What's the biggest Stack of Doom you've ever seen?

[Gastric ReFlux]

That was a nice stack, Killer. Bad curry will do that to you.

 

[simplybag]

Shaka once had 150 mech infs in one stack. My spy told me that Zululand only has 200 mech infs all together and no MAs. I decided to nuke the stack three times and only 6 mech infs were left Tactically not TOO clever. Shaka should read more Sun Tzu

 

[Ohwell]

I saw 100 infantry coming over the hills once... Sent my infantry, around 30 or so, to the surrounding hills and mountains, plus artillery... fortified in the mountains. Held off for a little while until they won. Some old cavalry I had sitting plus some new tanks took them on when they went on flat ground and I eventually got them. If they sent artillery with that I wouldn't have beaten them.

 

[Evincar]

Think I have already talked about this, but it's so funny...

Xerxes declared war on me, we were in different continents, but I had a city on theirs, so, the very clever emperor send God knows haw many units (Infantry, inmortals, even 3 or 4 armies) to the city, defended by an heroic cavalry.

My turn. I abandon the city, disband the cavalry and nuke the stack. according to my spies, he lost about 100 infantry, 20 inmortals and 3 armies.

Too bad I didn't have a second ICBM...

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

If I keep hearing more stories like this about Xerxes, I'm gonna have to start calling him StackMan.

Those Immortals make him a pain in the butt in Ancient Times.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Gastric: I learned that from the Allies in WWII - just throw more at one point than can be countered....

it is way fun if you can rush an airport, then fly in more units than the enemy can kill - he'll draft himself to hell trying to get rid of the beachhead - while never being able to attack you elsewhere. So you can then bring a second stack to another point, found another city, then proceed to chew him up from two sides

That one, I got from Caesar (Gaius Julius, not the Froum one )

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

Oh don't even get me talking about the AI and drafting itself to death.

The other thing I started doing was building some settlers to fill in all the Persian cities I was going to raze.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

yeah it sucks when they go commie, draft and rush like hell, then collapse after a while from unhappiness. And you then need the sttlers, since you have to raze everything.....

 

[Beam]

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
The absolute nightmare:

23 Transports with 8 Mech inf each
20 Transports with 8 modern Armour each
16 Transports with 8 Radar Arty each minus 1 Arty - a settler instead


landed that on the coast of India (after making sure they had no Oil!!!!!

turn 1: they lost 25 Tanks attacking me, plus like 20 Mech. Inf.
founded a city on the landing site ( a hill)

turn 2: the Indians threw over 200 Mech Inf at my city. They won a littel over 10 fights - I won the rest RIP India!


Aside from that i have often seen AI stacks of around 40 or more units - but only if that civ lacks fast moving attackers!

Killer, can you post a .sav, I like watching movies! The one where you just landed hehehe.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Oh sorry Beamuppie, no sav of that one and none of the Succession Game where i landed 60 untis and the French Mech inf died by the numbers, too. 94:6 for us! It was the DS2 - dominating Prussians one, very much fun!

 

[The Last Conformist]

Gastric, the other day our friend Stackman send two stacks of Riflemen against a size 3 hill city with walls of mine, defended by three Elite Riflemen and asorted Riders, Musketmen, and spearmen (I saw the buggers coming and foolishly thought they could be stopped). I didn't try to count, but they took that city in one turn, and proceeded to take to more before I quit the game.

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

Stackman is evil. I just started another game, and have the pleasure of being isolated with him on an island continent. But I'm laughing because I've cut off his access to iron. I think I'll reduce him to one city and make him suffer. As much as AI might suffer.

 

[sappling]

The other day I had the pleasure of witnessing the following event.

I had 1 city on an enemy continent. Using my spy, I could see the AI (French) had about 300 rilfemen and various other units, but no infantry or tanks. I had about 10 mech infantry gaurding my city. War started and the AI used over 300 riflemen and bowmen to attack my city with 10 mech infantry defending it. I didn't lose 1 unit and he lost over 300 by my count. Good thing the AI is so smart. France was wiped out in about three turns after that brillant move.

 

[JohnGalt]

I was the Iroquois on Regent; I had a nice little island and was in the processing of absorbing the continent next door, owned jointly by the Greeks and the Romans.

I had just finished off the Romans except for one little city, and about 1/3 of Greece, when I declared peace so as to modernize my warriors to Cavalry, finish the Forbidden Palace, and bring in more troops.

Peace was going well for me and I was about to re-declare war to finish off that twit Alexander (I'll show HIM to gouge me on furs) when I noticed about five Greek swordsmen crossing the border. Hmmm, where are they headed? Then a stack behind them - about fifty swordsmen, spearmen, etc. Then a stack behind that one of about ten archers.

This was a significantly larger force than I had in a given position, though I had him badly outnumbered overall. Thinking he was going to recapture some of the cities I had taken, I started shuffling the troops around and building my cavalry megastack. Ten turns later, I was ready to strike but his troops were ignoring me - they were headed for Rome! (Well, Veii, but it was the last OF Rome.)

So I waited for him to wear himself out on the last Roman pikemen, then my amassed cavalry army broke the Greek army permanently while they sat on an open plain. The rest of the Greek conquest was so easy I did it as a democracy.

AI megastacks are usually an opportunity rather than a problem, if you have the troops already built to exploit.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Originally posted by sappling
The other day I had the pleasure of witnessing the following event.

I had 1 city on an enemy continent. Using my spy, I could see the AI (French) had about 300 rilfemen and various other units, but no infantry or tanks. I had about 10 mech infantry gaurding my city. War started and the AI used over 300 riflemen and bowmen to attack my city with 10 mech infantry defending it. I didn't lose 1 unit and he lost over 300 by my count. Good thing the AI is so smart. France was wiped out in about three turns after that brillant move.

That is exactly what my beachhead strategy relies on! They will throw everything at you, instead of conserving their force and trying to harm you elsewhere.....

300 is LOTS mor than I every saw attacking in 1 turn, but if it is after railroad.....

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

In my latest game, I haven't seen the AI generate any good SoDs. I knocked out Persia early from our island-continent, got my productive cities cranking, and when Cathy came to extort spices, thus began my goal of getting my first Conquest victory (I usually choose to win through Domination or Spaceship). Abe is down to 12 cities, Monte has 3 left. And neither is going to be able to assemble any real resistance or counterattacks.

 

[wohmongarinf00l]

long periods of peace make me nervous especially if one civ has just gotten out of a victorious war. if they are sitting around with all those units they are gonna find someone to bully and it will be me so i really don't like to tempt them so.
between factories and the spaceship there are no infrastructural improvements to built so u can bet u are going to be facing huge stacks of tanks and infantry later on....mordern armor and mech inf if u are unlucky.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

I'm not surpirsed at the number of units in SoDs, and the number of Sods I see! I played some games where I set all cities on governor for production - and these idiots produce 1 Spearman, 1 building, 1 Spearman, 1 building, 1 Catapult, 1 Spearman, 1 building and so on, even if the city is in desperate need of culture, an aqueduct or a library!

This is with everything set to 'sometimes', you get about 38% flowing into defenders and bombard, 12% into attackers, and all the rest into buildings! So this is what the AI does - no wonder they can throw stacks with 48 Spearmen at me!!!!!

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

Governors, brrr, that makes me shudder.

Started a new game after finishing a Conquest with Chinese on Monarch; this new one has excellent SoD potential.

Emperor level, standard map with medium continents. I'm on a landmass with the Persians, Zulu, Babs, and Iroqs. Decent start location, Athens was a fairly good settler factory, and had a couple other cities that would be good producers of military. But no access to horses or any luxuries! As a result, I've been having to grow and up my luxury rate to about 30% right now.

It also meant that the Iroqs became a juicy target. They were my closest neighboring civ, to my south, they even got a city location that I would have settled to be part of my first ring of productive cities around Athens. They also had two luxs, and horses. I quickly cut off their horses and have taken out half the cities.

My next target is going to the Zulus, but that means I have to let StackMan go. So he's going to end up assembling a lot of units, and that means eventually there'll be a showdown. I expect an SoD or two.

 

[Soviet beast]

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