Last night Dave T and I played a historial Mujung Hsien pi v Southern Dynasties.

Northern

Dynasties would have been more historical still, and a better match up fo rme,

but I

wanted to try the double based PkF idea. I had a command of BdF backed by PkF

DBE and

Ps, one of Bd and Ps and one of 6 Bw, with minimum horse, and fortified magic

tents plus

Art. It looked a very small army when Dave's 48 LHF went down, not to mention

the

maximum DBE Kni chained cataphracts...

Chan Wing Fat (Tsin) caught the invading Murong as they had just completed

wading a

navigable river (i.e. river fell transverse, Hsienpi on my side) and charged

rapidly to engage

the centre of chained horse before they could gain momentum. Battle was soon

joined

(my second bound). Swordsmen divd bravly beneath the armoured horses of the

barbarians, bravely hamstinging and hocking, but could do no more than force

them back.

Their counterattack did not kill (too) many - all was not yet lost. They surged

forward

once more, and this time, by fate and good kung fu kicked the Hsien-pi Khan from

his

horse. Thus it went, back and forward, until the gaps in the Hsienpi line told,

and their

living could move no longer for the dead shackled too them.

Alas, on the right flank Chan Pok Fat's swordsmen had suffered horribly at the

hands of

the nomad horse archers, who wheeled in two ranks deep and scattered the poorly

protected chinese - Pok Fat was just thinking he should have petitioned the

emperor to

assign a few crossbows when a swarm of horse archers pulled him startled from

his horse.

The quashing rebellion regiments fought on bravely after the dare to die had

done just

that, but it was only a matter of time, and all in the end fell.

On the left the crossbowmen shot magnificently, each bolt felling a howling

barbarian, but

they were too few and a multitude of archers in double column flew round the

flank and,

with the archers of the other flank (who had pursued the quashing rebellion

troops almsot

to the gates of the camp) mobbed the Chinese gentry in reserve, and all was

lost.

Fortunately the northern barbarians all foud the food excessively oily, and to

sweet, and

returned to the bleak northern plains to chew on garlic and mantou, taking with

them

Wing Fat, who composed several well known elegies to dim sum.

This was a fun game, and convincing in outcome for me. The gamble to hit the

KnI first in

m bound abd try and kill Kn before they killed me, or the wings collapsed didn't

pay off.

Bd F were very brittle against the LHF, as were PkF DBE - I'd rather like them

for Warring

states, they need the crossbow to take on mounted archers, but are not too bad

against

Kn.eachother