i was playing rome total war again and i was german with about 1000 people and suddenly i was attacked by a force of about 3k roman troops. i'm at a bridge map so it's common sense, have your phalanx block off one side of the bridge and have archers on the side to cause havic. when i started the map i found out that there were 3 separate armies and 2 of which were behind me!
i did what i thought about before i had a small group of phalanx at the bridge and then i lined up another row of phalanx behind me. during the battle the one on the other side of the bridge rushed me (as any good roman would) into a row of a spears. during the whole time i was like "hurry up and die" because the enemy forces behind me were coming in close.
suddenly the army that attacked me started to run, instead of chasing i had my troops made a mad dash to the other side of the bridge. i formed them up as quickly as i could and luckily for me i made it in time. right before the big mob of romans came at me, i unleashed my dogs and as they were driving the enemy nuts my phalanx killed all that got passed. once they started to run i unleashed my cavalry and killed a large number of romans. in the end, i lost like 200 troops to 2.4k romans. heroic victory god i wished my print screen had worked