Total War series

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So, Have anynthing to say about these games. IMO they are the best strategy/tactical games that has been ever produced in the market.

So how far have you guys have been gone into these games, what are your achievements? Feedback?

Here is my best battle I ever did, having in mind that my army is mostly light units, it was really hard and long battle. Cavalry saved the day :P

[Morfildor]

My most epic battle was with my French army. Ground troops with a bunch of scottish noblemen(archers)
Had a backup army that showed up after a while with cavalry only. Think I lost 100 units or something while the enemy lost 2400 or something. Think it took 1 hour to finish :P
Should be said it was portugal I fought against. He had 5 armies with mostly milita and javelineers. I would prolly be completely vanquished if my army of cavalry didn't show. It was a complete slaughter when they charged in their flank

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Omg, only 100 lost?! O_o Sounds epic.

Well, in my situation it was I had only single army (you can see basicly it all in there, only there was one more Tartar Lancer squad). By surprise I was attacked by two mongolian armies. I prepared myself in the defensive position, putting two squads of archers and spearmans (which were very weak, basicly militia) on the higher ground (you can see in the picture on the down left side of the battle map. Half of that high ground were covered with a trees, so after I put my archers and spearmans in place I hided the rest of my cavalry in the trees, basicly making them right on the side of front if enemy would have been attacking the infantry. Then I placed my general unit behind infantry and archers to draw enemy to that place (into an ambush).
It looked something like that



My army is red, mongolians is White.

So, the first surprise was the different directions they started to attack me, I didn't expected they would appear from the east (down of my battle map), I thought I will lure them into an ambush between my Cavalry and spearmans, at the same time harrasing them with my archers on the horses. The army on the down of this map was more far away than the one on the right, the right ones came first and sucessfully fell into an ambush, while not perfectly. Their support line was alittle harassment, because they were spearmans, and as you know spears are pain for cavalry. While I was trying to beat first army with my cavalry (infantry and archers in the same place), another army came dangerously close to my infantry and archers flank (from which if they would have been attacked, they would also get a geographical addvantage, so I sended all of mounted archers to harass them from the left heights, so they would not pass to our flanks. It was effective untile they finished their arrows. At the same time I beat the first army by killing their general and making them to flee. My general unit was basicly almost all killed, infantry and archers have been wounded alitle, my cavalry was been hidden in the forest again.

So basicly everyone was in their starting positions as before, the problem started when my mounted archers finished their arrows and got seriously wounded by enemy archers, few units broke through their lines and attacked us to the flank. I had to use my archers and what's left of general unit to defend the flank, while the rest of the army was on their way to attack the infantry. When first units clashed into my infantry, I released the cavalry. Basicly half of their units were in the traps, but not the other half. By simply maneuvering with heavy cavalry and recently made some light and weak (but still having some numbers to cause fear for the enemy morale) Mounted archers cavalry we surrounded them and used charge/retreat tactics, also because of they were much more greater in numbers we had to be very maneuverable between their lines, to not get caught between two of their units. Ofcourse the main aim was general unit, after few crushed archer units from behind, I at last got to him and killed him. Well, then few charges from the backs and whole enemy army was fleeing, having so much light cavalry it wasn't very hard to catch them all.


Lol, I am just in the mood today to write something

[Mathael]

A recent battle that I can think of was when playing Empire: Total War. I was Great Britain and was sending out a scout fleet to see if there were any enemies around the Coast of Brazil. My fleet ended up running into a whole fleet of Spanish war ships just waiting out there. They had several Third Rates and Second Rates (these are powerful ships with plenty of armour and guns) and I only had mere Frigates to fight with. Since firepower was obviously no match, I sailed my ships around until the enemies' ships began entangling themselves, then sailed in my fastest and weakest frigates straight into the middle of the mess. The Spanish started firing wildly and ended up blowing up most of my ships. But since my ships were straight in the middle of their fleet, they ended up taking down 3 of their most powerful ships in the blast and most of the others caught fire. Eventhough it was a lost, I still managed to cripple their most power ships and this in turn allowed me to finish them off much more easily in the next round .

[Morfildor]

Got to love it

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Damn... Sounds good. Though I still not got enaugh chances to get used with naval combat, still looks messy for me... Mostly fighting over the europe on the ground atm.

[Morfildor]

I found at first without sufficient economy that fighting large wars on more then one continent was rather hard. So I decided to totally wipe out americas first. When the french and spanish and there colonies were left I launched a massive invasion in europe on their capitals. Pretty much owning france in 4 turns. Spain however managed to survive by some miracle or the fact my general was a fat drunkard.

[Mathael]

Originally Posted by Morfildor

I found at first without sufficient economy that fighting large wars on more then one continent was rather hard. So I decided to totally wipe out americas first. When the french and spanish and there colonies were left I launched a massive invasion in europe on their capitals. Pretty much owning france in 4 turns. Spain however managed to survive by some miracle or the fact my general was a fat drunkard.

In my campaign as the British, I focused on the exact same thing. The Americas is a prime target, with little threat from neighboring factions and also abundant in wealth. Spain was a huge dominant force, but they don't take care of their colonies so these were the first of my targets. The easy thing about attacking South America, is that you can practically conquer all the island regions, then concentrate on northern Brazil and just keep traveling west until you hit Mexico. From there, the eastern front would be secured since the AI doesn't transport armies across water and your army acts as a buffer on the western front for any armies trying to travel east to steal your territories.

I don't know if it's the same thing for the rest of you, but the Maratha Confederacy is the most dominant force for me. At the current turn, they've wiped out five factions, own all of India and most of the Middle East and currently dominating against every single east European faction. It's a 5 on 1 war, and they're still kicking ass.

[Morfildor]

Except myself the ottomans were owning. I broke our NAP and we had a huge naval battle. I pretty much wiped out there entire fleet with hms victory and 3 other fleets. Then spain pretty much crumbled. Russia however suddenly started owning ottomans so they retreated to india.

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Somewhy not much war is happening in my campaign... All that opose me are being crushed. I basicly took over rusia, austria, Prussia, northern europe and now heading to the west. All small countrys of central europe are being wiped. I am going hit hard big countries capitals, take over all europe and then go to India with my ground forces. LAtest would be America.

It's jsut too easy IMO...