Craziest thing you ever did in Warband, and got away with it.

[Mystyk]

I took on large amounts of enemy troops, twice, and won 
These were with Native Expansion. The two images are the pre-battle screens. It's usually far too crazy to take any during combat.

First image, my mere 17 troops were all high level companions with Dark Knight armor (I defeated their faction a long time ago).
You know when you engage one group of enemies and their nearby friends join the party? This was one of those times. My bandit parties are never that large alone. Not in NE, anyway.
17 vs 267

It looks worse than it was. The majority of my troops were those same high level, heavily armored companions. Even though my battle sizes are larger than normal (330) that fight went on for a long time as more enemies joined in. I wish it'd been on the map somewhere and not in a squeezy little town but, that's what I get for raiding a village
85 vs 649

By far my most memorable time was when my group sieged Shariz (population around the 700 mark). Due to morale issues I 'put on my sieging gear' which is gathered up about 500-odd troops, half infantry and half archers. I'd also only just got the hang of the more complicated commands. Unlike taking Praven, I didn't cheat once, lol. No quick healing or knocking out a couple of irritating enemy troops, just lots of ordering people around while fighting and having a lot of fun doing so

 

[Madijeis]

I took on large amounts of enemy troops, twice, and won 
These were with Native Expansion. The two images are the pre-battle screens. It's usually far too crazy to take any during combat.

First image, my mere 17 troops were all high level companions with Dark Knight armor (I defeated their faction a long time ago).
You know when you engage one group of enemies and their nearby friends join the party? This was one of those times. My bandit parties are never that large alone. Not in NE, anyway.
17 vs 267

It looks worse than it was. The majority of my troops were those same high level, heavily armored companions. Even though my battle sizes are larger than normal (330) that fight went on for a long time as more enemies joined in. I wish it'd been on the map somewhere and not in a squeezy little town but, that's what I get for raiding a village
85 vs 649

By far my most memorable time was when my group sieged Shariz (population around the 700 mark). Due to morale issues I 'put on my sieging gear' which is gathered up about 500-odd troops, half infantry and half archers. I'd also only just got the hang of the more complicated commands. Unlike taking Praven, I didn't cheat once, lol. No quick healing or knocking out a couple of irritating enemy troops, just lots of ordering people around while fighting and having a lot of fun doing so

From what mods are the screenshots?

 

[Mystyk]

I was just using Native Expansion Beta. I still use it now and then. I didn't like the newer version.

 

[Roger Gawain]

My very first game (native), Swadian Lord, had ~40-50 Swadian Knights.

I bumped into a massive bunch of Nordic Lords with ~500 men. 10-1 Odds, (admittedly Swadian knights are excellent, but very expensive) and I WON. I actually WON, I kept riding about lopping poor infantrymens' heads as did my Knights.

I think by the end I had ~20-30 men and they had exactly 0.

Newbie me thought this was amazing, and then when I began to pull off easy field victories with them I realized it was not a fluke. Of course the Knights are costly af to keep, so I'm often bankrupt.

P.S. If anyone is having money issues, find a spot with lots of enemy caravans in nuetral territory. In my current game I have rekt 5-6 Kergit and 1 Nord caravan in Saltana land. (Near Durquba I think)

 

[Count Delinard]

While travelling as a mercenary around Sarranid lands with only a handful of Rhodok recruits and Baheshtur (I had begun that game around 3 days before so I was still pretty much in the very early stages of my character's growth and story), we got ambushed by 13 desert bandits

Baheshtur and I were mounted, but I gave him the only bow I had for him to act like a proper Khergit and shoot at enemies while moving, while I had my handy chipped rusty sword at hand and my inspiring voice to lead my 6 rhodok farmers.

Needless to say, all six of them fell only managing to get a single bandit, which left me and Baheshtur riding around trying to fight the rest.

Then... somehow I G'd (dropped) my weapon out and lost it somewhere in the sands, it got glitched or something which meant I was unarmed. I tried riding towards the fallen farmers and picking some club up but for some reason the game glitched and I could not pick weapons up, not a single one..

Baheshtur stood up to the challenge though, and sniped all 12 remaining bandits in circles while I rode around lifting my fists in the air (inciting fear upon our foes, of course) and avoiding javelins

The number of bandits was low, yes... only 13. But I could boast having defeated them without wielding a single weapon 

Baheshtur got angry at me for running out of food about a month later and left my party, but I never forgot how he saved my life.. Made him a lord years after I became a king and gave him Sargoth

 

[Saccadon]

Let me tell you, you haven't known true video game fear until you're seiging a castle and accidentally fall off the walls into a closed off room full of Nord huscarls while your Knights are busy pushing their way down the staircase, and your shield breaks. Thankfully I fought (and by that I mean bravely swung my sword in every humanly possible direction in a frantic attempt to break their lines) to the doorway and my Swadian and Vaegir Knights made it through to the aforementioned Nord Huscarls and gave them a taste of their own blood.

 

[Graeghan]

Recent playthrough in Floris: made it to the walls of Sargoth during a siege, found myself facing a bunch of pissed off Nords all alone, killed twenty-some of them despite my shield breaking on me (reinforced green kuyak, decent athletics and some halfway clever maneuvering with the mouse mean not having to manual block all that much apparently), got down because my health was getting low (I probably SHOULD learn to manual block one of these days anyway...), killed some more Nords on the ground between the inner and outer wall for a total of 33 (nothing to write home about most likely but an insane number by my standards). I could've probably kept on going but saw my allies were just chilling outside the gate, even though I all but broke the F1 and F3 keys on my keyboard, got angry and hit the "retreat" button out of pure spite.

 

[Cheezeninja]

Playing diplomacy, and doing the merchant quest to move cattle.

I start in Wercheg, and must all the way to Bariyye. (Remember, cattle don't accompany you in this module).

I start my journey, slowly but surely making my way to the far off deserts.

I pass Alburq Castle, and a band of sea raiders spots me, and makes chase after my weak army consisting of 3 nord recruits and Jeremus.

They are the .2 speed faster, AND I am trying to move cattle. I don't run towards a castle because I can't lose the cattle, so I push forward with the bandits chasing me. I manage to make my way ALL THE WAY to Bariyye, and the bandits are still chasing me. Throughout the journey, lords, manhunters, and terrain kept pushing the bandits away, but they would always come back. How I managed to escort a herd of cattle at the same time, I do not know.

tldr: bandit party chased me from Wercheg to Bariyye and now sea raiders are roaming the desert.

 

[VitaG]

Once at level 13 I needed money and of desperation I plundered swadian village. I sold the goods for fine profit in Uxkhal (I think it was Uxkhal). Later I met the lord of the village and he was like that I plundered his fief etc. First I wanted to attack him but then I changed my mind nevertheless I missclicked and instead of appology I attacked him. My cca 45 guys beat his farmers (that was luck) and he escaped. Some minutes after the battle was over on my screen appeared  that the one lord I fought was disbanned and lives in Khergit Khanate. I went to King Harlaus and to my surprise he accepted my pledge. Later I attacked khergit castle where the one lord was staying at the moment. I won, captured the lord. Then I was given the castle as a reward + plus village which most likely belonged to the lord. And to complete my victory I sold the lord to Khanate for cca 3400 den. Never had such a luck before   

 

[carlos1879]

My first ever battle (outside of bandit in starting city) it was me vs 14 mountain bandits I ran into by accident, pressed the wrong button and dropped my weapon twice... ended up riding around with no weapon and no shield kept riding round looking for them and couldn't find them spent a very very long time charging bandits on my horse till I knocked one out then led them off turned around grabbed the falchion he dropped and used it to kill about 8 more of them when one of them managed to knock out my horse, somehow managed to kill a couple more and a few decided to run away for which I was incredibly grateful, ended up with about 10% hp left.

Felt brilliant afterwards I defeated 14-1 odds after throwing away my weapons but at the time I facepalmed.

 

[Ansiktslos]

I once started a game with an imported character who was intentionally made so terrible that I though it would be impossible to play the game. I even called her Little Girl after the eponimous character from Fallout 2 impossible playthrough.

In fact it turned into an super fun game with lots of tricks I didn't know before.

I could not finish it due to HDD failure, but later started all over and conquered the map.


now I do this again with more challenges.