shirley varangian !

I was hideously hung over, (see here for evidence!) even for a wargames weekend. Getting up at 4am, and going to bed at 3 was not great preparation, even allowing for the time difference . I was not well at all ....

John my opponent was using Komnenan Byzantine - a possible WWg (X) rival perchance...? 

Naah....

This was the list - not a WWg (X) in sight ! 

Turn one and the regular mounted blades (in the picture as knights) were straight down my throat - obviously exactly what I wanted to fight with Sp (I) and Wwg (X).

I was immediately in a hard game - and I had thought choosing the correct floor in the hotel lift that morning to allow me to leave the building was already possibly the most challenging task I had ever undertaken...

Fortunately the spearmen put up a heroic fight against the blades, long enough for me to push past their flanks and also to wheel up some knights to enter the combat. 

Meanwhile, elsewhere something else was happening .... 

Well  .... I know its a bit useless but to be perfectly honest, I cannot really remember what happened in this game, due to too much beer and wine the night before and night after - even if by around 10:30 I had even started to wake up, which was a definite bonus. 

It was hard fought, my opponent did all the right things and it was only a combination of his blades being unlucky in combat and his lack of any other troops in the army suitable to support their flanks against my advancing WWg (X) that stopped me being ploughed under!!

We killed one command each, I think it was an exchange in the middle, and I do remember thinking I had tipped the game 9-1 to me in the last bound, only to find out that I had incorrectly added up the size of the 3rd Komnenan command as 15.5, and I was still a couple of element short of half the army.   5-5... and onto a great lunch in the brewery !!

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