Thursday, February 23, 2023

Nikephorian Byzantine versus The Huns

In a competition game my Byzantines faced Stephen's Huns.  I was feeling confident and was not disappointed.

Outscouted, the Byzantines were blessed with some difficult terrain protecting their flanks.

The Huns advance, intent on shooting it out.

The first casualties start to appear,
but the Byzantines can out shoot their opponent.

Arrows fly everywhere

The Huns lose their first unit,
quickly followed by another one.

The charge of the Byzantine elite cavalry was a success, 

The Byzantine light cavalry try to breakthrough the Hun skirmishers,
while their own skirmishers on the opposite flank have been routed. 

The Byzantine light cavalry has been roughly handled,
that broken terrain must have been harder going than it appeared.
However the Huns are now down four units and another loss will break their morale.

With their left flank threatened, the Byzantines 
need to rout another unit of Huns in order to claim victory.

Victory, although another Byzantine unit was also lost.
Interestingly, the red and white legions had not moved during the whole game.




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