Epic battles

[stefano89]

What about posting your greatest battles in here to hear out your experiences?

Yesterday, playing as the Knights Templar, the Egyptians were in my territory, near Acre and preparing to besiege it, with an army of 2000 men, and there were two more stacks with 1700 and another one of 1800 men.
My army was composed of 1800 men mostly composed of noble spearmen, templar sergeants, muslim archers and hospitaller knights, with my faction leader. I took the odds and decided to confront them in battle, head on and try to defeat them, and when I see the battle map, my surprise, a favourable map with an hill... And it there was only one entrance to the hill you could get up there... So I arranged my army in the field like this:



blue: spearmen
red: archers
green: cavalry
yellow: egyptians

The egyptian army tried to make their way up the hill, but my archers melted the first wave like butter, and then my spearmen done their job...
Outcome: first wave 700 egyptians survived
second wave - 900 egyptians survived
third wave - 500 egyptians survived

My army won the battle with 1100 men... and the battle lasted about a hour and a half... but it was only a clear victory... since the egyptian generals are like tanks and killed many of my spearmen UPHILL...

[shenryyr]

my invasion of rome during complete faction relocation as the fatimids. mostly for scenery.

[General Dissaray]

My greatest battle is coming quick. I took Ciaro on the whim of the Pope as Genoa. The Sultin didn't have many men there to keep the city, I think they just set off to invade some where. Takeing the city was a mundane afair, I had it up on him about 2 soldiers for every one of his. The tricky part is giong to be keeping the city. A full stack lead by the new Sultin is knocking on the door and would like his palice back. I had to stop to consider how to takle this one, and for dinner. After I have it out with them I will have all kinds of neet pictures, hopefuly I will be wining in them.

[DireklianCliff]

Defending a siege is easy, especially if you have boiling oil and/or ballista towers. But tell us how it goes!

[General Dissaray]

Usualy I dont' sweat a seige like this. Most of the time I play England so I always have ample arows with witch to harass and burn things. This time I only have one unit of genose xbows and some pesant archers. The muslim invaders are looking fairly well equipt too, should make for a good fight..... Just have to get the damn home work out of the way first....

[Tetsu]

Well the battle I got a Heroic victory on was a relatively small battle in comparison (350 of mine vs 500 of theirs), but I think it was that which gave me the heroic victory. I was Geona and Ajacco was under seige by Sicily. At the time, the city only had a palisade (see, no walls for troops to stand on) and they had a clear advantage in troop numbers and quality over me.

Anyway, I did a (what I see as) standard defence of the town with the circumstances: Positioning all my spears in the town square and my archers in a spot where they can shoot at the invaders. Gates fell, archers ran like buggery back to behind the spears. Silician cav comes charging down and cuts down a full unit of Geonese Crossbow Milita before they can get to safety, but the other two units get away. They then slam into the spear wall and get annihiliated.

A cavalry flank by the enemy also failed, but they then had engaged my main spear unit with their own spears, in superiour numbers. Then I deployed my ace in the hole: my generals cav who first decimated the enemies muslim archers, then slammed into the spears from behind. Enemy general dies in quick order with the calvary, so they are already at morale loss. A few charges later, they rout completely.

Total losses: 104 dead for me, about half of those were crossbow men caught naked by enemy cav.

Silician losses: 453. Their army routed after that.

[s0meguy]

Defending a siege is easy, especially if you have boiling oil and/or ballista towers. But tell us how it goes!

You mean the oil that comes from the gates when the enemy is under it and you're near it to control the gateway right? It's not that good at all imo, it was much better in RTW where it could annihilate entire units trying to move underneath it... But in RTW I also find that the sieging AI was smarter and barely used the gateway to get in.

My last semi epic battle was defending a settlement with wooden walls, I have a load of spears and place my best shieldwall capable units at the gate. They come to batter it down, I get a few spearmen units out of the other gate and run around the wall, attack their archers at the back of their city and destroy most of them, my own spearmen also getting destroyed by a few enemy spearman units. Meanwhile my gate broke and the AI was rushing their spearman and infantry in there. The shieldwall holds them back for a while, as I engage their general unit with the leftovers of my spearman flanking units. Half of them rout and get annihilated, but luckily I kill the general and then the rest of the spearmen routs and also get killed. The shieldwall at the gate was breaking so I threw in all infantry and spearmen that I had standing near the gate. After a while they pushed them back out of the city and I moved some cavalry archers near their back, then they started to rout... 1 unit of mine routed, enemy units rout more, I hunt down the routing units with the cavalry archers. At last all of them rout.

This was a pretty exciting battle sometimes because of the setbacks (routing units) and my attempt to kill their general...

[s0meguy]

Ok this battle was pretty epic...



I first annihilated the first army with cavalry alone, then attacked their second army from the front with heavy infantry on spearmen and the rest just attacking the infantry. Then I went around their army with my cavalry, charge into their rear and kill their general at some point. Then I crushed them and they started routing. If you want to know how the battle went look at the map, the reinforcement army came from the north and the battle took place where most of my units are standing. All of the general kill tabs on the left are the enemy generals... Yeah, any leftover generals you may have are a good replacement for any normal cavalry. 20 general cavalry>60 of the best heavy cav in the game

[DenniZ]

Ok this battle was pretty epic...



I first annihilated the first army with cavalry alone, then attacked their second army from the front with heavy infantry on spearmen and the rest just attacking the infantry. Then I went around their army with my cavalry, charge into their rear and kill their general at some point. Then I crushed them and they started routing. If you want to know how the battle went look at the map, the reinforcement army came from the north and the battle took place where most of my units are standing. All of the general kill tabs on the left are the enemy generals... Yeah, any leftover generals you may have are a good replacement for any normal cavalry. 20 general cavalry>60 of the best heavy cav in the game

Wow only 448 men lost, thats pretty good fighting!

[s0meguy]

Wow only 448 men lost, thats pretty good fighting!

Thanks... that was my 10 star uber faction leader, so morale was extremely high I think... especially combined with the traits of the other generals.

[tup]

Around 100 Bodyguards also did a good job I daresay.

[Ham the Pharoah]

Oh, you want some epic victories then?











These are all on H/H difficulty with the English

[s0meguy]

longbows... fire, when they are weakened charge cavalry at them, then they rout. not so epic if you ask me...