Worst mistake in your campaign?
What’s the worst mistake you’ve made so far in your campaign? Was it breaking an Alliance, sending a general headfirst into pikes, or just plain ignoring a threat? Do tell, mine is this:
I was playing Briton for the first time and decided to use the island as an advantage. Before even starting my assault on the main land I used a few years building up an army and establishing a decent economy. After that I took my huge army with three of my generals and launched a full scale assault on the Gaul’s, in the mean time I sent my diplomat to make peace with Germanic Tribes(who I would have to eventually destroy).
The onslaught was fierce, within a few turns I had already concurred three Gaul villages. With each conquest I would slaughter there population and destroy every building in the settlement, I would then extract my whole army without even leaving a garrison. My attacks were too quick for the barbarian armies to counter me just yet, then as I pushed to there capital and met there two grand armies.
A fierce battle took place mostly between primitive Barbarian Warbands, but mine proved superior and were able to route the first Gaul army. My generals chased down and slaughtered all of the cowards, including the kings’ son. But out of the woods came another army, this time the King himself. He had a more valiant death and was not killed during the route but instead fought gallantly to his death. Most of there forces were destroyed as they ran from the battle field, and with that I figured that I had vanquished the Gaul’s for the most part. I took up there capital and put all of the population to death.
There were only three Gaul cites left that I knew of, the one in the heart of Spain, and the two above Italy. These settlements were far enough from mine so I just established a good defense on my border settlements in case the broken people decided to exact vengeance on my armies. Now I should have been more concerned with hunting the Gaul’s down until I had done away with every last one of them, but instead I turned my focus to the other barbarian tribe, Germania.
A mistake that I should have never done, I opened the war on two fronts when I could have avoided it. My initial campaign against Germania did not go over well, I was able to capture two of these cities with great loses on my men. I had a lot of trouble with there pikes, which I was not used to fighting. Most of my troops and supplies were heading towards the east to reinforce my garrison in the two cites I had captured; I also had armies around the borders to protect from my new German enemies. Then something happened the Gaul’s started spilling in from the south (Spain) and began to besiege my cities, once they set siege to three cities in one turn.
This turn around had me screwed, on one hand I was dealing with ferocious pikemen from Germania inflicting great loses upon my troops, it took a lot of resources just to hold the two cities that I had captured from them. Then endless numbers of Gaul’s began to assault the underdeveloped cities with no generals guarding them.
At this instant the battering rams of the Gaul’s are rattling my gates and my captains have gathered all men able to wield arms to the center of the towns and are prepared to fight till the death if need be, I will not allow retreat. Any troops garrisoned in a city are going to live or die with it, there will be no surrender. It is now my job as a faction leader to gather the resources and mobilize my army so I may secure my borders in time, so that not everything will be lost.
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Originally Posted by Fuji
