Most stupid thing u have ever done

[ScarletSorceror]

My worst just happened. I was defending a captured French city. I had a lot of spears, some longbows, two bombards a ballista and my general. The French had quirte a nasty army - lots of armoured knights, a ballista, peasant archersd, crossbow militia a few heavy cavalry. They were on a hill overlooking my town. I'd taken out their ballista with my bombard (new tactic - hadn't thought about destroying the equipment), and my general had flanked their missile troops and routed nearly all of them. I left my General safely at the rear of the map ready to mop up any units that routed under artillery bombardment. Or so I thought...

Shortly thereafter I was told my General had been killed. There was no enemy unit in sight. It was then that I realised - my General had been killed by a misfire on my own bombard that sent the missile a quarter of a map from where it should have been. That's why I am posting here instead of playing.

Sorceror.

 

[gaunty14]

Kind of stupid, but also "following orders". Back in the day when I was playing vannilla MTW2 as England, I had conquered most of Europe and the Timurids were sweeping across the Middle East and the Crimea. The Pope (who obviously doesn't like me) orders me my faction hier to retake Jerusalem which I had recently lost as part of my colonies in the Holy Land.

So with great sadness I bundled my faction hier and another full stack off to the holy land. Only to be met by a huge Timurid fleet so I quickly disemarked in Egypt and decided to go by foot. My navy was crushed and my stacks caught site of the vast horde (in one screenshot there were no less than 30 full stacks). My faction hier and the crusade army was butchered on the barren desert slopes. Twas a rather epic battle. I had about 2,000 men up against 15,000. I managed to kill 5,000 so I was quite content with myself and the hier died well.

 

[Palandiell]

Kind of stupid, but also "following orders". Back in the day when I was playing vannilla MTW2 as England, I had conquered most of Europe and the Timurids were sweeping across the Middle East and the Crimea. The Pope (who obviously doesn't like me) orders me my faction hier to retake Jerusalem which I had recently lost as part of my colonies in the Holy Land.

So with great sadness I bundled my faction hier and another full stack off to the holy land. Only to be met by a huge Timurid fleet so I quickly disemarked in Egypt and decided to go by foot. My navy was crushed and my stacks caught site of the vast horde (in one screenshot there were no less than 30 full stacks). My faction hier and the crusade army was butchered on the barren desert slopes. Twas a rather epic battle. I had about 2,000 men up against 15,000. I managed to kill 5,000 so I was quite content with myself and the hier died well.

sooo, how did the fight against the timmys continue?

 

[gaunty14]

A very long and drawn-out campaign tedious campaign. Sadly I was at the mercy of the pope due to the happiness penalty that results from being excommunicated. Also the save got corrupted

 

[Macunaíma]

A very long and drawn-out campaign tedious campaign. Sadly I was at the mercy of the pope due to the happiness penalty that results from being excommunicated. Also the save got corrupted

So many sadness in just one post...

 

[LordJax]

Just last night I broke my main install folder in a misguided attempt at modding the game and playing about with modleDB file , ok bit stupid I hear you say but not kill your own king with a ballista bolt stupid, but should of made back ups, I did and I had but then in a frenzy of hard drive cleaning prior to a fresh install I threw out my game saves and emptied my recycle bin. I've had medieval 2 since its release gutted.

 

[UndrState]

Well, that does suck - think of it as starting with a clean slate, you necro.

 

[Rijul.J.Ballal]

I broke the CD, ohhhh woe is me...

 

[veljus]

I broke the CD, ohhhh woe is me...

How could you??

 

[Veliky Kaiser Theos]

As the Timurids, I sent a full stack of elephants via boat to America on a jihad, in order to get rid of maintainence costs. Most deserted on the way because of how long it took to sail there.

 

[Kataphractos]

Noticed I had a plague in Alexandria, so I decide to move my governor with decent stats to Jerusalem by ship and some heavy cavalry to Cairo to wait out the plague (Jerusalem didn't have a governor, so I figured it could use some management). A split second after hitting End Turn, something dawned on me...

put my heavy cavalry in an ambush position and then completely forgot about them, which resoulted in losing the whole unit to AI spearmen.

This is why I hate fighting in forest terrain.

 

[Sar1n]

So many occasions of "bah, my garrison can handle that".....

 

[Kataphractos]

So many occasions of "bah, my garrison can handle that".....

Or you're in the field and attack an enemy army where the odds are 4:1 in your favor and you decide to autoresolve because you don't feel like fighting it out...and you suffer a Crushing Defeat.

 

[TheWanderer]

Or you're in the field and attack an enemy army where the odds are 4:1 in your favor and you decide to autoresolve because you don't feel like fighting it out...and you suffer a Crushing Defeat.

I think that is the biggest downside of playing Hard/Very Hard difficulty, you have to command personally even the tiniest battles. Even if you attack a couple of units of low-level spearmen with a full army, autoresolving sometimes appears to have sent your cavalry head-on against them.

Last night I was besieging a Scottish castle as Norway. Since they had reinforcements (some 6 units, pikemen, highlanders and a unit of light cavalry) which would enter the map behind me, I deployed my army to meet their reinforcements first, before I assault the castle. Their light cavalry was quickly routed and since my cavalry was busy I did not even try to chase them, additional 20 border horse inside the castle would not make much of a difference. While I was busy wiping away the rest of their troops, the Border Horse rallied and attacked my nearest units - catapults which I had left behind. One crew managed to survive but it was not enough to break a wall and I did not have any other siege equipment.

 

[William the Marshal]

Crusades campaign as Kingdom of Jerusalem. I managed to take Cairo, only to have it rebel the next turn. The garrison (maybe 8 units) retreated right into the middle of 2 Egyptian stacks. They both attacked on the next turn. I decided to be a coward and stuck my line of spears in a corner with archers behind. Then I used my general and a unit of Templars to wipe out the cavalry and most of the missiles of the first stack. Meanwhile there was an Egyptian infantry line advancing on my spears. I looked at them, saw some typical crappy light units and a few archers, and figured I would leave my spears in the corner to receive their charge. I focused on micromanaging my cav for a few minutes. Next time I checked, half of my spearmen and a third of my archers were dead. The Egyptians had several javelin infantry mixed in with their crap spearmen and used those and the archers to decimate my stationary spears while I wasn't looking. I finished off the first stack, but probably 1/2-2/3 of my cav and half my infantry was dead, with a full stack of several generals, Mamluks of all flavours, and even some half-decent infantry. I suicide-charged everything I had left at them, but my general died on contact and most of my spearmen routed before they even got close.

 

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

I lost the CD.

 

[Maklodes]

Kind of stupid, but also "following orders". Back in the day when I was playing vannilla MTW2 as England, I had conquered most of Europe and the Timurids were sweeping across the Middle East and the Crimea. The Pope (who obviously doesn't like me) orders me my faction hier to retake Jerusalem which I had recently lost as part of my colonies in the Holy Land.

So with great sadness I bundled my faction hier and another full stack off to the holy land. Only to be met by a huge Timurid fleet so I quickly disemarked in Egypt and decided to go by foot. My navy was crushed and my stacks caught site of the vast horde (in one screenshot there were no less than 30 full stacks). My faction hier and the crusade army was butchered on the barren desert slopes. Twas a rather epic battle. I had about 2,000 men up against 15,000. I managed to kill 5,000 so I was quite content with myself and the hier died well.

Hah. Never occurred to me that the Timurid navy could be much of a threat. It's all dhows, coming after gunpowder and thus after people have gun holks/lanternas right? I guess if they have *enough* dhows, though, they can take on anything.

 

[Maklodes]

I was Sicily, and the Council of Nobles told me to take Nicosia. I clicked on Nicosia, and saw that it only had one unit. I wasn't sure which one -- it was a question mark -- but I figured that it was irrelevant: I'd just get a few units together (a general, a couple of mounted sergeants, some armored sergeants and Italian spear militia), and get there and auto-resolve a siege and take the fortress. I didn't bring any pavise crossbow militia, because I figured it wouldn't matter.

I got to the island, and then I realized -- yes, there was only one unit in the garrison of Nicosia, but there was another army wandering the countryside of Cyprus -- an army that included plenty of Byzantine cavalry and Vardariotai.

They attacked my army and picked it apart. My infantry was helpless against the horse archers, and my cavalry wasn't much better off. I managed to catch a few of them and killed almost as many as I lost, thanks to the durability of generals' bodyguards (I think I killed about 210 and lost about 240), but my whole army was destroyed and my general was slain.

Should have known better than to try to invade Byzantine lands without taking any archers or crossbowmen.

 

[Kaiser Nonsense]

The dumbest thing I've ever done was charge cavalry into spears, the advisor told me it was a bad idea but I just didnt listen.

Pikes are a problem, spears kill, 2, 3 knights on a charge, while the knights kill 50, 60 men, so not a problem.

My stupid thing was the first campaign I've ever played, two things in fact, got excommunicated and the Pope called a Crusade on my settlement, what did I do? "Abandon ship men", remove a full stack from there afraid of the Crusade and left it empty. The second thing, was keep fighting until year 1500 with only militia (facepalm).

 

[AntonisTheGreek]

As the Timurids, I sent a full stack of elephants via boat to America on a jihad, in order to get rid of maintainence costs. Most deserted on the way because of how long it took to sail there.

1.Can Timurids do jihad?
2.How do you play as Timurids?

 

[✠Ikaroqx✠]

Loosing the identifier code (XXXX-XXXX-XXXX), so if I want to install Med2 on another computer, I'll have to buy the game again

 

[Discord1996]

Loosing the identifier code (XXXX-XXXX-XXXX), so if I want to install Med2 on another computer, I'll have to buy the game again

You can simply type 1234-1234-1234-1234 and you can install it without any problems You just wont be able to play Online

 

[Discord1996]

Loosing the identifier code (XXXX-XXXX-XXXX), so if I want to install Med2 on another computer, I'll have to buy the game again

 

[Silverheart]

1.Can Timurids do jihad?
2.How do you play as Timurids?

The Timurids count as a muslim faction, so yes they can do Jihad once they have a settlement.
You can play as the Timurids by modding the game to make them playable - I suggest you pose this question in the modding section, or at least in another thread, since it would be off-topic to talk about it here.

On a more relevant note, I once tried to do an all-castle campaign as Sicily (i.e. you only use castles and castle units, and convert any settlement that you can to castles etc.). It was mostly as an experiment, and it turned ugly pretty fast since (obviously) my economy crashed within the first 50 turns.
As I continued to struggle on with the same Sergeant Spearmen, Peasant Archers and on rare occasions Norman Knights, my power in comparison to the other factions diminished, causing pretty much everyone to declare war on me.
For the sake of my own dignity, I gave up the experiment...

 

[UndrState]

On a more relevant note, I once tried to do an all-castle campaign as Sicily (i.e. you only use castles and castle units, and convert any settlement that you can to castles etc.). It was mostly as an experiment, and it turned ugly pretty fast since (obviously) my economy crashed within the first 50 turns.
As I continued to struggle on with the same Sergeant Spearmen, Peasant Archers and on rare occasions Norman Knights, my power in comparison to the other factions diminished, causing pretty much everyone to declare war on me.
For the sake of my own dignity, I gave up the experiment...

Now that is an interesting challenge. Wonder if it's even doable at all - maybe have to sustain your economy with raiding tactics (sack towns and give 'em back or rebel them), and even then you'd probably have to really cycle through the cities around you. If you do succeed, you'd probably turn the lands around you into waste, and you'd have a lot of enemies...

 

[Nzg]

Medieval 1 expansion had vikings, that worked a little bit like that 2 starting settlements and high upkeep army, you had to sail over through settlements and pillage. Could work in this case.

 

[thoran]

Back when I just bought M2TW Gold, I was playing as Byzantium on crusades and saw the invasion by Venice. I was like "meh, my byzantine infantry crush everything" (I was playing on easy because I was terrible back then) Next turn there are 3 stacks and I began to get a little concerned. Next turn they sieged Constantinople and it boils down to a massive fight in the center. Once I had crushed the first stack with only my Faction Leader (Heir died earlier in an attempt to destroy trebuchets), an onager, and some peasant archers remaining. Next thing I know I hear the words, "Reinforcements arriving"...... I then proceed to quit the game and delete the save.

 

[SupplyWagon]

Perhaps not the most stupid, but most recent of my stupid moves: I need to take a city without any artillery. Fortunately, the garrison consists of just one general, so there wouldn't be any infantry to man the walls. As I get close, the enemy stack approaches me. Since I have enough movement points, I decide to crush them in a field battle and then siege the city unmolested. I easily destroy entire stack and, being chivalrous, decide to relase 800 enemy infantry and archers I captured.

They spawn in nearest enemy settlement

 

[Friedrich Ironhide]

Sending a couple stacks of my best units on Crusade. Sailing through the Mediterranean the crusade ends and I forget about those two armies in route for about 80 turns or so.

 

[UndrState]

Sending a couple stacks of my best units on Crusade. Sailing through the Mediterranean the crusade ends and I forget about those two armies in route for about 80 turns or so.

I've done something like this, with the heir (a good one) and one of my best generals to boot.