what is your favorite momment in a battle

[Yakov]

Whats your favorite part of the battlle

[Janitorius Adeptus Maximus]

I'd say when my cavalry smack right into the rear ends of the enemy's best soldiers (who are being occupied by my own infantry) and rout them as a result.

[Ulf]

I enjoy fighting in a battle where numerically I shoudn't win. And half way through the battle it still feels like i'm not going to win. But through some form of clever maneuvering or redirection, their units start routing. Man that feels good.

[Hader]

Chasing routing units always is satisfying :tooth:

[philip augustus]

i personally like it when I lose or when i fight a very long battle then I lose but in the process take a **** load of enemys with me, this one battle i had lasted like a half an hour straight i fought off three or four small armys of carthagians when finally a small reinforcement army came with a lot of elephants needless to say i lost but that was a good moment.

[StickShift]

i like it when the enemy general gets brave and charges head long into my phalanx, resulting in a quick and painful death followed by the whole enemy army routing en masse. its even better the enemy general is on a chariot because his whole unit will usually be butchered by my hoplites/pikemen without me taking a single casualty. always fun...

[boofhead]

Well I play RTRPE with BI.exe.
The other day I had 1 bastarnae & 2 Thracian infantry defending a town with no walls attacked by a full stack led by a 7 star general. The imposing enemy army advanced in formation but their mounted general just stayed well to the rear in safety. I realized my units and the town were lost no matter what so I thought 'Stuff it' and sent them on a suicide mission against the general. They destroyed him before the army wheeled about and slaughtered them. It was a worthwhile and noble death for those 3 gallant units (kamikaze style).

Generally, then, I enjoy unusual or surprise events, whether I win or lose.

It was my strategic stupidity that allowed a full enemy stack to take the town, but it was my tactical manouvre that deprived them of the best general they had.

[Oxberger]

Depends(playing RTR)

Horse Archer Army: When a circle is formed around the last few units running for their life, and how my general laughs at the casualty comparision(usually 80:1 in favor of me)

Phalanx: When I pin the enemy and my peltist prepare to flank the unit

Romans: Right before my infantry throws it's precurers.

[Rhinosaur]

My favorite moment in a battle is the one after you start and set up your battle line and just before the enemy joins battle with you. The feeling of anticipation before a battle enters the combat phase is a great one. Depending on the odds, you don't really know how it'll turn out, and that suspense is what this game is all about to me.

[Severous]

When fresh hidden troops spring into action against the tired enemy.

[Kraut]

My favourite moment is when the enemy is pinned down by my main battle line and either my assault infantry flanks them or my cavalry charges in from behind. I often pause before, move the camera in a good position to watch the decisive attack, and then let things go.

[jw1089]

my fave part is running fleeing enemies down with my young, inexpierenced generals who i dont sent into combat. the fact that they can order ppl to fight but not fight themselves is quite funny to me. its also funny when you get a new guy to become a general at age 16, and he can immeadietly assume command of thousands. im 16, so i try to picture myself doing that commanding actually on the field

[El_Greco]

when the hell breaks loose : I mean when everything has to be thrown in battle (you and the enemy) and you don't have any order whatsoever and you just have to hope everything works out . I play very hard battle difficulty so I have to do this a lot to win and I'm enjoying it. I love hell (and the slaughter followed )

[Arbaces]

Hehe... cavalry charges from behind phalanxes and skirmishing phalanxes with horse archers!

[Valerius Maximus]

again a cav charge from behind, or when the battle is very evenly matched and some of my units are routing and there's a possibility of defeat and then your reinforcements show up behind the enemy line.

[The White Knight]

In a long and huge field-battle: when a devastating cavalry charge, not necessarily in the rear, breaks a flank and allows you to encircle the remaining opponents.

[Pelayo]

my fav part actually is before the battle stars.preparing my formations and putting a strategy together even if in most cases the AI stupidity makes it unnecessary.

[olly]

When the AI is probably going to kick your butt.

Every unit is comitted or the reserve is too small and the AI has actually flanked you or done something unexpected. Usually your general is dead and you're outnumberd .

You have that painful moment when you have to decide whether to get who you can out of there or try one last effort like flanking with missile units or skirmishers who are out or ammo :hmmm: .

Used to try one last move time and time again until I realised Roman infantry is not going to be routed by a bunch of slingers slapping them on the back. Now I usually run like a dog and sacrifice what infantry can't be extracted .

[boofhead]

When the AI is probably going to kick your butt.

Every unit is comitted or the reserve is too small and the AI has actually flanked you or done something unexpected. Usually your general is dead and you're outnumberd .

You have that painful moment when you have to decide whether to get who you can out of there or try one last effort like flanking with missile units or skirmishers who are out or ammo :hmmm: .

Used to try one last move time and time again until I realised Roman infantry is not going to be routed by a bunch of slingers slapping them on the back. Now I usually run like a dog and sacrifice what infantry can't be extracted .

I like that post. You corrected my earlier one. That is my fave moment in a battle!

[Virridovix]

My favorite moments are a combination of the setup and the battle. When I've managed to manuver or setup a unit planning to accomplish a specific task and the flow of the battle lets it happen - for example:

when my hidden lancers are bypassed in a small woods and head out to hammer the enemy missle troops

when my mass of spearmen plug the breach in the walls long enough for my missle troops to take their toll

when I actually time a javelin volley just right at a charging cavalry unit - ie before they run over me...

when I utterly win the scissor/paper/rock match up of RTW and I have light cav slicing into missile troops while my spears pin the cavalry, axemen wade into their spears and artillery targets their command groups