What is your greatest TW victory?

[Harvester of Sorrow]

Just post your greatest ever total war victory here

[Equilibrius]

My greatest victory was succesfully installing Rome: Total war Gold Edition after a failed mod clogging and editing that caused a major corruption deep into the data files and the registry.

Spent two days cleaning up and manually uninstalling, when i finally had the clean vanilla back in, it felt like a heroic victory, in fact, i think i should draw two crossing swords under my wheelchair just to mark that a major victory was won right here.

[Arbitrary Crusader]

Just post your greatest ever total war victory here

In Rome(I forgot what mod ) I was holding a bridge as Roman. Because Intel say that a large movement of
Gauls are heading to one of my city. When they came, I fought them off stacks by stack, but it because harder to hold, because they kept coming....and this was in ONE turn, so retrain is out.

During, the 5th(Final) stacks the Gauls faction leader was there and while holding them off, my whole army broke and thought defeat was at hand, but my general rally some mens and I was like"F all CHARRRGEEE!!"

The charge kill the faction leader which rout the gauls army.

I won, pause the game, put my two hands up and yelling " YEAH!!!"

My greatest victory was succesfully installing Rome: Total war Gold Edition after a failed mod clogging and editing that caused a major corruption deep into the data files and the registry.

Spent two days cleaning up and manually uninstalling, when i finally had the clean vanilla back in, it felt like a heroic victory, in fact, i think i should draw two crossing swords under my wheelchair just to mark that a major victory was won right here.

REP+

[Jezza93]

one load of hastati,one town guard and one load of velites and general,unmodded.
My lads were besieged in a palisaded town but the enemy army of 2500,against my 265,had 7 rams so I merely pulled my men back to a point where the enemy would be funnelled into one narrow stream,I used my general to take out three rams so that the AI wouldnt flank my men. But eventually my thin line of men were overwhelmed and routed leaving just the hastati holding the men off,so I had about a dozen velites and town guard,all cavalry dead. Then the hastati broke,the gaulese ran at my few remaining men,the last three velites were just holding on and suddenly...the entire enemy army broke,they'd had enough.

Oh and I took out the enemy general by sacrificing my own

[Arbitrary Crusader]

Damn, talk about a last stand....

[Tia]

Med: 2
I was playing as the French when I had been excommunicated for destroying the English for control of the Isles, so the pope called a crusade on Toulouse.
My army wasn't even a full stack when I had made a crushing victory over the crusader armies composed of
1. the Papacy
2. Spain
3. HRE (surprisingly they hadn't been excommunicated yet)
4. Denmark (never fought, but the were still apart of the crusade)
During the course of that battle I had, made the HRE lose strongest military power, killed the Pope, and killed the HRE's prince.
Edit: I may have over-exaggerated, I had one full stack and the HRE did not sen their prince.

[Dave Strider]

Undoubtedly a battle in Medieval 2.

I was playing the Britannia campaign as England, and after having stabilized my country I sent an army to Ireland to assist my beleaguered "colony". My army consisted of a General, 6 Longbowmen, 8 Armoured Sergeants, 4 Armoured Swordsmen, and a Trebuchet, on huge unit size, for a total of roughly 2,500 men. I land it and next turn I am attacked by three Irish full stacks, filled to the brim with Kern mercenaries and whatever the hell the axe wielding light infantry are called. Ceitherne or something like that. Anyways, their armies totaled over 7,000(!) men and I had to fight them all off. So I deployed my men facing the giant group, threw caution to the wind, and advanced my archers, backed up by flaming shots from my Trebuchet and protection from my Spearmen. They procede to fire all their arrows, and they butchered the enemy light infantry. Then, when their arrows were gone, I'd say that ~2000 enemies were already dead, so I sent my heavy infantry and spearmen forward, and then a bloody melee ensued. In the end, I won the battle, killing 4,500 enemies and taking another 2,000 prisoners. I lost around 700 Infantry.

[empr guy]

i cant help but think of a battle in empire, i marched my numericaly superior but qualtitativly inferior ottoman troops at the austrian army wondering if i could win, the austrians preceded to not fire, and when i unloaded a volly they proceded to reform their lines until all their units routed. Ahh, it was glorious.

On a more serious note, a battle i played as rome in the extended cultures mod at syracus was epic, i had two full stacks sieging a full stack of defenders but another stack was spawned as malita and they attacked me. It was an extremly bloody battle but i was able to overpower the first army, the second one had appeared across the field and arrived a bit later, i turned to fight it but my men were too beat up to finish it and the second army was marching onto the field piecemeal and i wasnt sure if i should just retreat, but finnaly my cavalry killed the enemy general who was all the enemy cav left. At that point i was able to rear charge the enemy and rout them, it was a great battle, too bad the version i downloaded was unfinished...

[Pharoah]

Well this wasn't realy a victory I was playing as the hatori clan fighting forgot the name and ashkaga clan and I was so close to defeating them

[irontaino]

Napoleon:

The Battles of Budapest
Factions: Ottoman Empire (me), Hungary vs Russia
Generals: Ottoman - Sun'Allah Nedim, Russia - Mikhail Kutuzov
Summary: I had liberated Hungary a while ago and it joined me and my other protectorates (Romania, Crimean Khanate) fighting Russia. Several Russian stacks were sent to reconquer. The first was met at the river where they tried to cross and were made short work of. After about two turns, my armies were mostly replenished but Russia sent three more armies to besiege Budapest, led by none other than Mikhail Kutuzov. I placed my artillery which included two 18-pounders two howitzers and an organ gun on the hill behind me, and moved my troops up. The Hungarians were arriving, they made a good distraction, but were routed by the reinforcements. Kutuzov was slammed by a howitzer and his soldiers, attempting to reform, became a disorganized blob with bullets and artillery being poured into it. The reinforcements were pummeled by the artillery and mopped up by cavalry.

[romanlegion13th]

had so many victorys cant rember

[beckyolt]

( It was in M2TW, Stainless Steel )


Battle of Bordeaux

XIII century Anglo-French-Genoese wars


KINGDOM OF ENGLAND ---------------- FRANCE/GENOA

Strength: 1500, (800-900 longbowmen, 600-500 infantry)

~3600, (1500+ infantry ,1000 militia, 600-700+ knights/men at arms, 300 Genoese crossbowmen)

Losses: 400 max , one battalion routed
~1400, ~1500-1600 ( 2900-3000 total)



The war was caused by the tensions beetween England and France : England demanded the territories of Normany , controlled by the French. The English kings claimed that, since they were descendents of William the Conqueror, they were the rightful rulers of Normandy. The English kings also wanted the profitable region of Flanders, controlled by the French just like Normandy. Finally war erupted.

The war was going very well for the British. after taking Brittany , Flanders, Anjou and Normandy, they planned to capture the castle of Bordeaux. It had a great strategical value : It was a huge castle capable of housing and training hundreds of soldiers in few time, and from there the English could take all of southern France.

The castle had a massive garrinson, but English spies reported that, very strangely, the garrinson had departed the castle and marched away, leaving only a small force in Bordeaux.

The English crown sent, then , about 1500 men - 800 to 900 experienced longbowmen, and 700 to 800 knights and men at arms. The army was commanded by the king's nephew. In the outskirts of Bordeaux, however, the English were ambushed.

The garrinson planned to lure the English army from Angers , and then crush it. If they succeeded, they could retake Anjou, Brittany and even Normandy. The French had about 2000 men , of which maybe 700 were knights and men-at-arms. The rest were militias and common infantry soldiers.

But with them there was also a bit smaller Genoese army ( Around 1600 ), with hundreds of the famous Italian militia, and three battalions of the dreaded Genoese crossbowmen. Together, both numbered around 3600 soldiers, with maybe 1000 mounted and dismounted knights, 300 genoese crossbowmen and ~2300
infantry and militia.

The English fought the battle on a hilly terrain. The allied forces planned to attack the english from two sides, forcing them to split their force.

But their plan failed: The Genoese hurried and attacked the English before the French were ready, and their crossbowmen and militia were cut by the English arrows. They soon routed. The Genoese men at arms ( around 300, none of them were mounted ) routed too.

The king's nephew, commander of the English army , ordered the archers to stop firing after the genoese routed, and pursued the routing soldiers himself, with his retinue of knights. Then he retreated and ordered his army to form up: They still had to deal with the French.

He predicted the direction the French would come from and planted stakes to protect his longbowmen in that direction. He didn't worry about the Genoese, since they had no calvary, except for their two generals' retinue, while most of their french allies' knights and men-at-arms were mounted.

When the French came they had no chance: Most of their knights failed in the attack, since many died in the stakes, and routed. The French prince died. Their commoners and militia routed, after a heavy fight with English soldiers and longbowmen.

Bordeaux was a complete disaster for the French and Genoese: They lost at least 3000 soldiers. The French prince died, as well as the great two genoese nobles who commanded the italian army. The English lost at maximum 300 to 400 men - mostly longbowmen. After that, they marched to Bordeaux and captured it, gaining a foothold for England in the heart of France.

@AAR-mode off

This was my coolest TW victory. I still remember it, after so many months

[triphammer]

numerous clan games i've fought for the clan i founded called HUNTSMAN.