Feudal French (182) vs Zapotec (285)
For the final game I decided to revert to the Feudal French to take on the might of the Zapotecs. Hopefully the full weight of the French Nobility would be able to tramp under foot the native Zapotecian medium swordsmen. I was invited to attack in the plains, where we deployed with the foot to the right and the mounted centre and left. The enemy were clearly intending to use the terrain as bastions, the question is could I prevail with the weight of the Knights in the gaps between the terrain?
And once again my camp is threatened by an enemy advance down my right flank and all I have to defend against it is some light troops. Could it be yet another gain where I fight with the loss of my camp hanging over me?
However at this stage I have managed to extricate the light troops and brought my own medium troops around to defend the flank, in this case strongly supported by crossbow fire which has been particularly effective.
As the French Knights advance the moment will soon arrive when they have to be committed or commit themselves through their own impetuosity. On the right the foot are fighting their own battle where they are suffering the atlatls of outrageous fortune.
The French Knights continued to close to battle range and, on the right, pushed through the gap. The foot had now advanced to support them, though too late to make much difference. Besides, there is only so much one can expect from heavy spearmen in the fields!
As the sun sets in the west, the Knights on the right of the line have shown what they can do against medium swordsmen, while on the left in the gap one can see what happens when they do not immediately prevail and get jumped on from the flank!
Outcome
A Zapotec win in which they only lost 11 of their 30 available cohesion points.
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