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Hey all. I was in a large map builder style game with 5 other opponents. I needed two things from the egyptians, coal and oil.
There was one city near my borders that had both. Realizing that I had too big of a military, I sent out units from every inner city to fight a war.
Now, I happened to be on Warlord at the time. Here's what happened.
I took about 10 guerillas and 10 infantry straight to the city with oil and coal. After killing 3 spearmen I took the city. Then, I took another 5 guerillas and 5 infantry and took another nearby city.
Right about then they destroyed the road to my one source of Iron. So, quicky I killed the lone longbowman with an infantry from the second city.
Then I noticed a mass invasion of, get this, longbowman! There were stacks of them all over my SE corner. After I took back the Iron, they moved around my city to a square adjacent to the iron. I figured they wanted to make sure that I had no iron. So, I moved about 10 infantry onto the Iron.
The next turn, they attacked the city they had just gone around. There was one infantry defending the city. Of course, not having any railroads due to the loss of iron, it would be 2 turns before I could get more units in there.
I then watched and laughed as in one turn they attacked with 25 longbowman, one at a time. The first one caused my infantry unit to become veteran. On the fourth he was elite. By the 25th attack, he was wounded, but alive.
On the next turn, about 25 more attacked. This time he went all the way down to one red square left on his health bar. I was actuallly quite worried. But then the last longbowman fell, and I laughed.
It just goes to show how powerfull a defender an infantry unit can be against a middle ages army. I had no idea that one infantry could hold out that well against such a huge onslaught of longbowmen.
Well, I hope you enjoyed my little story,
Dan O.
Oh, BTW, I had Tzun Tzu's War Acadamy, so the city had a barracks in it. Still, it's quite a feat!
There was one city near my borders that had both. Realizing that I had too big of a military, I sent out units from every inner city to fight a war.
Now, I happened to be on Warlord at the time. Here's what happened.
I took about 10 guerillas and 10 infantry straight to the city with oil and coal. After killing 3 spearmen I took the city. Then, I took another 5 guerillas and 5 infantry and took another nearby city.
Right about then they destroyed the road to my one source of Iron. So, quicky I killed the lone longbowman with an infantry from the second city.
Then I noticed a mass invasion of, get this, longbowman! There were stacks of them all over my SE corner. After I took back the Iron, they moved around my city to a square adjacent to the iron. I figured they wanted to make sure that I had no iron. So, I moved about 10 infantry onto the Iron.
The next turn, they attacked the city they had just gone around. There was one infantry defending the city. Of course, not having any railroads due to the loss of iron, it would be 2 turns before I could get more units in there.
I then watched and laughed as in one turn they attacked with 25 longbowman, one at a time. The first one caused my infantry unit to become veteran. On the fourth he was elite. By the 25th attack, he was wounded, but alive.
On the next turn, about 25 more attacked. This time he went all the way down to one red square left on his health bar. I was actuallly quite worried. But then the last longbowman fell, and I laughed.
It just goes to show how powerfull a defender an infantry unit can be against a middle ages army. I had no idea that one infantry could hold out that well against such a huge onslaught of longbowmen.
Well, I hope you enjoyed my little story,
Dan O.
Oh, BTW, I had Tzun Tzu's War Acadamy, so the city had a barracks in it. Still, it's quite a feat!
. If anything over 4 units attack me, I'm usually going to lose the unit, no matter what it is.
Nice story!
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