Time for another bout of To The Strongest with friend Neil. I would field the Hittites, Neil would play the Anglo-Normans.

The game began with my ally Syrian light chariots storming up one side of the battlefield to outflank the anglo-Norman line.

They got themselves into a perfect position, but then the cards decided to punish me for some former infraction meaning that the Syrians unexpectedly halted until the moment of advantage had passed!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the table, a massive melee had broken out between the Anglo-Norman cavalry and Fyrd and the Hittite infantry and chariots.

In the last photo, below, you can also see the Syrian light cavalry attemtpign to take the Anglo-Norman camp.

The mass melee caused carnage on both sides, leading to a battlefield almost denuded of troops.

But unfortunately it was the Anglo-Normans who recovered first, sending Norman Milites crashing through a unit of Hittite chariots led by a general. With that my last victory medlas were gone, along with the game!

A great game that could have gone either way at many points during the battle.

Somewhat annoying that my light chariots hadn’t managed to get properly stuck in on the flank, and that I lost the central melee clash in a way that left my troops vulnerable in the clearing up exercise that followed, but a good lesson in how powerful Norman Milites are!

Now to fight it again with the sides swapped over…