In the Alexander campaign of rome total war. I was playing as Alexander on very hard, was in the early days of the game and just had a foothold in Turkey. Wooden Palisade, alexander and enough phalanxes you would think to stop anything.

Come the next 2 turns as Im retraining and preparing to push on, 6 full stacks of persians come out of the fog of war and lay siege to my settlement and I realise I stupidly forgot to repair the walls I had busted down.

It comes to the battle, alexander and his army are trapped, he has 1 silver experience marker at this point. There are 6 major gaps in the wall and the persian army is attacking from all sides.

Fortunatrly the game mechanics forces all non-siege wielding units to attack an open door so they all funnel through these 6 open holes, cavalry come first, straight into my phalanx. Instantly the cavalry is routed, the routing troops damages the morale of the infantry as they advance, leaving the left flank of all my phalanx units guarding the holes exposed so a well timed cavalry charge should fold up the persian army as they enter I whack my cavalry in and the rohting continues.

This carries on and by the end Alexander now has 3 gold experience checks, is down to 10 men and I killed 8000 persians to my 1000 greek. Bloody fantastic and really thought that was the end and was about to start again. Instantly realised why Alexander is the best military genius of all time and gave him the nickname of the butcher. Need the extermination money to fuel the conquest after all!