I 'm seldom defeated on the battle field. But each time I lose the battle, it's really a crushing defeat.
I know I said it before many times so tonight I'm gonna tell you my most inglorious defeat.
It's know it's harder to imagine when I depict what happened without pictures and battle map. Pardon me for this irrational thing.
Come back to our topic, I have to emphasize it as a disaster of military strategy like battle of Cannae 216 BC. I was very eager when my opponent picked Greek faction because it's known as the faction that has the worst cavalry. Meanwhile I'm a talent cavalry commander. Don't think of me smug. I say that because I believe in my cavalry micro skill and I think it doesn't need to be approved. I picked Roman faction(exactly Julii house) in this destiny battle. As expected, he(my opponent) use a lot of hoplite units to hold his battle line as a backbone of whole formation. However, it means that there're only a bit of week cavalry units and as a result, no sooner had I attacked his right flank his cavalry units routed. He tried to protect his flank and archer units from my cavalry troops hopelessly due to the heavy and slow moving of infantry units. Only after less than 5 min all his cavalry and missile units had been running away. I thought about a victory at this moment. His army was surrounded by my troops.Under" the arrow and javalin
rain" from my archer and legionary units, all his Armour hoplite and central army was destroyed. He intended to give up but he suddenly arranged his right flank to make a square formation with the most excellent remained units-Spartan hoplite so as not to be striked behind and block my troops from going forward by the wall spear. I was so arrogent and careless that I wasn't aware of his trap for me. Try as I might, I couldn't break his army. Whereas my army got a seriously casualty. Only when I even had to use archer troops to fight hand to hand did I realised that my defeat was comming.
At the end of battle I didn't only lose to break his formation but also blew my victory. My stronger army was crushed by his final men.