Luckiest early game ever?

[irisheagle]

Hey guys, just wondering what your luckiest early game incident was (or late game if you wish to).

For me it was during my Scotland Campaign, turn 2 England and France declared war, and England sent its entire army to take paris. Of course leaving its settlements completely undefended. It nearly backfired though, as by the time I reached the last territory, London (Englands beachhead had been overrun by the Moors somehow) I only had a quarter stack left, and Paris was one turn from surrendering, with William's invasionary force at 2 full stacks, and Paris at a quarter stack. I had no seige equipment, and the chance of a spy opening the gates was 16%. Luckily for me the enemy decided it was a good idea to sally forth, and i used to opportunity to get my troops to the town square and take the town. To make it better, England's Stack of Doom was now a muarading rebel army, carving East, away from me.

And then the Moors steamrolled through me

[avion365]

i had 3 units of heavy pike milita at a bridge and a full stack of french troops came at me. luckly all of them where cav. hence a heroic victory becuse my pike wall did not break like usual.

[Stolet]

Hm once I got attacked by a French army around 1500 men strong. A usual AI army with heavy infantry, spearmen, heavy cav, trebuchets, you name it. And I was the Moors, had 2 units of Camel Gunners So the French somehow just stand around during the whole battle, with the chances like 9:1 on their side. I start shooting my guns 5 minutes before the time runs out, kill around 200 French soldiers and get a close victory lol.

[Valandur]

Thats not Early Game ever Stolet. You had Camel Gunners, that don't sound to 12th century to me.
One time as England, Scotland just stayed in Edinburgh, didn't move to Inverness or Dublin, so I casually trained a few assassins and the Faction was destroyed by Turn 25.

[Stolet]

Thats not Early Game ever Stolet. You had Camel Gunners, that don't sound to 12th century to me.
One time as England, Scotland just stayed in Edinburgh, didn't move to Inverness or Dublin, so I casually trained a few assassins and the Faction was destroyed by Turn 25.

Well the OP said late era too if one wishes, and I found it a pretty lucky situation

[Valandur]

Well the OP said late era too if one wishes, and I found it a pretty lucky situation

Yes but it was in brackets making it invalid. Brackets always mean its invalid HAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Karnage]

My luckiest game was playing as Portugal, early era in Vanilla. Portugal is split in 2 between the powerful Moors and Spain, both being at war with each other, they didnt want me to intervene and offered peace, beside, I was dead broke with no said army to fight those 2 powerful foes. However, I was an opportunist and waited for the right moment to rise in Iberia. That moment arrived when the pope called a crusade in Jerusalem, The Moors and Spain made peace and the Spaniards sent their best units with their best general to fight off in distant Jerusalem, that is when I betrayed Spain and destroyed thier defenseless lands, shortly after, I was strong enough to take out the Moors all this in less then 30 turns, fun fun

[Paladin94610]

In vanilla, Year 1097, As Venice on M/M difficulty, The doge and the his army consisting of 3 Italian militia and 1 peasant archer unit, seeing low garrisoned Milan as an opportunity to seize, besiege the city. The Count of Milan gather a force of 2 Italian spear militia, and 1 Italian Militia and march for Milan to break the siege in 1097 summer. In winter he arrive the besieging army and attacked. I withdrew and break the siege. A peasant archer unit, the garrison of Milan attacked me, the Count's army ass reinforcements. I ordered the Doge's 47 bodyguard force to charge the archer unit before the reinforcements could join it. I killed all of them with no casualties. The turn of tide begins. The reinforcements arrived and waited in the forest and hide to make my archers useless which are on the hill and can shoot with pretty much range and firepower. So I lure them with my Doge unit by going near them and withdrawing to make them come forward. They reached in the range of my archers and I shot them down with extinguished arrows, and on the last few volleys, I use fire arrows to demoralize them. When my army march towards them downhills they retreated back to the forest to make a defense. My forces run down and the two lines met. My forces have numerical superiority, and quality superiority as 3 units of It. Spear Militia and theirs being 2 It Spear militia and 1 It militia. And they have also lost the archer unit while I have archers thrown in a melee. The count and doge have the same number of bodyguards of 46 if included themselves the number would be 47. The fight goes on for a long time and they don't rout as fast as I expect because they are veteran troops returning from the conquests in France. Needless to say, some time passed and the count killed and the enemies rout and I got a clear victory.

Aftermath of the battle: After it, I got Milan and sack it my rep goes down to dubious. I retrained my men. And muster another army to garrison it. And march to Genoa and have a costly close victory and also got acess to Florence. After the cities are safe, they make considerable profits which support much in building up a good Venetian Fighting force to retake Zegreb from HRE and march for Vienna, and Nuremburg and Bern, Innsburg, eventually destroyed Milan and HRE by taking Frankfurt from HRE and Metz from Milan. Now I am at war with Danes. The greatest rival.
That victory give me acess to last long my Venice campaign which is 6th time I played for I lost the last 5 one by bankrupting, and having pressure from HRE and Milan.

[Nicolaos]

i always have a licky early game playing vanilla as england!
i send a spy to the scottish capital, take all my troops, wait until the king and his son are in the same city to the same time, and then i attack them!
one turn later i there is no rivalry in britannia anymore

[Muagan_ra]

My gruelling Sicilian campaign had some choice moments - many of which concerned a General Gillio, and his brave band of warriors on Sicily, Corcica. He ambushed and outwitted (against all odds) Moorish and Milaneese armies much, much better than his own forces - the brutality necessary did make him a very naughty boy, and he accrued a fearsome entourage which included an "infamous berzerker".

[Rakoua]

After driving the Moors out of Iberia in my m/m Portugal campaign, I decided to turn on Spain and unite Iberia. For this, I created 2 stacks of mostly spear militia and pesant crossbows, as javelin cav isn't my thing. After losing one battle (it lagged for some reason so I just quit it) I merged the two stacks into one full stack and captured Toldeo with minimal losses and then marched to Leon. A few armied on the way seriously depleted my weak army to only half stack and there was another Spanish army near Leon. But with my spy in Leon opening the gates, I decided to strike. Leon had one general bodyguard (their king) and one spear militia, but the other army was considerably more powerful. The odds were against me. So I run into the city and send my spear militia to attack the bodyguard into the square, my general to circle around and attack the spear militia from the rear and my depleted Jinates (at like 5 men left) to take all of the gates before the reinforcements enter the city. Spain had a full unit of Jinates and they tried to enter trough the gate I used, but failed, so there was a race to the second gate, javelins flying over the wall. And I just barely won. Taking the last gate after that, the Spanish army could only watch as their faction was destroyed. I then send three full stacks to the British islands and am currently taking over England. So that was pretty lucky, if the Jinates routed or something then I'd die.

[Sparkshot]

I would have to say my luckiest early game would be as England. About 5 turns in Scotland sends an emissary to London to get trades rates. I agree and a turn later they board almost their entire army onto a ship that goes who knows where...possibly to take Antwerp. Edinburgh is their only province so I take my stack with Prince Rufus and siege it. Scotland is no more a turn later

[Kripox]

My last HRE campaign, easily. Everyone were lazy as hell, so I gobbled up tons of rebel cities in no time. Northern Italy was damn near empty, so I secured it and gained a massive income. Then France, England, Poland, Venice, Hungary and Denmark all die in one turn, leaving me in a state of . Conquered them and was pretty much a superpower with next to no resistance. Set my sights on the rest of the world and steamrolled.

[ItsADoneDeal]

I sort of pulled the 300 thing, haha. I had exactly 300 men (I was Venice), most were light infantry or peasant archers, and I defended my castle from, I can't remember exactly, but something like 1500-1800 Papal States men. No lie. I had my archers fire flaming arrows to burn their ram, so they had to climb up on seige towers and ladders. I put my entire army on the walls, archers, light infantry, and a few heavy infantries, and I killed the majority of them before the rest routed.