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Originally posted by frudi_x:
he just pulled the same s**t on me!
if i got this right, his troops show up in provinces with zeal over 90%? (or it was just a strange coincidence in my case).
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Grats on beating him. I wasn't able to do it. He had the 5k or so units all on Rome. Rome was very far from my current areas of activities, so I had only a light garison there and in all the surrounding areas. By taking all of the troups in all the surounding areas, I was able to get around 2k soldiers, about 100 of those were Royal Knights, while the rest were mostly Spearmen and Militia Guards. The pope's army was way more advanced, His was made of chivalric sergents, men at arms, and way more Royal Knights than me.
My Spearmen and Militia was getting butchered in melee, so I reloaded, and decided another tactic. I positioned my Royal Knights so that they flanked the Pope's army and I put my crappy foder in the front. When the fight started his army went for my foder, while my Knights went for the pope. They killed him, then I took my 100 grouped Royal knights, and had them charge the same ennemy unit. They'd capture some, and I'd execute them. They'd panic and start runing away, then I'd do the same with another unit. It didn't take long for the panic to spread, and all of his troops were running away from my knights.
I was able to make about 4k of them run that way, but each new wave of units had to be attacked for a while before they would panic, and by the time I had routed that many, my knights were out of stamina and almost all dead. The last wave destroyed my knights and my Spearmen ran away.
Thas was a very heroic fight, but I only killed maybe 100 or so of his units, and they just named a new pope, while I had lost all the units in that area of the map, so I reloaded, destroyed everything in Rome and surounded it.
[ 08-23-2004, 02:30 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]