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Div B

SimonLancaster (Turkish 600-1036 AD + Arab Umayyad) challenges alexmike1 (Arab Umayyad) 685-750 AD).

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Div B

alexmike1 Arab (Umayyad) 685-750AD beat Hari72 Arab Conquest 638 -684 AD 63-48

Hard fight, especially with those vet spearmen, in which the earlier Arab army was ahead for quite some time. GG.

Div A

Garokan German 933 + Polish
challenges
Triarii Andalusian 756-1049 with Spanish 900 pw tria
frederic02 Byzantines 963-984 AD pw fred

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Good luck!

Division C

Chris Townsend decided that his Spanish 900 and Andalusian allies would meet SirMichael's German 888 in Germany, as there were too many tourists in Spain.

The German's provided a very warm welcome charging down from their hills to meet the Spanish shield wall that had been established between two woods and behind a shallow stream. Some of the German infantry broke through in the gap between the Spanish and their allies, but the German cavalry was unable to support, so, while the line disintegrated into individual melees, the damage was "contained". Light troops and bowmen from both sides disputed a marsh on the Spanish right with a narrow edge in the missile fire to the Spanish after the German support troops were distracted by Spanish cavalry emerging from the woods. This too turned into a battle of attrition, with the German flank defenders aided by their hills. A similar story developed on the Spanish left, without the marsh, with a very chaotic result making it hard to call either side the winner.

In the end, the Spanish manged to get enough of an edge in enough of the little battles to be able to take an extended stay in Germany, in order to recover from the exhausting battle.

Chris Townsend's Spanish 900 and Andalusian allies defeated SirMichael's German 888 by 64 to 50.

Div A

Rosedelio (Axumite) defeats Stones1985 (Moorish) 64-38

Despite the heavy harassment from the swarm of Moorish lights, the Axumites were eventually able to chase them down.

Div A

harveylh Bohemian Catholic 1450-1500 AD w/Hungarian allies 1441 defeats Karvon Venetian 1440-1500 AD, 43-9

A battle almost entirely between light troops and some cavalry. Knights on both sides were not a factor.

Div A

Rosedelio (Polish) defeats harveylh (Berber) 47-16

The Poles were able to protect their flanks while the infantry won in the center.

Div A

harveylh Berber (Marinid) 1244-1319 AD with Aragonese 1275 challenges carpenkm Danish 1200-13196 with Baltic Tribes, password carp, PM sent

harveylh Berber (Marinid) 1244-1319 AD with Aragonese 1275 challenges random27 byzantine 1155-1204 + crusader 1155-1291, password rand, PM sent

Div A

Karvon Parthian with Arabs drew with Morat Galatian 62-25 BC with Roman 35 - 35.

Div. B

Rob123 Hephthalite 350-570AD with Sassanid Persian 477 allies challenges

rockmanbob123 Frankish 496-599

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Div C

mcfcivo Bact Greek defeats christownsend pergamene 11 vs 40%

cheers,

Andy

Div B

alexmike1 Ancient British 60BC-80AD with Roman drew with devoncop Khazar 568-737AD 59-49

The Brits ran out of steam and couldn't catch enough of the elusive horse archers to get over the line before nightfall.

Div B

alexmike1 challenges rockmanbob

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Div A

Triarii Andalusian 756-1049 with Spanish 900
defeats
markleslie Khorasanian 821-1003 AD with Dailami
score 17-45

A lot of movement before both forces came to grips.
Masterly protection of Khorasanian elephants allowed them to avoid the Andalusian missile troops and punch a hole in the Andalusian right trampling the Andalusian General who fell off his pony early on. But then the elephants turned left away from the Andalusian centre. Meanwhile the Khorasanian impact Dailami, some with the edge taken off by missile fire, did not have good first charges and were then ground down by the mostly Andalusian veteran spears. The collapse at the end was sudden, just after the elephants wrong turn and only 3 turns from nightfall; two Andalusian units had the cheek to rally at the very death. A very tough close game and definite lessons from my opponent in moving pachyderms.

Bagatrix1805 Khurasanian 821-1003 with Dailami defeated Rob123 Indian Rajput 650-1049AD
in a gripping encounter it came down to the smallest of margins, a victory by the score of 60-59 , i had a unit Fragmented as did Rob , mine lived his didn't and that just got me to 60 .
Great game

Div A

Triarii Castille/Leon (1200-1319) with Granadine (1244-1319)
defeats
random27 byzantine 1155-1204 + crusader 1155-1291
Score 45-62

The Castillians were feeling an early advantage after injudicious pursuits by half the Crusader knights, of routed light troops, left the mercenary Crusaders exposed to flank attacks and rout. Sadly the over-excited Castillian C-in-C then died fighting some lowly bowmen dismaying almost all his surrounding troops. Unfortunately that included their flank protection which went straight to rout and the, newly disrupted, Castillian line was rolled up in the pursuit by horse archers. After that a fragmented and chaotic battle was probably only decided by the remaining Byzantine Knights pursuing for longer, having started later. So the Byzantine quality were still a couple of turns away while the remaining Castillian knights had returned from their pursuits and were finishing off raw spearmen and bowmen.

Good game and so very very close. Many thanks to random for yet another tough marginal game.

Division D

SawyerK leading the Macedonian 355-329 BC army with Greek 460-281 BC ally

defeated

countykgamer and his Macedonian 260-148 BC army with Greek 227-146 BC ally

by 48-7.

The older Macedonians won a medium-foot battle on the left flank, while refusing the pike-laden right. With the left flank turned, the younger Macedonians experienced a cascading series of failures that led to the end. The battle was much more close fought than the final score indicates.

Divn B

devoncop (Order of St John 1450-50) beat IMC (Venetian 1440-1500) 54-24

Tournament scores :

devoncop : 54+30 = 84

IMC : 24 = 24

Many thanks for the game. Closer than the score suggests.

Divn B

devoncop (Order of St John 1450-1500) challenges OmegaOm (Neopolitan 1400-492 with Florentine 1415-39) allies

Password : knights

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Div A

harveylh Bohemian Catholic 1450-1500 AD w/Hungarian allies 1441 defeats Hari72 Indian (Muslim) 1470-1500, 59-31

Thanks for the game.