Umayyad Arab (131) vs Ghaznavid (193)
On to the second game against Simon’s Ghaznavid’s and their huge camp! Simon won the initiative and decided to attack me in the mountains. My deployment was as before but with the cavalry wings reversed. However, I had the benefit of being able to place my medium troops in ambush in my gully on the right.
Once again, I refused the centre with the intention, again, of envelopment around the flanks. Especially with the benefit of the forward deployed medium troops in Ambush. On the left I certainly had the benefits of numbers.
Enemy bow fire is starting to inflict pain on the left-wing cavalry; but we are around the enemy flank. While on the right the medium troops are already around the enemy flank. They important question is whether the Arab command and control would allow them to exploit this position.
Suffice to say to say not entirely. Moreover, the better Ghaznavid command dice allowed them to respond to the threat I presented better than I was able to exploit it. In the centre the infantry command is biding its time playing with the elephants.
The infantry command has fallen against the elephants not before one of them was destroyed by the infantry spears, but in doing so the elephant went rampaging over one of the Arab infantry unit’s destroying it! On the right the Arab’s have secured a minor victory and if time and losses permitted would have been decisive.
Outcome
A close fought victory for the Ghaznavid forces by destroying the Arab army and by suffering 17 out of 22 losses. Slightly better combat results may have resulted in a mutual destruction.
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