What was your most unlikely battle victory/defeat?

[Plotinus]

*Any* battle between two armies is always awesome. I've had quite a few where both have gone right down into the red... nailbiting stuff!

[Gibsie]

(My luckiest battle victory was conquering Amsterdam the turn after it built the Temple of Artemis. Zing!)

[Tassadar500]

I was playing Emperor when this happened. My single veteran warrior was unfortified on a grass land and beat around 20 barb horseman.

[spy14]

Medieval/ Industrial units often seem to get lucky with more modern ones - is this some sort of bug in the game? For instance a tank has 16 attack, a pikeman has 3-6 defense depending on terrain, but you seem to get periods of results where these units cancel each other out 1 for 1.

Also, some units seem to offend more than others. Medieval infantry (4.2.1) seem to have greater success rates than Knights (4.3.2) for example. Anyone else noticed this?

[mrmitchell]

Well, it isn't really lucky or anything, but in my last game the Mongols in their foolishness declared war on me in the Ancient era. I didn't have the resources to attack and conquer them, but I couldn't just watch them throw units up to suicide against my cities.

It just so happened that I had a Warrior running around on their other border that had just been exploring. I rushed him to their cities and pillaged the hell out of everything in sight. He took on about 2 or 3 of their archers attempting to kill him, which is the unlikely part...end result, their cities were reduced to rubble by a single warrior. The Mongol dogs wisely requested peace, and I gave it to them at a price.

[Kuciwalker]

A 4-elite modern armor army in C3C (so it had bonuses) lost to a conscript barbarian warrior unfortified on grassland with no defense bonuses on Chieftan once....

j/k

[Gibsie]

I wouldn't be surprised

[SirOsis]

Ok here is the save of the Med Inf taking out the immortal army.

Look for the tough bastard between Troy and Isandhlwana. At the center of the map.

[East Street Trader]

My spearman beating a battleship in Civ1.

[Cruddy]

Most unlikely victory was a Diplo win after I'd been to war with most of the world.

Just into the modern Age, Rome decides to attack me. A few alliances and bribes later, everyone loves me. My next leader finishes the United Nations and the rest is history.

It's like the AI spontanteously committed suicide (Deity or Emperor level - NOT what I expected).

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by East Street Trader
My spearman beating a battleship in Civ1.

That brings back some memories.... Yes, they chucked their spears at the battleship, one got stuck in the tailpipe and the whole ship blew up like the USS Maine in the Spanish-American War... heh heh

Obviously the bombardment concept was born and introduced later....

My greatest battle defeat was an epic battle on a frontier town.... it was situated on a hill guarded with two bored spearman. I can only imagine their surprise as they sat around this sleepy town, playing cards, drinking whisky when suddenly the town crier screamed "RAGING BARBARIANS....RAGING BARBARIANS..."

I counted 12 Horseman charging on the tiny hill town. The first spearman killed two horseman, damaged a third before he succumed to the enemy. The lone spearman killed the next eight attacking horseman before he was killed. (he started as "regular" ended up "elite" and was killed anyway). What really burned me up was the last horseman, damaged waltzed into the town and pillaged my treasury for 5 gold. I know, I know...it's no big deal -- it was the principle of the whole thing.

[Arrian]

Hmm, on the plus side:

I took out a fortified regular rifleman (flat ground, size <6 town) with a regular swordsman once.

I remember a war chariot of mine killing an attacking mounted warrior (my wc was on a forest, with 3 or 4 hp, and the MW was probably a regular).

I accidently attacked with the wrong unit once and killed a fortified regular spearman with an elite warrior (and generated a leader. Good Grog!).

I've taken out fortified infantry w/cavalry.

I flat out crushed Carthage once using a combo of horsemen and legionaries. It's not one battle, but an entire war of pretty good luck. Horsies led, knocking 1hp off of regular numidians, and the Legions finished. It worked like a charm.

In my second played-out-for-a-while Conquests game, my Iroquois archers/spears/cats and later swordsmen were able to conquer the Maya without losing to a Jav thrower until the final city. I killed at least 10 of them, maybe more.

On the bad side:

Lost a veteran Tank to a fortified musketman (flat land, town).

Lost a 9hp (1 elite +1 vet) sword army and a seperate elite swordsman to a regular spearman fortified on a hill (in a size1 town), taking a grand total of 1hp off him. That one REALLY pissed me off. This was pre-conquests, so no army bonus.

Had a vet galley take my elite battleship to 1hp (battleship attacking). Had it won, it would clearly be the craziest result I've ever gotten.

I lost a regular infantry, fortified in a city on flat terrain, to an attacking Keshik. Flawless victory for the Keshik, IIRC.

I lost a knight attacking a longbowman (flat terrain, unfortified) in a Conquests game a couple of days ago. I wasn't at all surprised. I'm pretty sure that's happened to me before.

Several times I've lost swordsmen attacking archers out in the open (on flat terrain, unfortified).

I've lost many Cavalry to Impi (I ****ing hate Impi).

-Arrian