Epic Fail

[darcsabre]

So I'm not sure how many other people have been in similar situations, but I've had quite a few epic fails playing TATW. In my most recent, I tried to take an OotMM city garissoned by only a general with a few drawven warriors and axethrowers. However, I didn't plan for the garrison script, and with the addition of rienforcements a turn away, the battle looked pretty even. I figured I'd give it a shot anyway, and imagine my suprise when two Troll squads rushed out of the gates to say hello Needless to say, epic fail. Anyone else have some good ones?

[bentlemp]

I might very well be the king of epic fails because I tend to become impatient with the 'slow grind' of TA:TW. As it were...my favorite has been as a Silvan heading east to what I thought was a 'lowly little output' owned by Mordor. So I immediately loaded up my archers and militia and marched straight there at the onset of the game. I think I had 3 of each plus Celebron. Of course the Mute dude popped up and I was thrown assunder.

[Downey]

I usually get that as playing as good, I usually kick the crap out of them, or they kick the crap out of me.

[Muffer Nl]

I forgot to check on my Citadel guard so they got flanked, not so bad yet but it were 5 units of my 10 unit army and they were decimated by the Rhûn cavalry who lost about 2 units...
Opps

[axnsan]

Getting 60 fountain guard guards killed by a unit of orc band.

[MasterBigAb]

I just waned to trample down some silly orcs with 5 units of rohan medium cavalary (and a general)...
the orcs haven't had any chance, with two archer units and three normal orc bands, so i decided to charge from the front and the flanks at the same time, so all might rout...
souds logical and easy - but.....:
they weren't as silly as i thought:
They just kept running with their archers towards me and i was happy that they even wouldn't kill one of my soldiers cause they were to near to fire and my cav was almost at them...
suddenly they stopt just before i rushed into them, as i recognized it....
they put hidden sacks in the ground - it was build on their whole front, and as you can imagen it was tro lat to stop my horses....so 4 units of them just died in less then 5 seconds, against 2 silly orc archers without killing one of them...and i just decided to let my general flee....
epic fail

[King Canute]

who is the "mute dude" that your elves attacked?

[chriswhite]

Getting 60 fountain guard guards killed by a unit of orc band.

Lol that made me laugh!

And that Uglag must be pretty tough to steal all those rings from the ringwraiths

[King Canute]

maybe he just asked really nicely

[Misha97]

Epic fail. Entire army broke and ran on the sight of 2 squads of trolls!

Two Squads of
TROLLS!!
MY MEN!

[Staffen]

Fighting as the Dwarves, my reinforcement army with 2 units of catapults and 4 ballistae in it decided not to target the enemy archers or the general that were standing some distance from the fight. Instead, they decided to target the engaged lines of infantry. Three of my own generals die in the first 2 volleys, everybody routs, the reinforcement stack still wins the day, but .... rebels on the next turn, since their general got himself killed in a fight with the enemy general

[axnsan]

That's why you never let reinforcements to the AI.

[Louis Lux]

Bridge battle against Rhun commanded by my general Irkenwind the bastion, easy win, but their first catapult shot killed my general

[MDT]

After about 15 turns of mordor decorating the area around e. osgiliath with orc corpses I finally had half a stack to spare and decided to attack nearly undefended minas Morgul. Well forgot about the garrison script ... I couldn't turn back because of movement points so I stayed ... In the AI turn another full stack of mordor appeared from the east and attacked me ... The Black numenorians of the general nearly killed my army alone ... well back to piling orc corpses at osgiliath

[Staffen]

Meh, playing High Elves just now I made a full swoop around the Eriador regions. The OOTMM part of the campaign went fine, since Eriador, the Silvans and the Dwarfs were all eager to help out ... so I decided *why not attack Isengard*.

I gather up all the happy campers I can spare and voila, a 3/4 stack lead by 2 generals. I have them carefully hop from forest to forest, avoiding detection by the Uruks heading south and south-west to plant their swords in a Rohirrim pony or two.

And whaddayaknow, it actually almost worked. I reach Isengard, manage to get a spy in, lay siege, notice the spy is too lazy to open the bloody door and press 'end turn'. The garrison script kicks in, but I'm confident my archers will turn any sallying orc into a pretty dead pincushion.

WOOSH. A full stack of pikemen, crossbowmen and warg riders appear out of nowhere, literally nowhere, marches up and attacks me.

And then all the Elves die. Horribly.

Bah. Even though it was an absolutely epic fight, I must say I'm still disappointed that this mod won't allow for any other strategy than 'slowly-grind-your-way-through-dozens-of-enemy-stacks'.

[Disastras]

I sent a group of my mediocre Silvan Elf units to attack an apparently empty Mordor when BAM!! This happened: Check this generals stats...

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I personally think the script is great! Vanilla TW wasn't good at defending cities. "If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job." - Tom Landry

[Australia]

I had a 2/3 stack of Rohan Riders and Eored Horsearchers, and was fighting a full stack from Isengard. From the outset it was bad, lots of trees and the slope of a hill against me. Isengard had a lot of Uruk-hai archers, and I happened to forget about steaks.

They sent most of their melee troops in another direction to kill my infantry reinforcements (and they succeeded), in the process I was trying to deal with their archers with my cav, so I decided I'd just charge them. But steaks are annoyingly unobvious in a forested area, it took me a while to figure out why I suddenly had lost over half of my cavalry in one charge to archers.

I still won though, coming out with about 20 men still alive of ~1000 riders and ~1000 infantry.

[Renown]

I sent a group of my mediocre Silvan Elf units to attack an apparently empty Mordor when BAM!! This happened: Check this generals stats...

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I personally think the script is great! Vanilla TW wasn't good at defending cities. "If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job." - Tom Landry

thats not a script. most likely you just missed him, or he was hiding.

the sript doesnt make the new generals or armies the faction leader.

[Disastras]

thats not a script. most likely you just missed him, or he was hiding.

the sript doesnt make the new generals or armies the faction leader.

Oh, okay. I must've just missed that sneak. Hard considering the stink he looks like he puts off. Double epic fail.

[2-D Ron]

I sent a group of my mediocre Silvan Elf units to attack an apparently empty Mordor when BAM!! This happened: Check this generals stats...

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I personally think the script is great! Vanilla TW wasn't good at defending cities. "If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job." - Tom Landry

Who is this Ugluk? B.A Baraccas?? Look at all the Bling he has.