Byzantines versus Huns

[martin goddard]

There was a lot of shooting.
There were some fights.
Other stuff too.

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martin

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

Don't forget that where Attila's hordes trod no grass grew! Quite where the sources thought the Hunnic ponies got their forage I don't know...

[Moggy]

I had to look this up and found it is attributed to Attilla himself but scholars say there is no mention of this in the works of Priscus who is the main source of references to him.

Personally I would suggest this is probably badly translated from whatever source and would infer that there was nothing left to eat after the hordes had passed across that piece of land or the practise of salting the earth to deny an opponent use of the land.

Derek

[Big Mike]

The Huns won on Tuesday, even without grass.
The Byzantines were the attackers and pushed their heavy cavalry up to shoot the Huns who were on the base line. The shooting was good but resulted in so few casualties that the hoped-for morale fails and retreat form the table did not happen. After some high rolling fights the Huns pushed forward leaving the Byzantines holding just one key 8 point square ( a gentle hill).
Using flanking attackers the Huns decimated the Byzantines to win.
The Tactical Gifts were useful allowing easier movement by both mainly mounted armies.
With more practice both armies have the potential to be mobile and deadly.
Mike

[Moggy]

Even on the defensive mobile armies can cause problems. Especially those cav skirmishers that nip round the flanks move to the middle on the attackers baseline and deny all that territory. Some of the best use for the points in late game.

derek