Your most badass victory?

[.L.]

Mine has got to be when 301 mercenary spearmen(on shield wall formation) held a hill against 1651 Milanese(mostly cavalry, but quite a bit of Italian militia and Italian spear militia). In the end I ended it has soon as they all routed, but I didn't get a heroic victory even though they killed around 700 guys, instead I got "close" victory for losing 90 guys.

[Kine]

I would've autoresolved just looking at the numbers... good thing you didn't. By the way, why didn't you? did you know you'd win?

[.L.]

I would've autoresolved just looking at the numbers... good thing you didn't. By the way, why didn't you? did you know you'd win?

They didn't have any crossbow's if they did I would have just autoresolved, I was guarding a mountain pass into Florence. I hoped that they would have taken out a lot of greenies, even if they didn't win.

[tudor93]

I would've autoresolved just looking at the numbers... good thing you didn't. By the way, why didn't you? did you know you'd win?

well, maybe he wanted to kill as many as possible before he loses, at least that's what I do ...

[Kine]

well, maybe he wanted to kill as many as possible before he loses, at least that's what I do ...

If a defensive battle looks like a sure loss I would go manual and take out specific targets but with only 300 spears against those odds I wouldn't have thought they'd do much. It's different if it were 300 Horse Archers. - prolly win it easy actually but spearmen? Awesome victory in my books.


As for me - my one and only Timurid encounter is probably the baddest engagement. it was vanilla vh/vh with a minor mod using BBB and XBAI. The problem with BBB is the rebelling nobles and in that campaign all of my experienced nobles had rebeled just as the Timmies showed up (the bastards). Only the king and a handful of random nobles were at hand. Took 2 seperate open field battles to destroy the Timurid's army forcing the FL and FH to hide in the woods. I think the scale, amount of time and micro management needed to win made it memorable. No high ground to exploit + crappy reinforcement AIs - my stack had to do the impossible and it prevailed.

[tudor93]

If a defensive battle looks like a sure loss I would go manual and take out specific targets but with only 300 spears against those odds I wouldn't have thought they'd do much. It's different if it were 300 Horse Archers. - prolly win it easy actually but spearmen? Awesome victory in my books.

well, you never know ! This happened to me too last week, I was playing XGM (mod for RTW) as Rome and my little stack (1 FM, 3 hastati (light infantry), 1 unit of velites (javelin) and 1 unit of spearmen) which was meant to reinforce one full stack of mine that was siegeing a carthaginian city was attacked by an almost full stack of Roman Rebels. Of course the chances were slim for me to win and I was like "oh well I'll send another one to reinforce, I hope my general survives though". So I formed a thin line with my hastati and kept my spearmen back, my hastati used every javelin they had before engaging the enemy; my single javelin unit done their work well and used all their javelins on the enemy killing like 40 men from a unit. I don't know why the AI didn't engage with all his army, almost half of their army was like just walking there and there from the right flank to the left flank while their fellows where being hold down by my 3 hastati units and flanked by my FM and by the spearmen .... so you know what happened ...the half that was engaging mine got slaughtered then his general charged in my army and he quickly died too ... the other half routed so I won ... I chased the survivors and the AI was left with only like 100-200 units
the AI army was composed of hastati, a few town guards, 1-2 principes, some cavalry, slingers and javelins

[Jasbob]

The battle that comes to mind is when i played as England and was at war with Spain. I moved a stack (3longbow,1cannon,5 swordsmen,2 mailed knights and my commander, I believe it was around the 800-900 pop placement) to close to spainish city to which then made the spainish stack and the troops from inside the city come out and attack me, Between them they had around 1900-2000 (can't really remember the troops but some kind of foot soliders,crossbow and horse units,cannons,2 commanders and cata's).

The game then went into the battle screen and i could not believe my eyes. 1 spainish stack above me and another all the way at the bottom of a hill, i spawned on the edge of the cliff to which gave me perfect defence against anything coming behide me, To which i was very happy.

I was able to hold off the first stack rushing down against me and killed 90% before the second stack was able to get up the hill towards me and by that time i had moved my longbow and cannon units and rained fire down on them. By the time they got close (with heavy lose) my units were ready for the impact to which i drove them back and slaughted them down with my mailed knights.

[Diamond]

Hmm...
When I beat 4,000 Germans with 1,000 Danish.
Overuse of cavalry is helpful against Germans ;D

[.L.]

Hmm...
When I beat 4,000 Germans with 1,000 Danish.
Overuse of cavalry is helpful against Germans ;D

Nice man.

I topped myself BTW
The 2 losses are friendly fire.

I suspect that my guys are descended from the Spartans.

[Kelvinator]

Not much to boot here but I defeated 2 full stacks if Mongols with 1 full stack as Venice on a field battle. I was able to engage them in mountainous terrains where my Venetian Archers were able to rain fire and death upon their superior archers. Their rocket launchers gave me some trouble even when firing up hill. I ran out of arrows after routing the first army and came pretty close to losing me general (which could have costed me the battle) when I charged everyone downhill to fight the second army.

[Nazgûl Killer]

My most badass victory has to go to one of my biggest battles in my Venetian campaign, having faced off against the Mongols in a 10-year long war, stopping them at their tracks, preventing them from taking cities and destroying them alongside my Kwarezmian allies.

I had 3 of my legions (Prince, king and three other generals) on Kwarezmian soil fighting against the Mongolian foe, and in one battle I had one of my legions alongside two full stacks of Kwarezmian allies, against five Mongolian stacks.

It was the single toughest battle I've had in that campaign, it was near impossible. We had around 4000-5000 troops, whilst the enemy had around 10,000. I thought we were done for, but it was the single biggest battle of the Mongolian war, so I had to fight it. I found myself soon protecting a high-ground mountain against the Mongolians, my catapults raining hell down at their massive army and my archers blasting their foes to oblivion.

I had quite a few heavy infantry and spearmen units, and I placed them at both sides of my archer formation - Where there is passable terrain.

I stood upon a mountain which was impassable, aside for two passes directly to the top, to me, which were relatively narrow. I had crowded those with my forces and my archers and catapults stood between the passes, shooting and shooting. My Kwarezmian allies came from right behind me, and their archers helped me rain down hell on my foes, while their cavalry passed my lines to push down at the foe.

At the end of the battle, I had lost 250 men or so, and killed well over 3000 soldiers. My Kwarezmian allies lost together around 1500 men and killed something along the lines of 4000, along with two generals of the Mongolian army. That battle won the war, and ensured that no Mongolian scum would ever set foot in Europe. However, sadly, my Kwarezmian ally's two full stacks were left crippled by that fight, losing quite a few men, and I had to hold the fort for a significant amount of time before reinforcements could arrive, I was forced to assist my Kwarezmian ally in two defensive sieges and around 10 different outfield battles.

[.L.]

My most badass victory has to go to one of my biggest battles in my Venetian campaign, having faced off against the Mongols in a 10-year long war, stopping them at their tracks, preventing them from taking cities and destroying them alongside my Kwarezmian allies.

I had 3 of my legions (Prince, king and three other generals) on Kwarezmian soil fighting against the Mongolian foe, and in one battle I had one of my legions alongside two full stacks of Kwarezmian allies, against five Mongolian stacks.

It was the single toughest battle I've had in that campaign, it was near impossible. We had around 4000-5000 troops, whilst the enemy had around 10,000. I thought we were done for, but it was the single biggest battle of the Mongolian war, so I had to fight it. I found myself soon protecting a high-ground mountain against the Mongolians, my catapults raining hell down at their massive army and my archers blasting their foes to oblivion.

I had quite a few heavy infantry and spearmen units, and I placed them at both sides of my archer formation - Where there is passable terrain.

I stood upon a mountain which was impassable, aside for two passes directly to the top, to me, which were relatively narrow. I had crowded those with my forces and my archers and catapults stood between the passes, shooting and shooting. My Kwarezmian allies came from right behind me, and their archers helped me rain down hell on my foes, while their cavalry passed my lines to push down at the foe.

At the end of the battle, I had lost 250 men or so, and killed well over 3000 soldiers. My Kwarezmian allies lost together around 1500 men and killed something along the lines of 4000, along with two generals of the Mongolian army. That battle won the war, and ensured that no Mongolian scum would ever set foot in Europe. However, sadly, my Kwarezmian ally's two full stacks were left crippled by that fight, losing quite a few men, and I had to hold the fort for a significant amount of time before reinforcements could arrive, I was forced to assist my Kwarezmian ally in two defensive sieges and around 10 different outfield battles.

That IS awesome, you must have a REALLY good computer to be able to handle 15000 men.

[Nazgûl Killer]

It's an all-right computer, it actually surprised me. I think it knew just how important that battle was, so it did its best.

To be honest, I toned down the graphics a tad bit before the battle, and it was still a bit choppy, but nothing I couldn't handle. I just zoomed in a lot to avert lag.

OH! And just so you know just how good Monoglian morale is, despite heavy losses and despite fighting uphill, they kept fighting (Almost) to the bitter end, with only a few units routing, and the battle took around an hour. an hour.

[.L.]

It's an all-right computer, it actually surprised me. I think it knew just how important that battle was, so it did its best.

To be honest, I toned down the graphics a tad bit before the battle, and it was still a bit choppy, but nothing I couldn't handle. I just zoomed in a lot to avert lag.

OH! And just so you know just how good Monoglian morale is, despite heavy losses and despite fighting uphill, they kept fighting (Almost) to the bitter end, with only a few units routing, and the battle took around an hour. an hour.

Yeah Mongolian morale is a pain in the ass.

[Nazgûl Killer]

An hour!!

[Enarec]

Well, I don't really remember this battle well (was about a month ago on vanilla), but I was defending a large town as the Spanish against the Mongols (full army). I had just sent some forces there to delay the mongols advance and hurt them. My forces were 2 units of Tercio Pikemen, 5 Pavise Crossbowmen, 3 Chivalric Foot Knights, 2 Mercenary Spearmen. My crossbowmen weren't that good on the walls, but they still did something. They were pretty effective when the mongols got on the walls using Siege Towers and Ladders, though, but still lost the walls, letting the very weakened mongol infantry on the ground. My Tercio Pikemen had in the meantime gotten slaughtered (Pikemen? More like Swordsmen in vanilla ) and the remaining spearmen and knights were barely holding out against the mongol cavalry. They managed to dispatch the mongol infantry, thankfully, but I had already lost 1 unit of spearmen and 2 units of knights. The remaining knights were also slayed soon, leaving only the spearmen to withstand the onslaught. They fought on valiantly and in the end won, with only 4-8 men remaining, the still numerous mongol army fleeing, certainly due to the valiant last stand my men had shown. I still don't know why the routed. Seriously, only a few more men had to be cut down and then they could have won

Now, when I know a lot more about what to do and what not to do in battles I'm appalled at how I won.

[Gazz]

Antioch, Egypt, 10 Halberd Militia and 6 Nubian Archers.

4 Timurid stacks, 'nuff said.

[Silverheart]

I´ve had several, and have difficulty specifying.
The most badass victory I´ve ever had, however, must have been when I defeated three full, well-balanced Papal armies in a row in a single turn (they attacked me one after the other when it was their turn, so all I could do was stand there and defend) with the tattered remains of a Byzantine army - I don´t remember the exact numbers (123 keeps coming back to me...) but I know my army had less than 300 men, and most of them were units at half or less strength. That´s roughly 6000 Papal troops of highest quality defeated one after the other by a ragtag collection of less than 300 Byzantine veterans.

My latest badass victory, though, is either when my Lithuanian army (in Teutonic campaign) won in a field battle against 4 opponents at the same time,
or when a German army of 1200 (mostly spear infantry, though) was routed by two units of Italian Spear Militia and two units of Pavise Crossbow Militia.

[Willowran]

i gave up the outer walls without a fight (the trebuchets used up all/nearly all their ammo on the outer walls, one of the reasons i abandoned them) then slammed them the second group of gates.
my computer was operating at a 1-2 second lag... took me three hours before they ran away.

i don't remember the casualties, but it was a heroic victory.

[Diamond]

You people make me feel horrid.
I won at a 1:4 ratio and feel good and some people here beat 6,000 Papals with 123 soldiers.
-.-