He had a hill, and I'd be attacking up it.
The Christian knights push forward on my right
The cavalry screen mount the lower slopes
Jinettes, javelinating the knights
Purge the apostates!
More javelin based sneakiness
Al Morris, stays secure on his slope
Steady advance to the sound of double drums
They're behind us
Knights versus knights.
Scared by the Kamel Korps the Andalusian cavalry flee
Whooosh!
Then rally
Unlike the Christian mercenaries...
...pursued by jinettes
The glorious Kamel Korps!
The sayid attempts to scarper, but is hemmed in
And still the light cavalry continue harrassing
Throw, retreat, rinse, repeat
The white line ignores them
This was a splendid game. James cavalry spent most of it pursuing my fleeing sayid around the board in serch of vistory points. My Christian knights once again disgraced themselves and I ran out of turns to make a full frontal assault on the hill. However it was a close run thing and ended in a bloody stand off. So my chocolate hoard remained safe.
All in all it was a very good day out.
Huge thanks to Scrivs for organising this. Hope we can get an Age of Arthur one in early next year.
Nice to dust the Almoravids off and give WAB a day in the sun. James and I both felt WAB was showing its age a bit - it feels a little fussy in places - but it does give a good sized game in a relatively short period of time.
Though both of us wondered how we'd ever found the time to paint armies that big.