Nikephorian Byzantine versus Late Imperial Roman East

My new generals took my army to face Dave's Romans in yet another tense game Impetus.

 Deployment.

 End of the first turn and my army got in the first shot.

By the end of the second turn my army's archery appeared unstoppable.

 But turn three brought this upset.

I had almost double the dice, but could only get one hit.

In the subsequent cohesion tests Dave pulled out all the tricky tactical cards he could.

Result was a major loss to my command.

 Turn three did see a more positive outcome when some of 

my light cavalry ran down all the Roman skirmishers on their right wing.  

They died in the process however, so it was a bit of a Pyrrhic victory.

 Turn four and I had to throw in everything I had to rout this Roman unit.

I did it, but had to use all the rules in the book, plus some Tactical Cards as well.

My cavalry unit, the Byzantine Greys, took two casualties making them exhausted,

but were able to get the one hit on the Roman legion 

that was all that was needed to get an accumulated loss

and their subsequent demise.

The rout of that unit broke the Roman Army's morale,

but it was damn close thing.