Online battle #1: Byzantines vs Venice

This is my first ever TW battle; I play the Byzantines, my ally plays the english, and our enemies play Venice and Spain. I really don't care about what my noob ally was doing though, and focus mainly on the fight between the Byzantines and Venetians. I had fought several other battles I planned to upload, but I can no longer play the replays because they were made with version 1.0 of medieval, and I have since upgraded to 1.3. Here are the players and armies.

(I can no longer play the replay to see who the participants were, so the names are a bit off, but heres what I remember) This is a big money battle, so all units are heavily upgraded.

Dauntless07
1 Generals Bodyguard
4 Kataphraktoi
3 Byzantine Spearmen
4 Dismounted Latinkon
2 Varangian Guard
4 Byzantine Guard Archers

Josh
4 Knights Hospitaller
4 Armored Swordsmen
4 English Knights
3 Sherwood Archers
3 Catapults

Enemies

McCony1974
4 Chivalric Knights
4 Conquistadores
4 Dismounted Chivalric Knights
4 Dismounted Conquistadores

sharksmile
3 Broken Lances
2 Stradiots
4 Venetian Heavy Infantry
4 Dismounted Broken Lances
5 Venetian Archers

This is also the last big money battle you will see me play, as I have grown to dislike this kind of play, as spamming all the best units is the only way to go, and even that is limited by rules online. I like certain rules, but if you tweak them too much, it puts some factions at major disadvantages. I prefer to play low money, 10k-15k as this actually requires careful army selection as every unit can be effective under a skilled player. I uploaded this one because it was my first online Total War match ever, and I feel that is worth recognition.

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• Byzantines
• Venice
• Spain
• England
• Dauntless07
• first
• online
• medieval
• II
• total
• war
• battle

[Dauntless07]

@elgostine, I wanted to test the power of massed Kataphraktoi in a charge. You can see the effect at 1:46; two entire units of Heavy Infantry decimated in a few seconds. This is why the thumbnail for the video also features this moment in the battle.

[elgostine]

why no Vardariotai??

[Dauntless07]

They even brought archers, lol. IDK why they brougt no gunpowder, because if you fight an archer fight against the English, you're probably going to lose... Byzantine archers are pretty capable too.

[joeskelly123]

venice copy of england!!! :P good fight :)