My third game at Roll Call 2024 was against Andy’s Ayyubid Egyptians: another beautifully painted army.

Neither side was particularly interested in doing anything excapt having straight at the enemy, although I did make a point of maintaining my line as much as possible.

The game quickly split into two sectors: the centre/right and left.

On the centre/right, my Knights and Lights worked together to drive back his quality cavalry and infantry. As usual, half my Knights rode straight over their opposition without difficulty and half failed to achieve anything at all…but, generally, the action in this sector went in my favour.

On the left, however, my infantry didn’t do as well as I had hoped, and soon the Ayyubid’s were threatening my camp.

The game looked in the balance at this point but, fortunately, my troops on the right were now in a position to hammer their wavering opponents. They duly did so, and the collapse of the Ayyubid left gave me a 12-6 victory before Andy did to me on my left what I had just done to him on his left.

So a loss, two wins, and one more game to go!