Well, there was this bunch of murederous Gauls laying siege to Mediolanum. It seems the whole genocide thingy I was doing with their cities kind of upset them and they got this weird idea that they could take back the city.
Well, the idea wasn't even that weird considering they brought a 20 unit army of warbands, skirmishers and swordsmen led by a great general, while I only had a few spear warbands, two barbarian cavalry and two unexperienced family members.
They built 2 rams and attacked. I sent out my cavalry to attack the rams, but it turned out that the only way to destroy a ram is with siege equipment or fire arrows and the cavalry seemed to die for nothing. Speaking of fire arrows, one of my towers hit the first ram with one and the thing burned down, so the whole cavalry charge thingy wasn't a complete waste afterall.
Meanwhile the second ram reached my walls and the Gauls started banging at them. I thought I might position a spear warband right where the Gauls would make a hole in the wall and give them a warm welcome when they try to enter. So I order my spearmen to move right next to the wall (a rather stupid thing to do in a real life situation, becasue the battered wall would colapse on them, but I hadn't thought of that at that point). To my great surprize the Gauls stoped battering the walls and moved the ram aside (you know, like when you punch a hole in the wall) despite the fact that the wall still stood. I zoomed in and discovered the source of their weird behaviour.
My speamen somehow managed to push their spears The Gallic warband not only stoped using the ram, they even started impaling themselves on the spears. I then moved my spear warband away from the wall and their spears came back with them, but the Gauls were obviously so suprized they completly forgot all about the ram so all I had to do was hit "triple speed" and wait. PS: It doesn't work for defending gates. I tried, but my spearmen refused to move completly adjacent to the gate.
Lord Dragatus, 30th member of BTOOIC, The One Who Killed the Cow.