Your biggest demo battle

[Pocus]

Originally posted by SnallTrippin:
I have seen units of 100 or so of heavy infantry and cav from ulm, maybe you people just need to set higher AI standards...

the start of my post is :

"On impossible, Ulm fielded 680 units against Mictlan."

find the difficulty level I always use in these words.

[Keir Maxwell]

I have't had time to play much but in my first game I fought and lost against a Marignon army of ~600 with an army of ~80 Abysian humanbred HI supported by a Fire Drake and a couple of heroic dudes inculding an Anathement Dragon. We lost but we did rout all their close fighters bar the summer lions - that left about 250 archers etc.

Guess who killed/routed the most of their guys? I reckon it was their archers

In the same game I saw a couple of armies of 2-300 but they didn't attack me.

The setting were impossible AI's and indie strength 5 - which seems a good level.

cheers

Keir

[ November 06, 2003, 05:44: Message edited by: Keir Maxwell ]

[licker]

Yikes, just hit an Ulm army of over 500 with at least 100 Ulmish HI Granted the rest was LI and short bows (there were maybe 20-30 x-bows), but those 100 HI were enough to wipe out my front lines of swamp gaurds and a handful of wights...

I might have won due to my superior mages, but a lucky couple volleys of x-bows killed off my two best marsh masters (read equiped ), and then I started routing like crazy! I had zerked serpants trying to get to his rear, but there were too many LI in the way and they got bogged down and eventually killed, though they did a fair amount of damage to the rear of the LI mass.

This was around turn 30, and we had both moved in on the same undefended Abysia province. I was hopeing to get my prophit down with his serpent army (~25) before tackleing the Ulmish hoard. As it was he smacked my main army pretty good, and I had to hunker while I moved more mages down to replace my losses. I lost all my undead too, so I'm not sure if I'll risk him again. He lost ~300 units, but most were the chaff, I'm sure he'll build them up again quickly

Anyway, as others have noted, Ulm had a damn temple in every province I could see, so I was having trouble pushing my Miasma on him, even after I freed up the cash to start pumping temples everywhere I could get a cheepie priest.

[Pocus]

nice to hear that Ulm can field something else but milicias!

[licker]

Originally posted by Pocus:
nice to hear that Ulm can field something else but milicias!

Yes it is! Though I did not check through his territory to see if he had any additional forts. Maybe he lucked into some sites that come with a fort and that's why I saw so many HI. He had ~15 provinces at that point, and in the 5 of his I saw there were temples, infact as soon as he grabbed that Abysia province he put up a temple in it.

There was no cavalry though, maybe he had it elsewhere

[Nerfix]

Not the quantity but the quality

PS: That shot is from a network game

PPS:Guess who won that battle?

[-Storm-]

Originally posted by Nerfix:
Not the quantity but the quality

PS: That shot is from a network game

PPS:Guess who won that battle?

Uh, it really depends on the situation.
Sometimes quality > quantity....sometimes quantity > quality....you know.
Especially in Dominions.