4vs2 Epic battle.
Now, it didn't start out as a 4vs2. It started out as a 4vs4.
Unfortunately, my Polish ally decided it would be wise to charge all his hussars (which was most of his army) directly into the enemy's stakes, which were put there at the very start of the game. I even warned him WAY before he charged them not to do it. I guess he was illiterate. Either way he lost over 500 men and got less than 100 kills.
The other ally was US, and he also did extremely poorly and mostly sat there while he got pummeled by about 10-15 artillery batteries. (Mostly mortars)
My last ally was French and he and I are friends are he's an excellent player.
The enemy were a mix of British, US and Dutch. They were very well entrenched and decided to spam mortars. Both my friend and I, realizing that our allies got massacred and our enemies were barely scratched, thought the battle was over and we had no chance in hell.
I went US and my army consisted of: One General, 4 cavalry, 2 horsedrawn artillery, 5 line infantry and 3 long rifles. It was my first time playing as the US, I typically go French and get much more infantry.
Our enemies seemed to have endless amounts of infantry. Really ridiculous. So anyways, I went to the farthest right I could and started to flank them. They moved troops into the forest to meet me, and I had a cavalry group keep their infantry busy while I marched onwards. I skirmished with some long rifles to draw their infantry out of the forests, but my enemy was keen on keeping the battle inside the forest, where they had the advantage.
I managed to charge unprepared infantry with my cavalry from the flank and rear, over and over. He put his men in square formation, I would withdraw and hit another unit, then ping pong back and forth between unprepared units as my troops moved forward.
His army looked huge to me, and it was mostly in the woods. I had no idea what his real numbers were until he did a bayonet charge on my frontline. One of my line infantry was fending off 5 lines of British and American mixed line. I had no chance. I desperately setup my horse artillery, loaded up canister and fired. Fired. Fired. They broke. They were too clustered and I got one of those very satisfying shots off. I held fire, cavalry charged them and they routed. Then I moved to a flanking position, but they just had so much infantry. It was impossible. My infantry eventually routed and I was left with some cavalry, general and my 2 horse artillery. At this point I thought that I gave a good fight and tried my best, accepting defeat, until I saw my ally, TheWeapon, with his French force (highly diminished and out of ammo) marching on the enemy's flank. He had taken out the entire left flank of the enemy. My enemies rallied to attack him while I setup my horse artillery on a clearing nearby. Fired cannonballs at his infantry to beckon them closer. My ally's French troops routed and they turned up the hill to charge my cannons. I held fire and switched to canister... hold...hold... FIRE!!!! And my cannons blasted their charging infantry to smithereens.
VICTORY!!!! And the kill:death ratio was staggering. It was anywhere between 4:1 to 3:1 for myself and TheWeapon.
Take a look at the replay, it was a pretty intense match.
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Originally Posted by Remo
"A pikeman, quick, let's charge with my general !"
as well as a few dozens of his ally men. 
Re: 4vs2 Epic battle.
