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hermes	Amazingly lucky shots		Lead	[-]
Posts: 16 06/09/09 19:04:52	Tags : best, etw, shot, lucky, moment I couldn't find a 'Whats your best ETW moment' thread to put this in so im making a new one Just wanted to tell this to people who will appreciate it, as my girlfriend is totally unimpressed. I just invaded Trinidad. playing as GB and entered battle with the pirates. I had 4xhowitzer, 2x horse artillery 8xinf, 2xcav and a general. I beat them pretty easily, except 2 units of pirate mob, who ran off to the edge of the battlefield. Keeping them pinned from the front with my howitzers, i moved my HA into a flanking position and enfiladed the enemy - then to my amazement i saw the best thing i've seen in ETW so far... 1 round shot from my HA hit the enemy absolutely smack on and took out the entire rear rank of the first unit, it then bounced and went straight through the second unit, this time taking out the entire middle rank!! (except for 3-4 guys).. Ahh it was amazing 50+ kills with a single cannon ball! Unfortunately i forgot to save the replay, so i cannot prove anything , but it was fantastic!! - especially given the usual accuracy of artillery... Any one else got any freaky shots to report?
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Cpl DeMotivator		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 24 06/09/09 21:47:53	My buddy told me in his RtoI George Washington was the unfortunate victim of friendly fire.....1 cannon ball to the back of the head.. I have no proof this occured, just his word.
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rubberduck		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 217 06/09/09 22:05:24	Nice shot! It seems like round shots are doing a lot more damage after the latest patch. Pre-patch a cannonball could smash into the middle of a regiment without killing a single man. Now my cannonballs can easily take out 8-10 men, especially if it goes through a horse-unit. But 50 kills with one cannonball must be world record!
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Drago General		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 290 06/09/09 23:20:53	if u attack the flank of an inf regiment with any arty, this will be the effect.
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Shazti Von Draxis		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 131 06/10/09 00:29:58	The luckiest shot i'd ever seen was for my enemy. I was playing and it was getting tight, the enemy a unit of militia against my general's body guard and 12 pounder battery. I had slaughtered everyone else and had killed thousands, and was getting ready to savor the win. I set my 12 pounders to "grape" to finish the militia, but they were getting close. I sent my general's body guard in to slow the militia down. However, the second the guard came in past the guns, the dumb "fire at will" AI malfunctioned and my general was blown apart... The funniest part was that he was the only one that died... then the rest of his unit routed. That killed me...
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spitz6860		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 389 06/10/09 01:01:13	i wish there is a voice saying "Head Shot" every time a general gets killed b y a cannonball.
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tim15856		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1767 06/10/09 01:39:25	Did you play M2TW? In sally battles the AI would just sit there as you rolled your cannon onto its flank. You'd see dozens of men go flying with each cannonball. I tried not to exploit the AI too much in that manner. In M1TW there were the famous one shot general kills. One time the AI general unit was separated from the rest of his army. He was on a nearby hill and started trotting over to the other hill where his army was. He was just taking his time as my cannon swung around toward him. Bam...knocked him off his horse. Last Edited By: tim15856 06/10/09 01:43:26. Edited 1 time.
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Jocky		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 111 06/10/09 05:36:28	Always gets a whoop from me when a long range cannon shot takes out a general in the first salvo. More often in Medieval tbh.
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Boodoosh		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 76 06/10/09 06:32:11	A 4 gun galley caused my 2nd rate to explode - BOOM!!!!!!!!! unexpected and spectacular - a replay I saved and watched and love the graphics even if I didn't like the outcome
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PaulMako		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 640 06/10/09 06:49:26	Glad the OP asked! In my RTI campaign, I had a battle against a Native Indian tribe... it was quite a wide open plain. Their generals unit was right over the otherside of the map, and I managed to get a round shot from across the map and kill him! It was one of the few hots that hit but I was so smug when it did! Was an easy battle after that... ah, playing RTI and still being new to Empire... good times. Kinda reminds me of using Onagers and killing a general from across the map in Rome.
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Clover Long		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1391 06/10/09 06:56:17	I have one.. back when i still played Empire i had a General..i raised him- put him in command of my armies, took care of him. Time passed and his skill grew, Austria declared war on me- my general took command of my Imperial army. The battle went well, the enemy was routed- save for a small battered infantry regiment. I remember being surprised that it did not shatter- it had a pathetically small number of men in it, cant remember for sure..much less than a single rank or even a quarter of a rank. My general thought to break the enemy's rear guard unit- he charged them. The enemy fired- all missed. They reloaded, my general closed within 10 yards- then it hap pend. They fired, only my general fell- less then a millisecond later they routed from the proximity of my cavalery. The damage was done.. My prised General slain by the last volley of the battle- his unit at it's full complement un-scatched by the battle itself... That memory stayed with me this whole time..even while Empire collects dust for being pathetic..
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