Gotta draw a historical battle scene for assignment. Ideas?

So I'm doing my first year of bachelor of Architecture (just started 3 weeks ago) and the teachers are helping us explore our creativity and get a little acquainted with art before we dive in to more architecture - related stuff. 
This week's assignment is that we need to draw a historical battle scene or something of the sort. As soon as I heard the topic, my head started buzzing with all sorts of RPG game related ideas. I wanted to sketch down a scene from Dragon Age ASAP. But it seems that the scene must be from either history, mythology, legends or literature. That kinda lessened the RPGness that I could put in my drawing, but it's possible nonetheless. 
 
So I'd love it if you guys could point out some legend or hero or something, in which I could create the feel of an RPG game, but it would still be realistic (I know I'm not being very clear :P).
For example, I've been thinking of something like King Arthur, or William Wallace or something of the sort. Where I could show the guy giving someone a shield bash while sliting another dude's throat with his sword hand. You know, some bad ass war scene that feels like DA:O, Oblivion, Witcher or something, where I can use my game related art knowledge while keeping the drawing inside the rules.
 
So help me dig into history and it's legends!

Battle of Hastings, perhaps? First thing that came to my head. 
 
I was just going to suggest Battle of Thermopylae but it suddenly seems like a cliche now that I think about it.

Please please please dont do anything from a videogame. People will say to do it. Don't fall into that trap
 
Does it have to be English, or anything inparticular?

Battle of Gettysburg was the first thing in mine, i dont think itd be too hard to draw either

" Battle of Gettysburg was the first thing in mine, i dont think itd be too hard to draw either "

" @eroticfishcake: I'll check those out thanks.
@Fallen189: No what I said was I'd like to do something related to video games but I CAN'T. That's why I'm looking for some epic legends in which I could add some video game flavors. "

mythology?
 
go for some norse gods, man; Thor smacking down his hammer and wiping out an army or something.

ancient japan because it had giant enemy crabs, flip em over for MASSIVE DAMAGE
sorry, old meme is old, i don't really have anything productive to add to this thread

How about Waterloo, The Battle of Vienna, The Battle of Leipz ig or the Battle of Stalingrad.

What about Custer's last stand in the battle of Little Bighorn?

It really depends on what kind of battle you want to draw? If it was the style of armour and to some extent the weapons in Dragon Age then you'll want to draw something from the late medieval period or the early early modern period. For that you'd want battles from something like The Wars of the Roses 

  Or the Italian Wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Wars

"  If it was the style of armour and to some extent the weapons in Dragon Age then you'll want to draw something from the late medieval period or the early early modern period."

battle of Reach.

Just copy this. Your teacher will be so amazed that they will have no choice but to give you an A+. The text is optional, btw. 
 

Okay, got some more if you're into mythology. There is the 12 labours of Heracles (Hercules):
 
   1. To kill the Nemean lion.
   2. To destroy the Lernaean Hydra.
   3. To capture the Ceryneian Hind.
   4. To capture the Erymanthian Boar.
   5. To clean the Augean Stables.
   6. To kill the Stymphalian Birds.
   7. To capture the Cretan Bull.
   8. To round up the Mares of Diomedes.
   9. To steal the Girdle of Hippolyte.
  10. To herd the Cattle of Geryon.
  11. To fetch the Apples of Hesperides.
  12. To capture Cerberus. 
 
I like the Cerberus one the most. Hercules, in the underworld, having to capture the Cerberus without using any weapons.
 
You could also draw Thor fighting the giant Hrungnir. Thor crushes his skull with Mjölnir. Could be quite a bloody and gory image.
The fall of Achilles maybe. Shot in the heel with a poison arrow.
Theseus killing the Minotaur in the labyrinth .
The death of king Minos maybe. Not a battle, but scalded to death in a bath. That could be a really gory mess.
Perseus' "battle" against the Gorgon Medusa. Not much of a battle, since he basically decapitated her while she was sleeping.
There's Jason and the Argonauts too. Again, not that many battles, since he took the Golden Fleece of the sleepless dragon by giving it a sleeping potion.
Cadmus defeating the Ismean Water Dragon.

That's about all I can think of right now.

How about The Charge of the Light Brigade during The Battle of Balaclava? That's what I'd do.

Battle of Cannae! Romans get utterly destroyed by Hannibal a cheeky strategy and..... ELEPHANTS!

" @armaan8014: Ooh ooh! I've got a nice one (I think so at least). Why not draw The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War? "

The siege of Halicarnassus, 334 BC.
 
Alexander the Great nearly received his one and only defeat trying to take this place. When the city walls were finally stormed, Memnon (in charge of the besieged forces) burnt it to the ground to stop it falling into Alexander's hands, pretty much nothing survived.
 
Would fit right into any Total War style of battle/scene.

Battle of Tours, Siege of Stalingrad, , siege of Tenochtitlan,  one of the many sieges of Constantinople,  any given Tuesday of Ghengis Khan's life, etc.

" @eroticfishcake said:

" @armaan8014: Ooh ooh! I've got a nice one (I think so at least). Why not draw The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War? "

Haha. I just wrote this as well. That's two for the Charge of the Light Brigade.  "

what about Thor vs. Loki i think that is as rpg as it gets

Gettysburg or if you're up to it D-Day'd be awesome. 

I'll third charge of the light brigade, i remember writing an essay about it a couple years ago.

Also try and post it when you finish.

The 7 hour war :D  (But really, that would be awesome.)
 
But really, I would go with The Battle for Britain, It was such an Iconic win during the second would war, and there is so much inspiration to be had with it. 

D-day beach WW2...always a classic

Battle of Hoth or Endor. Both major turning points in the war between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire.

Do something more obscure, such as one of the battles waged by William Wallace and the Scottish rebellion against England. I'm surprised at how any people don't quite realize that Braveheart is based (loosely) on a true story.