What "OHH :wub:!" moments you had??

[KnightOfPortugal]

I'll tell mine first


I played Retrofit with the Units addon mod as Portugal. I had taken the entire Iberian peninsula, France, Italy, and North Africa including Egypt. The rest of the map looked like this: Russia had taken over Denmark and Scandinavia, Scotland ruled the British isles, The Byzantine empire had their traditional territories, and the rest was Mongol/Timurid property. So the Timurids and the Mongols had made an alliance. Mongols ruled over Russia, Hungary, Germany and that stuff, while the Timurids ruled over the mideast. I was fighting on two fronts: Holding the Mongols back with success, and the Timurids, whose economy I crippled by blockading their ports and raids on weak-defended cities, and holding off their declining armies. When I was on the brink of dealing the final blow to the Timurids by sending an invasion force of three stacks, the Mongols declared a Jihad on my capital Paris. Ok, I didn't worry because there was no chance they'd breach my well-organized defenses at the river Rhine and partially river Danube. When I had taken half of the Timurid settlements and seeing them falling appart, I didn't fear that Jihad at all.

Now here's the turning point: My capital, and all the surrounding cities and citadels were like only defended by few troops. What do I see next turn? Two fleets near Toulouse, whose fleets? Two Timurid and Mongol fleets, and what was that? Two huge Jihad armies heading for my city. The Timurids had the typical Mongol/Timmy units, some Jihad units and two elephant-leftover units from their initial invasion. The Mongols had a powerfull stack entirely made of mongol units...


Well, it took me 30 turns to get them back out and reclaim my cities in France. They never took my border cities, however, which was the reason they never fully pushed me back to Spain.

Ah, well, good fights, good fights...

[modog]

awesome.

I think the nearest i can get to that was during an england campaign in SS 6.1. I had the entirety of the British Isles including Ireland, but had lost Caen to the French. Scotland was gone, Ireland was gone. I reduce my home forces to minimum for keeping order, and build up 4 full stacks on the south coast, with 2 half-stack fleets to carry them over. I invade France and the French-held low countries, taking Rennes, Caen, Antwerp and Angers in the space of 2 turns with minimal losses.

In the next four turns this happens...

Storm - decimates both my fleets, who both happen to be in the same bit of coast... - I am reduced to 4 ships plus change.

Excommunication - I had been told by the Pope to stop attacking france, but whilst kicking them out of my newly reconquered territory, i accidentally went too far and chased them into their own lands, thus failing the Pope's ceasfire mission: excommuncation occurs.

Rebellion - due to my sudden excommunication, the cities' public order collapses. Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dublin all go into the red loyalty bar. Dublin rebels entirely the next turn, and there are riots in Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

Invasion - 2 medium sized danish armies appear near York and Nottingham. They besiege me, and because I have defended my settlements so lightly, capture them the next turn..

Total War - The Pope declares a Crusade on London.



Laughter - I laugh lots then quit in disgrace.

[modog]

Oh yeah and I forgot to add that by the time the Crusade was called the French had recovered amazingly well and laid siege with good, experienced armies (with decent generals) to Angers and Antwerp

[The Noble Lord]

Never really saw the Timurids go all the way to Spain.

[Ishan]

Never really saw the Timurids go all the way to Spain.

Me neither only saw them upto eastern Europe and middle east.

[zcylen]

Me neither only saw them upto eastern Europe and middle east.

just now the mongoles have joines a jihad against cordovaI hope I can get a pic of that...
if they make it that far

[The Noble Lord]

Me neither only saw them upto eastern Europe and middle east.

That's right, Timurids would go as far as Ankara and then stop, they would never cross into Europe. And from the Southern flank they would happily attack Egypt and then stay there for a while. But I never saw them cross the entire North Africa and reach Moorish Spain.

[Ishan]

That's right, Timurids would go as far as Ankara and then stop, they would never cross into Europe. And from the Southern flank they would happily attack Egypt and then stay there for a while. But I never saw them cross the entire North Africa and reach Moorish Spain.

Yep. In technical terms it's impossible to go that far coz both mongols and timurids are hording factions which run after only certain settlements marked with horde_target.

[zcylen]

in my current game something strange is going on...maybe is something common,
in my previos games I played western factions: England, France, Venice and from east the bizantines.
I almost never have real wars against mongols and timurids.
but in the few battle I almost always was defeated

this time I played Egypt. I forget about the rest of the world and built i strong empire in the holy land to finally kick mongols
as they deserve...but nothing happened!
only one stack, which was defeated. than later i was notified they conquered russia, after that the timurid arrived to Russia too
causing Russia , Polonia and even Denmark to fall....
meanwahile I am now abandoned to the corner of the map

[Mercuri]

It has to be the time when the byzzies betrayed me. I was trying to recreate the ERE(with an army that captured 20 settlesments with some little "help") My relations were perfect, we had only a small border at the west balkans plus a small castle near bagdad. i was on my way to capture the last sciliy settlement in cairo. And the byzzies attacked me out of the sky. i was so mad that a rampage of elephant art came crushing from epirus and exterminating every byzantine city all the way to jerusalem that i needed to win.

[homefry]

When I had my first battle/siege, I didn't know the destructive power of archers. The enemy had 4 units of archers... I think it was peasant archers.

They sent in 1 unit of peasants with the battering ram and I had some light cavalry and I sent my cavalry out the gates to attack the peasants. I came within range of their archers and 1 volley decimated my cavalry... real eye opener.

[Yinafra]

first time playing Islamic nation I called a random jihad on Lisbon to test a jihad. I expected the moors to take it but oddly the Turks sailed a massive invasion force of 5 ships with 5 full stacks. the Iberian peninsula was soon completely taken over by Turks and the french were defending their front lines while England killed em in the north. Meanwhile i killed all the Turks in the east.

Oh and the Timurid's and Mongols are programed to react to jihads like Turks or Egyptians are. Mongol calls 1 they will attack as if they were Turks or moors. No matter how far away they will try to get there. another bug with the AI

[H Con]

I've mentioned this one in an earlier thread, but nvm:

Playing as Scotland, M/M:

Crusade called on Antioch, sends a General, with a HUGE army, by boat, through Gibraltar, across the entire Mediterranean, disembark (at this point, 1/4 of my army had deserted), press end turn, witness my entire army disappear, "suspicious death" message drops down the left side of the screen, Hungary takes Antioch.

[Dave Strider]

I was playing as the Danes and at war with the HRE. I had an army of Viking Raiders, Heavy Infantry, and Archers, with my king leading them. I flanked the German army with my King and charged their general.

That entire battle I only lost 5 men:
2 Viking Raiders
1 Archer
1 Bodyguard
and my King.

My king wasn't a fast rider

[zcylen]

i was really hoping the mongols to sail all over to cordova in my current jihad
but the ship stopped at cirenaica and then was sunk

[homefry]

The first battle bug I ever encountered was awesome. A full stack army came to siege my city and I only had a few units of archer, some spears and a ballista unit. I sally out and send my units around to the back of the enemy and use my ballista to take out 30% of the army. Then I use my archers to take out the other 50% and make sure to whittle the whole army evenly so each unit has the same number of people to cause a mass rout. Then I rout the enemy and the captain becomes a famous general.

[modog]

also - another ohh moment - first time playing SS6.1

Took a small raiding force to capture an English town whilst playing as Denmark. A few units of infantry, a few archers, a unit of horse. One unit of Ballista...

Rock up infront of the lightly defended town (York, I beleive it was) knowing the not-too-far-away large army of spearmen and knights, led by a pretty good general, would not be able to do anything as I quickly take the town, pillage it, destroy all the buildings, then jump on my boat again. All in the space of one turn.

Ah... Ballistas ineffective against walls.... stuck outside York for a whole turn - army attacked. Army pretty much dies. Raid fails...

wub.

[Punic Hoplite]

So basically you can't kill them?

(Downloading MTW2 at this moment , after a long time being a die-hard Rome fan )

[Ishan]

So basically you can't kill them?

(Downloading MTW2 at this moment , after a long time being a die-hard Rome fan )

U can kill them by killing or assassinating all their generals on the campaign map.

[Punic Hoplite]

Sounds like a pain lol. Let's see how my first campaign goes and see how far I last. First faction suggestion?