peacefull victory possible at high difficulties?

[Drakarska]

Actually, the english had a rather nasty trick with their spies/sappers. Spies would go in underneath the city walls and diagram a map. Sappers would then coat a group of pigs in pig fat, take them under the city walls buttresses, then light the pigs on fire. Nasty, but effective.

 

[AdamCrock]

It is very impossible because there were no explosives those days of catapults and battering rams. Spies could burn down granaries and libraries but not city walls.
Then gunpowder make walls obsolete.

But think about the Trojan war, the tactics.

Totally agree ! ^^ One horse, one victory ! ^^ Pirates of victory ! I just could not resist ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKWHTNkvIE xD

sorry ...

 

[noto2]

Don't kid yourself - espionage has played a key role in warfare since the very first war. Someone already cited the example of Troy, also the battle of Thermopylae wasn't over until some Persians cut a deal with a backstabber who showed them a hidden route to use to flank the Spartans. Hannibal wasn't defeated in Rome by an army (he kept obliterating Roman armies), he was defeated by the "fabian strategy" - which is basically geurilla warfare tactics. The Spanish armada was repelled by the English largely because the English caught the armada anchored and sailed dozens of cheap, almost worthless ships on fire right into it - fireships. The English were only able to do that because they knew the ships were coming in the first place.

Mulan was able to stop the Huns because she got the guys to dress as concubines and sneak into the...oh wait, never mind