My ADLG practice role continued with another game against Gordon. Gordon wanted to use a Ghanaian army (I confess I didn't even realise there was a list for it) so I thought I'd use my Arab army as Berbers.
An initial search found only 2/3 of the figures needed (I'd not used them for a long time) but eventually the remaining 1/3 were discovered blinking into the light! Another issue was that many of them had been rebased for Fog-R limiting the composition slightly. after going to so much effort to find them though I thought I may as well use them.
Gordon's army had a lot of spearmen, medium swordsmen and light infantry plus a few average camels and a couple of light horse. His deployment appeared to have left a sizeable gap in the centre. My army was mainly mounted and included the 'elite' Tuareg camel riders:
The spearmen on Gordon's left were actually a Berber ally (traitorous scum!) who quickly advanced while I redeployed the cavalry facing them. Gordons camels, nervous for their medium swordsmen colleagues, moved to try to intercept the Tuaregs:
A slightly symmetrical battle in that on my left Gordon hopes to use a horde of skirmishers to hold up and weaken my line while I attempt to do the same to him on my right:
Gordon's camel riders have got themselves into trouble and been forced to charge into a very unfavourable situation:
One of the Tuaregs demolishes his opponent on contact, the others make good progress:
The Tuaregs make excellent progress, sweeping all before them:
In the centre the Berbers take advantage of the lack of opposition and push forward:
The overall position. The Tuaregs have taken a few hits but are rampaging through the Ghanaian army while the traitorous Berbers mostly watch on:
Hits are exchanged between both armies:
The Ghanaian army is crushed in a comprehensive defeat!
A rare very clear victory for me at ADLG against Gordon, for once I think I had a decent army composition, a good plan and didn't make any serious mistakes.
The win was also (some might say mainly) down to the remarkable ability of the Tuareg camel riders to demolish everything in their path, I lost count of how many enemies they accounted for in the game but it was certainly a lot!
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