105 Lake Antioch - 9 February 1098

Historical Background
The Crusaders had begun the siege of...

105 Lake Antioch - 9 February 1098

bit of a mismatch meeting.. Crusaders all cavalry, no bows and no Lights. Turks have just 1 leader and 1 Heavy cavalry, but are jammed into a centre position between 2 water bodies, and struggle to deploy.
Command card issues for both sides, but even with 6 Command cards, it is likely the Crusaders will have several useless (move 1 unit) cards like Foot Onslaught or Move Lights.

For the Crusaders, trying to catch the Turks is a problem, and any attack on Light cavalry faces the possibility of Parthian shots, or Feined retreat. In the end I resorted to the old move up adjacent, don't attack and with the Turks so jammed together, they couldn't untangle enough to prevent being surrounded and unable to evade/retreat the next turn. 

A real puzzle for both sides, the Turks to keep open the retreat paths, and the Crusaders to contain the Turks and press them up against the terrain/board edge.

A conundrum for both sides, this scenario. Keeping the Crusader cavalry together to get close enough to make the second turn count. The panic rule helped as well as the Crusaders punched into the non-evading troops. The double punch with Crusader medium cavalry causing hits on a Seljuq medium cavalry unit and then the knights finishing it off as it evaded. A 5-3 win to the Crusaders.

The follow-up game was not so lucky when the Seljuq light cavalry swarmed the left-most unit of knights and destroyed it and the leader - great dice throwing! As the Crusaders broke the line to try and remove these light cavalry the Parthian shooting went well and a second swarm dragged down another. The Seljuqs bided their time to pick off the victory at 5-2.