my archers. My archers make kills on a few approaching units of Arab Spearmen before I have to pull them behind my lines and my Aceh Warriors take over. At that point I launched my cavalry wing and charged the enemy army - mainly units that were yet to reach my infantry lines but it didn't matter, I just made to charge the enemy army head on - and caused a great slaughter before most of them broke.



The moment to make it (or break it) - screenshot taken of 500 Arabian cavalry galloping across the battlefield. Highly romantic stuff.



More shots of cavalry - I didn't seem to see fit to take shots of anything else like my Bado Camel Archers skirmishing, or my archers destroying a unit of elite spearmen or my infantry slugging it out in my battle line for record's purposes. Only these scenes of masses of swift cavalry apparently struck me more than the others.



More results:
Historic Battle Marker
A nice feeling to break my faction heir into battle and one of the most memorable battles in Arabia I've experienced.
The general's bodyguard inflicted 161 straight kills in that battle and 201 prisoners captured with 4 experience gained. His cousin Muzafar's bodyguard inflicted 23 kills and 95 captured with 2 experience gained.
As for casualties, my Aceh Warriors took 158 casualties slugging it out with the enemy's infantry, and the rest of my army took 52, as intended. No offense to any of you actually from Banda Aceh!
I caught nearly everyone except 3 early routing enemies, and after the battle I received the "Enemy Army Routs" message - that included the garrison reinforcements. Ta'iz was empty of any defenders and Qutayba was rewarded with being able to simply march in and occupy the town.

[mastaace]

yes, that is a nice one.

[Scalylizard]

Ahhh I have a heroic victory too, it is probably my most successful Total War battle ever
Playing as the Georgians, 2 massive stacks of Ayyubids attacked me, and this was an open field battle, not siege, becuase the casualties are really unreal.

Georgia
7 units of Archer Auxilia
8 units of horse archers
Total 600 men

Ayyubids 2 armies, around 1000 each, all infantry spearmen and archers.
Total 2140 men

Heroic Victory,
Georgian casualties 89
Ayyubid casualties, at least 2000, over 800 captured and 1200 dead.


There are , of course reasons for this amazing success or amazing incompetency of the AI. First is that for some reason Ayyubid army was completely lacking in cavalry, which I took advantage of to a great degree by my horse archers, by engaging it long before it arrived my infantry.

Second is that even though there were 2 armies, they didn't coordinate their attacks. the farther one took about 7-8 minutes to walk from the edge of the map to my position, whereas the one nearer immediately attacked. As a result, I routed the first army in 5-6 minutes, reformed and routed the second army as well.

EDIT: I fought this battle around 10 days ago, that's why I don't remember the exact numbers, other than my 89 casualties and over 2000 casualties for Ayyubids.. I wish I took a screenshot.

[Faris ad Din]

Ah, archer armies. Why use plain swordsmen/melee cavalry when you can have melee-capable archers and horse archers? You can rain down so much hell on the enemy before they get to even introduce themselves. The Archer Auxilia (apparently the same as the ERE's Trebizond Archers and the Armenian Didebuls Archers) are fair in melee (if your enemies can even reach you). As for any type of horse archers you can outflank all but the heaviest enemies and charge them in the back. I love the simulatanous shower of arrows and cavalry charge with horse archers, charging at an enemy while shooting them at the same time. Pure evil.

[Kip]

@ Faris ad Din:

Agreed 100%. Ghulam Infantry + Ghaznavid Cavalry = Ownage.

[HunterKiller]

can we post crushing defeat?

[Aetius]

can we post crushing defeat?

Against the AI, not possible.

[Mega Tortas de Bodemloze]

@ HunterKiller:

I'ts a free country, throw that puppy up there.

Please by all means post your noble effort....

[mastaace]

@ HunterKiller:

I'ts a free country, throw that puppy up there.

Please by all means post your noble effort....

yes, do it.
i wish there were heroic defeats though.:sparta:

[Caelifer_1991]

hehe im sure that if you were to compose your entire army of peasants and peasant archers, turn skirmish mode on and fire @ will off, and face them away from the enemy (that is comprised entirely of heavy cavelry and missile cavelry) in a huge mass, then a crushing defeat would be possible... just =]