Those moments that make you proud of your men.

[Dorrin]

Earlier this year, I had a huge battle as marshall of the D'Shar. I think I had maybe 9 lords with me storming a Vanskerry Fierdsvain fortress. I had battlesizer on 850, and we had broken through the walls and were engaged in a "fuster cluck" on the staircase.
It was a stalemate for a good while, until suddenly I saw that 5 men had somehow gone round the back staircase and were approaching the enemy from behind. It turned out to be 2 spearmen, 2 bladesmen, and Khaivan Khan (if that's his name). They alone engaged the enemy in the courtyard and manage to kill around 10 men before being felled...apart from Khaivan Khan. He was the last man of this crazy group to survive, and he single-handedly killed another 6 men, enabling my army to break through the staircase and pour out into the courtyard, finally able to use our numbers to our advantage. I arrived next to him just as he was knocked unconscious, and our army proceeded to make quick work of the enemy.

I still don't understand what made him and his loyal followers deviate from the norm and set off on a completely new path. It was some really exciting ai to watch as you could see the enemy caught by surprise and turning to engage them, and the 2 spearmen working in sync with the bladesmen to fend off attackers.
I like to imagine Khaivan Kahn gained some insight somehow and realised his true potential.

Has anyone else seen any situations where Vicky decides to do something sneaky?

Not seen it done by the AI intentionally, but as someone pointed out they likely fell off a wall and tried to charge back in. You can use the "nearby soldiers" (forget the key for that, check hotkeys ingame) command followed by f1-f2 to make them follow you and lead your own little charge like that around behind those cluttered stairs.

 

[jarhead_writer]

Damn, I've just killed him for the 5th time in 190 days and now at a cost of 197 squires 231 knights and 43 noldor.

Killing him is starting to become a lot more trouble then it's worth.

Wait, Eyegrim comes back after you kill him? (As in I made contact with and defeated his army, and didn't jump in when he's fighting a Noldor lord, etc.)

Crap, I always left him alone, saving him as the last spawn to take down as a test for my end-game army.

 

[mesor]

Yup, I'm up to 11 times now in 700 days lol and his army is getting insane. Last time he came back by the time I found him he had over 1700 men lol. Took me 5 fricking hours to wipe them out.

 

[SOVWARgoesSACPOP]

RE: stair fighting- Another easy way to backstab the massive stair scrum is to send a group (I normally send Cav, cause the bulk of my army is infantry) to stand ground over at the base of a diff stair case that is like 50 feet away. Then when you tell them to charge again, most of them will run straight through the courtyard rather than walking up the wall.

Always nice to force the enemy to defend 2 fronts

 

[jarhead_writer]

Yup, I'm up to 11 times now in 700 days lol and his army is getting insane. Last time he came back by the time I found him he had over 1700 men lol. Took me 5 fricking hours to wipe them out.

Man, that's outstanding. The more the merrier.

 

[Empiro]

Yup, I'm up to 11 times now in 700 days lol and his army is getting insane. Last time he came back by the time I found him he had over 1700 men lol. Took me 5 fricking hours to wipe them out.

How does that keep happening? After you wipe a few of their armies, their status is "Obliterated" and they hardly ever spawn anymore. In my game, all the minor factions are like that, and now I kinda miss them now that I actually have an army capable of solo-ing them.

 

[jarhead_writer]

Yup, I'm up to 11 times now in 700 days lol and his army is getting insane. Last time he came back by the time I found him he had over 1700 men lol. Took me 5 fricking hours to wipe them out.

How does that keep happening? After you wipe a few of their armies, their status is "Obliterated" and they hardly ever spawn anymore. In my game, all the minor factions are like that, and now I kinda miss them now that I actually have an army capable of solo-ing them.

My policy (except for the end-game) is to never attack a spawned army unless their respective faction is "Overwhelming" or better. Also, I don't even think about asking about rumors anymore - it's automatic whenever I visit a town or speak with patrols, village elders, stewards, etc.

 

[Rpground]

Yup, I'm up to 11 times now in 700 days lol and his army is getting insane. Last time he came back by the time I found him he had over 1700 men lol. Took me 5 fricking hours to wipe them out.

How does that keep happening? After you wipe a few of their armies, their status is "Obliterated" and they hardly ever spawn anymore. In my game, all the minor factions are like that, and now I kinda miss them now that I actually have an army capable of solo-ing them.

My policy (except for the end-game) is to never attack a spawned army unless their respective faction is "Overwhelming" or better. Also, I don't even think about asking about rumors anymore - it's automatic whenever I visit a town or speak with patrols, village elders, stewards, etc.

I have a tendency to just ask EVERYONE about rumors...sometime late game I have about 7 or more unique spawns running around creating havoc. P:

 

[Rpground]

I wish you could promote those guys or distinguish them somehow. Each time I have a soldier like that I want to remember who exactly it was and guard him with my life xD

Yeah ditto, that way I could keep track of whoever does something awesome like this. P:

 

[mesor]

I always ask as well, so I have mass unique spawns coming to fight all the time.

 

[Carlos Danger]

I actually remember defeating Wolfbode The Slayer (note, this is after they just had some encounters with some lords and Noldor) with some Huscarls, some Light Infantry, Ravenstern archers and Ravenstern Mounted Archers, I went around with the mounted Archers so my men had time to get in position and to wittle down the enemy (Archers at back, Light infantry in the middle, Heavy Infantry in the front, infantry all standing close), after a while I lost about 5 mounted archers because of my slacking and because I wanted to stop the enemy getting to my men, then my horse and I were on such low health I moved back, my men held them back considering the overwhelming enemy numbers, after my huscarls line was almost down, I tactfully made my light infantry follow me and in the nick of time I flanked the enemy, which gave me time to relocate the archers on a hill where they took down a suprising amount of men, needless to say after a short while my infantry were obliterated and my archers wouldn't stand a chance, so I retreated and regrouped, rebuilt my men and repeated about 3 times, and I won!, a morale loss but I got a nice amount of renown.

I should've recorded it...

 

[zacxx]

The sun rises on the horizon, giving way to a scene of death and destruction. Bodies lay strewn across the ground, cold lifeless clumps in armor. The few men who remain in Torbah gather the dead and throw them on the burning fire after stripping them of valuables. The surviving knights stare down as the peasants work, armor covered in the blood and guts of those who dared fight them.
There is commotion in the keep as the rest of the knights prepare to follow the remaining Empire lords as they run with their tail between their legs. The Ebony gauntlet knights and Hammers file out of the city gates, armor still soaked in blood, with vengeance on the mind for their fallen brothers.

After about a year of holding my own kingdom, the empire and fierdsvane were the last two kingdoms to oppose me. I had been gathering an army of Ebony Gauntlet knights (my favorite) for a while in my capital of Torbah. It seemed almost out of nowhere that the Empire attack, capturing or defeating all my vassels. They marched up to my gates, with every single empire lord (or damn near to it) to siege my castle. It was me, my army of 150 late game (non knight) troops, lord donovan and lord lethaldrin each with about 100 men, a mercenary company, and my army of 400 ebony gauntlet knights and hammers, against an army of atleast 5000. The ensuing battle was horrible and I lost about 300 of the gauntlet and most of everything else, but in the end we (somehow) were victorious. I then hired a NEW mercanary company (the unicorns, I think?) and with the remaining gauntlet and the rest, chased down Marius and caught him alone. We fought, we won, and we came home victorious and my men got the long rest they deserved.