Dominating in your Campaign battles(?)

[Emperor Tom]

Hey guys, just took some pick of my currnet Carthaginian campaign and was wondering if you ever had crushing victories in your camapign. EVEN with inferior numbers. Were your men well trained, were they heavily upgraded? Show us your pics (through spoilers). Or throw up a vid even! Here are some of my pics, and vids all of the same battle which was loads of fun too!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3yiQvUlQF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-gCSeQvsNI

[Dave Strider]

That is hilarious, the Carthaginian General running with his tail between his legs, and he probably gets command stars for that victory.

[Emperor Tom]

That is hilarious, the Carthaginian General running with his tail between his legs, and he probably gets command stars for that victory.

Ya, I really didnt care if I sacraficed him as long as all the units routed when need be. What was cool is that He was the only unit left in the bodygaurd. BUT MY ELEPHANTS won me the victory! I never expected the basic elephant units to be so effective, but in someways they are better than War/Armoured elephants because the archers up top can cause friendly fire if you are no careful which gets hard on large scale battles and such!

[|Sith| Max]

or maybe because unlike human players the AI is too dumb to fire flaming arrows at the things?

[leseras]

Maybe they were retarded enough not to fire at your elephants! Btw nice victory, elephants in an enclosed area=pure ownage.

[Emperor Tom]

They didnt open fire with flaming arrows because I conquered Rome before the Archers were even recruitable for them. Velites were the only missles they had...

[jukeness]

I destroyed what was left of Gaul which was 2 settlements, and all of spain which was 7 settlements with faction leader with 7 upgrades and a full army of hastati and equites. I didn't retrain because this was after the Gaius thing. My faction leader is 71 now and i'm just gonna let him govern a settlement until he dies.

[Delta21]

I like the baby elephants because they are smaller than the normal ones, thus faster+more maneuverable. They are also cheaper to recruit and maintain if you have a poor economy(the difference in upkeep and cost between War and Armoured elephants is a lot less than that between the normal elephants and the other 2)

[Bigous Dickous]

Love that picture of yours, will have to take more screenshots when playing and post some of the better ones on here .

[Aegrim]

I have a Seleucid army that's been all over my empire expanding the boarders. It's on it's third great general now, a lot of the units have 1 gold V of experience.

Up against the romans now, I'm hoping they'll go down fighting like bastards alone against 4 or 5 stacks.

Reminds me, i can't remember if i've removed the unit limit that always results in "re-enforcements delayed"

How do i do this again? google isn't helping too well.

[Agent Miles]

Emporer Tom, I don't have any pretty pictures, but how is this?

(RTW with latest update, no mods, VH/VH, huge units, pre-Marius reform, single player)
The Scipii obeyed the Senate’s will and took the rebel town of Apolonia. I built a fort garrisoned by one under strength unit in each of the three passes leading down to the town and disbanded several peasant units so that the population quickly passed the 2k threshold allowing a port, etc. The Greeks attacked the southern fort with a large force. My spy was able to give me good intel on their units. The stack besieging the fort was led by a one star general with nine militia hoplites, two mercenary peltasts, two peltasts, a peasant unit and three militia cavalry. In reserve was a stack with another militia hoplite and three peltasts and a second stack with a hoplite and a peltast.
My force at Apolonia consisted of Julianus the Brave (six stars, a national hero and faction heir), one Cretan archers unit, three Roman archers (one with only 75 men), three Family members, an Equites, four Hastati and two mercenary hoplites. Thus, I had superior cavalry and archers although I must attack a force that outnumbered mine. Some of my units had bronze or silver weapons and an experience level or two but no substantial technological edge. I took the entire garrison and attacked.
The terrain of the battlefield was a small valley in the middle of my position surrounded on all sides by steep slopes. The highest ground was to my front in the area where the Greeks would start. The battlefield was not wooded. I decided to position my force in a long column at the top of the slope on my left. All of the cavalry was to my front, then the archer units and finally the infantry arranged with two hastati, then two merc hoplites and finally the other two hastati. I intended to outflank any Greek force on the high ground. To my relief, the Greeks showed up on the slope opposite to my position with one militia cav on my left, then the peasant unit, a line of all the hoplites and to my right the other two militia cav. The Greek general was in the center and the peltasts were lined up to the rear.
My units pivoted in place to face the Greeks, as my column transformed into a line. The infantry would move down the hill slowly while the archers demoralized the units to my left with fire arrows. All of my cavalry rode around to my left, staying on the high ground. One FM chased off the militia cavalry unit (who are a skirmish unit of mounted peltasts) and eventually routed them in combat. My other mounted units outflanked three hoplites. These units eventually routed along with all of the peltasts. The remaining Greek line of hoplites slowly moved down to meet my infantry. The Greek militia cav to my right did not attempt to flank as they were in skirmish mode. The two hastati on my right and the Greek cav exchanged missiles. Now, I sent all my cavalry down the slope into the rear of the Greek hoplites as my infantry engaged their front. This was the decisive moment. Their leader quickly routed and all of their hoplite units were subjected to fire arrows and surrounded, as a chain rout ensued. The reserve stack of one hoplite and three peltasts showed up too late to affect the battle and were slaughtered. The Greek cav fled. I inflicted over 2600 casualties for a loss of 273, mostly general’s bodyguards that regenerate, although one FM died.