Coolest Bridge Battle

[kozakk]

Ok so ive had probably the most entertaining battle ever. In real life this would have been super strategic, but honestly it was just a fun massacre.

heres what happened about a 3/4 stack of my Rus forces got attacked by the Hungarians on a bridge, now they had a full stack of much better units, some knights good infantry such as men at arms, mostly heavy inf spears and heavy cav. I had some Chude millitias(javelin men, spear militias, 2 Bulgarian brigands, 1 archer militia, 1 cross bow unit, 2 trebuchet units, 1 HA unit, and general.

So on my side there were a nice 2 hills on either side of the bridge so i put my 4 archer units on the hills which really made a beyond perfect angle of fire for shooting at the bridge. And my trebuchets right behind them. Put all my infantry into 2 thick lines at the bridge bottleneck, and my cav right behind the inf.

Well the Ai as usual just charged all their guys through (not that thers much else to do when attaking in bridge battle). But mu trebuchets had such a nice angle that many of the shots landed right on the bridge, it was frightening so many men bunched up with threbuchet hit after trebuchet hit just melting them. Then i i turned on fire arrow on my archers, and it was just the coolest thing i have seen in M2, it was absolute inferno trebuchet fireballs, fire rain coming down on a mass of strong infantry and cav charging forward. So the Hungarians finally make it past the hellish bridge run and reach my lines as my javelin men fire they are greeted with a facefull of spears, and the few men remaining engaged my extremely cool looking (rusichi units) berdiche axmen and flee soon there after. Although a short melee did ensue as they had good high moralle units, as my archers continued to rain effective fire right at the bottlenecked Hungarians.

Sadly i forgot to take screens, but i don't have any accounts on image hosting sites anyway. So ya just though id share, because this could very well be my favorite battle even though i mostly had low quality units.

Cheers.

[Cartman]

lol awesome! bridge battles can be so much fun, as long as your not on the "wrong" side of the bridge of course

[sbroadbent]

lol awesome! bridge battles can be so much fun, as long as your not on the "wrong" side of the bridge of course

You're never on the wrong side of the bridge if you have siege weapons with a longer range than your enemy

If they initiate the battle, they will more than likely try to cross, though if you do some decent damage with siege equipment you can enrage them enough to attack, which just adds to the casualties.

I had one bridge battle with atleast 4 Trebuchets and 2 bombards. When they can get some lucky hits, it can be disastrous for the AI's morale.

[castorsia]

Cool...Just imagining this battle makes you feel awe.

[Asgath]

I've orchestrated a few custom battles of these. Three quarter stack of Longbows a few trebuchets and a Monster Ribault and they won't get far. A single unit of Pikes or heavy spear men can hold out the bridge if they're needed at all!

[Ochiee]

coolest bridge battle for me (enjoy the most though.... )

custom battle ....

fill the unit slots of both faction with ...

Mangonels.

beware of CTD

[Fr0stY]

I had a campaign where I was controlling Toulouse and it was constantly under siege. To defend it, the key was 2 catapult units behind the doors. When their ram took down the door, I had 3 spear units waiting and as soon as a huge ball of enemy units coming from the entrance formed in the middle of my spear circle, I would activate the catapults and the balls of fire would fall in the middle of the enemy core, didnt take much rounds before they were running back : P
Of course this only worked if I had good infantry on the walls and they didnt have siege equipment : P but still, in my opinion, this is the most effective form of defense when there is a bottleneck of any kind, just like bridges