Largest battle ever seen?

[ScottishAdam]

The most I have played on screen at any one time was just over 14k.

2 of my armies + allies + the enemy. Turned out to be a massacre for the enemy and at one point everyone was fighting in a huge circle. Looked spectacular.

Anyone seen a bigger battle?

[TitaniumGladius]

I have a new £1200 PC and can't get it to run smoothly at over 10K men. The trouble is that this game uses only one thread of my 8 thread processsor (core i7 880), in other words it wasn't designed for multi-core processors. I also have for your information a HD 5870.

[ScottishAdam]

I have a new £1200 PC and can't get it to run smoothly at over 10K men. The trouble is that this game uses only one thread of my 8 thread processsor (core i7 880), in other words it wasn't designed for multi-core processors. I also have for your information a HD 5870.

I have the radeon 5870 too. Mine runs very well with around 10-15 k. When the graphics card is running fast it really is superb

[Eneru112]

Any way to speed up the game besides Cheatengine's speedhack? My large battles are way too slow.

[ScottishAdam]

Any way to speed up the game besides Cheatengine's speedhack? My large battles are way too slow.

What do you mean slow?

[TitaniumGladius]

What do you mean slow?

He means that the computer can't handle so many soldiers on the battlefield and the game begins to lag. Laging is when fps (frames per second) becomes so low that it pisses off the gamer.

[cenkiss]

38400.All peasant armies.

[Titus Maximius Thongus]

I was playing Roma surrectum. largest battle had my 2500 Romans against 12,000 Guals.

yes, it was awesome

[Plant]

It's rare that you can achieve large numbers, since the frame rate makes the game unplayable for most players, and harder still for a 4v4 that doesn't crash. Personally, the most I've ever played was a 4v4 large, and I couldn't control my units until most of the combatants were dead.

[LasmarkVorna]

My computer is fairly old, so auto resolve larger battles. That said, in Roma Surrectum I've had twenty stacks per-side in my Greek Cities Campaign against the Romans. That was pretty awesome.

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

My computer is fairly old, so auto resolve larger battles. That said, in Roma Surrectum I've had twenty stacks per-side in my Greek Cities Campaign against the Romans. That was pretty awesome.

Did you know that the maximum is 8 armies in a battle?

[Dave Strider]

Biggest I have had was around 4k men on my side, 6k on the enemy side. 'Twas epic.

[{GrailKnight}]

17k men in ultra scale, it was either a 7 or 8 player FFA... man that was laggy lol

[nhinhonhinho]

My largest!? Well maybe when i have 3 full stack of Sarmatian Armored Archers again 5 full stacks Huns. My first stack get destroyed completely (except my king) then my reinforcement arrive and take the fight

[r3deed]

all what I remember is that my men came to fight and then the enemy came . then we had a fight. then their reinforcement arrived. then we fought till I remained with a general,a dozen of hastati soldiers. later remained from my armies were few of everything. anyway all my men route except the general.there,when my reinforcement arrived. some of our light missile troops charged the enemy instead of throwing missile. my general contintued rally till the the battel ended. I won at the end but I really like the idea that they always arrive late like in movies.

[Necromancer]

The largest??? Well, the other day in my Greek campaign, I had just shipped a freshly recruited Corthinian/Spartan full stack (1 Armored General, 5 Spartans, 6 Armored, 2 H. Pelts, 2 Archers, 2 Greek Cav, and 1 Ballista and Onager. All with +3 exp and +1 weapons and armor) to Lydia to confront the Seleucids. I was giving them financial aid before to hold off the Egyptians, until I was ready to conquer them and prepare with the inevitable war with Egypt. I would've much rather have had the Seleucids (the weaker of the two) occupy Asia Minor, but they apparently didn't understand what 12 shipments 60,000 denarii was capable of. So, I had to knock them off before the Egyptians took their last three provinces (Cilicia, Lydia and Ionia), which would be crucial to getting my foot in the door of Asia, and to skyrocketing my economy to take on Egypt's military juggernaught. So, when my force reached the southern coast of Asia Minor, I disembarked them and had them advance until they ran out of movement points, just south of the Mausoleum. I took care of a few economic, and rebel issues and then ended my turn. When the Seleucids' turn came - BAM - 4 Seleucid full stacks came out of the fog of war, and surrounded me and engaged (the bastards couldn't send those armies to fight Egypt, right?). I forget the exact amount, but it was easily over 10k, not including my own force. When the battle started, only the army that initiated the attack showed up - I was pretty happy about that! So, the usual skirmishing began, and, due to my height advantage, my archers managed to out-range their Cretans! Then, our phalanxes locks spears, and the main battle commenced! It was a pretty tough fight, but my troops held firm. I sent my general up and down the line to keep the morale up, and sent my cavalry to deal with any attempts by the enemy to get at my flanks. After a few more minutes, they were on the brink of breaking. Then, the enemy reinforcements arrived - to the north, south and west. So, I took my units that weren't currently fighting, took them out of phalanx formation, and had them charge the flanks of the enemy phalanx. It worked! Their phalanx broke, and I sent my cavalry down the hill to take care of the dirty work. I then took my hoplites and formed a defensive ring at the top of the hill, and stuffed my archers, general, and artillery inside. I put my peltasts a few meters outside of the ring, easily within running distance, and hid my cavalry in the woods. The huge battle that came was... glorious... just glorious. I'd type out the whole tiff, but I'd be here for another hour, or so. I won the battle with about a 15% loss - The Seleucids? ... 85%. PWNED!!!

Here's a few screenies of the first battle!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

From the Seleucids' perspective


Bows Of Artemis raining death




Javelins away!


The Seleucid phalanx marches up the hill (They're militia, but they had like 6 exp and +2 weapons and armor each!)




The main battle commences


I lost ONE Spartan here


On the verge of breaking...


He got lucky...


...They didn't

[ScottishAdam]

The largest??? Well, the other day in my Greek campaign, I had just shipped a freshly recruited Corthinian/Spartan full stack (1 Armored General, 5 Spartans, 6 Armored, 2 H. Pelts, 2 Archers, 2 Greek Cav, and 1 Ballista and Onager. All with +3 exp and +1 weapons and armor) to Lydia to confront the Seleucids. I was giving them financial aid before to hold off the Egyptians, until I was ready to conquer them and prepare with the inevitable war with Egypt. I would've much rather have had the Seleucids (the weaker of the two) occupy Asia Minor, but they apparently didn't understand what 12 shipments 60,000 denarii was capable of. So, I had to knock them off before the Egyptians took their last three provinces (Cilicia, Lydia and Ionia), which would be crucial to getting my foot in the door of Asia, and to skyrocketing my economy to take on Egypt's military juggernaught. So, when my force reached the southern coast of Asia Minor, I disembarked them and had them advance until they ran out of movement points, just south of the Mausoleum. I took care of a few economic, and rebel issues and then ended my turn. When the Seleucids' turn came - BAM - 4 Seleucid full stacks came out of the fog of war, and surrounded me and engaged (the bastards couldn't send those armies to fight Egypt, right?). I forget the exact amount, but it was easily over 10k, not including my own force. When the battle started, only the army that initiated the attack showed up - I was pretty happy about that! So, the usual skirmishing began, and, due to my height advantage, my archers managed to out-range their Cretans! Then, our phalanxes locks spears, and the main battle commenced! It was a pretty tough fight, but my troops held firm. I sent my general up and down the line to keep the morale up, and sent my cavalry to deal with any attempts by the enemy to get at my flanks. After a few more minutes, they were on the brink of breaking. Then, the enemy reinforcements arrived - to the north, south and west. So, I took my units that weren't currently fighting, took them out of phalanx formation, and had them charge the flanks of the enemy phalanx. It worked! Their phalanx broke, and I sent my cavalry down the hill to take care of the dirty work. I then took my hoplites and formed a defensive ring at the top of the hill, and stuffed my archers, general, and artillery inside. I put my peltasts a few meters outside of the ring, easily within running distance, and hid my cavalry in the woods. The huge battle that came was... glorious... just glorious. I'd type out the whole tiff, but I'd be here for another hour, or so. I won the battle with about a 15% loss - The Seleucids? ... 85%. PWNED!!!

Here's a few screenies of the first battle!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

...They didn't

Interesting but not a very large battle by the looks of it

[Necromancer]

Interesting but not a very large battle by the looks of it

Well, that was only the first enemy force. I was a bit preoccupied once the three other armies showed up to join the party. Damn, I wish I remembered to take a few shots of that!

[ScottishAdam]

Well, that was only the first enemy force. I was a bit preoccupied once the three other armies showed up to join the party. Damn, I wish I remembered to take a few shots of that!

That would be useful

Nice battle though. You done well to win that

[Necromancer]

That would be useful

Nice battle though. You done well to win that

I'll have to remember next time!

Thanks! Yea, now I know how Alexander felt!