ADLG Sui Chinese v Christian Nubian

Another ADLG game, this time in 15mm against Peter's Christian Nubians. Peter wanted to practice for Roll Call so I decided to use Sui Chinese, an army I have not used in a while.

Peter won the initiative and decided to defend in the desert. The terrain fell quite well for the Chinese with an impassable oasis anchoring the left flank and some brush the right. The Chinese deployed their heavy foot and supporting cavalry in the centre and left with the medium foot and a large stone thrower on the right. The Nubians had two commands of camels and impetuous swordsmen and one of light horse:

The Nubians flood forwards. The stone thrower promptly lands it's first rock on the advancing camels!:

The match up looks good here for the Chinese with the cavalry mainly facing the impetuous swordsmen and the mixed spear/bow the camels:

The Chinese advance to shoot. Unfortunately I failed to take into account the ability of lines to slide a base width before charging unless you are very close so what looked like a good match up for the Chinese was about to go badly:

On the right more rocks land on the camels:

The Nubians charge home. Due to the incompetence of the Chinese general (me!) the camels are fighting the Chinese cavalry and the impetuous swordsmen the mixed spear and bow. These are pretty bad match ups for the Chinese:

On the right one camel has been shot down and the others have taken some hits but are now in charge range:

The poor match ups result in many losses for the Chinese. They do have some overlaps though:

On the right the surviving camels go in:

Two Chinese bases go down at contact rather unluckily:

The Nubian camels and swordsmen are making holes in the Chinese line. The Chinese don't really have anything to plug the gaps:

The Chinese right flank is looking rather outnumbered. The cavalry need a quick breakthrough:

The centre continues to collapse though the left flank puts up a fight:

Things are looking grim for the right flank Chinese:

Most of the Chinese army has now collapsed and they break. The Nubians have had quite a few losses but with a 30(!) break point are nowhere near defeat as the battle ends:

Until I made the mistake of allowing Peter to slide his battle line (which I could have stopped him doing) the outcome looked good for the Chinese. Once I'd made that mistake it became inevitable the Nubians would triumph pretty much. Special praise goes to the Chinese stone thrower crew who shot down a camel and inflicted several more hits in a great display of shooting!