A very difficult list to deal with - struck me as a very good choice for a 2 list competition, although maybe the Cm commands have too few troop types, which forces the list to fight with the bowmen in all matchups. A few Cv or LH in with the camels might have made it a bit more flexible - or even only taking 10 Cm instead of 12 ?

There ain't a lot you can do with Sassanids because of the minima, but I perhaps felt the Hunnic ally was simply too big (and expensive). 7 would probably do the job just as well - also it might be possible to downgrade more of the Cv to (O), as they then still are decent anti-LH troops. If you could manage to squeeze an elephant into one of the other mounted commands, and fit some Ps or Ax in too..... it'd be 500AP probably!!

E Byzantines

Lorenzo Meles championship winning list, as used by Nick Farrell. Bit light on punch for my liking, but if you can co-ordinate the commands you get a high degree of expendability amongst the combat troops for your money. The Arab ally must be a temptation though....

Huns

Relies almost totally on the charge of the Ostrogoths, but if/once they were gone the army would be  emasculated and on its knees - I felt having the main strike force in such a large command (relative to the army size) and with enough "fighting elements" (admittedly including the general) in it to beat it if they died wasn't a good thing - and so it proved, in dramatic fashion.

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