Best Battle Moments/Strategies

[Oblivions Angel]

A Place to chat about when the odds were against you and you prevailed. Or talk about mods you may be making or plan to make. Or talk/Ask about strategies with the different factions. Have fun

"May your sword always be Sharp and your Mount Sure of Foot"

 

[Honved]

The only thing that comes to mind was one nasty string of fights where the AI sent about 500+ men (Rhodoks) to siege my newly granted First Castle Ever, and I only had about 60-70 men in total (primarily Khergit) between the castle and my field army.  Lured a couple of groups of 50-70 men into chasing my 50 or so, got them far enough from the castle that the other 350+ couldn't join in, and then outran them until the other turned back.  Charged the one still chasing, and got to fight an almost even battle of 50+ to about 70 of them.  After that, got the second to resume chase, and destroyed that 50+ unit.  Had to rest overnight (just about every Companion was Wounded), and then lured a stack of about 120 off to the slaughter (another tough fight, since Rhodoks are hard to take on with a mounted army).  By the time my unit recovered overnight from that, the remaining 250-ish enemies (the opposing King and a smaller army) had started the assault.  Joined the defense, and proceeded to hold the walls against roughly 4 times my number, foregoing lance and shield to load up on a bow, double load of arrows (I still ran out), and a sword.  I think I gained two levels in that mess, mostly from archery in the castle defense.

Mainly memorable because it was the first campaign where I got a castle, and the opponents almost immediately tried to take it from me.  I wasn't about to let it go.

 

[Lord Orange]

I'd just been decimated by repeated sea raider attacks so I only had a few Nord militia (or whatever the rank after recruit is) and a couple Vaegir archers. Them and a few heavily armed armored companions somehow managed to defeat 40 angry sea raiders. My few Nords guarded the archers, the companions fought the sea raiders when they got too close. I got my archers to kill most of them while running circles around them on my horse (those vaegirs are insanely accurate) but ended with a melee between me, my few infantry units/followers, and 15 or so heavily armed sea raiders.
Moral of the Story: Be careful trading iron in the North.

 

[Thorvald]

Well I haven't actually played a ton of Native, however I have put tons of time into some of the mods like PoP,Perisno and ACOK and I have to admit my go to tactic that I used in PoP: I would usually keep my flanks reinforced while leaving my centre line weak, like one or two man deep weak. When the enemy inevitably charges their cavalry at the centre of my line they break through creating a small gap, leaving them stuck between my two reinforced flanks. With a simple command charge they enemy cavalry is a threat no more. If you can get your men back into positions it works just as well with infantry. 

And for anyone wondering, this was an actual tactic used by Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae. This might give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

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[Mad_Villager]

Was against 700 vaegir and had 60 Rhodok sgt and about 20 crossbow. Had an height advantage with 8 tactic skill, though vaegir had like maybe 8% high tier units because they were newly beaten.