Game 2 - Mamma Li Turchi 2014

In the second game I met a Later Hungarian army. I was quite confident that defending I could outflank and attack the enemy wings enjoying some superiority, ignoring the enemy center.

This time I was the attacker, and faced a wall of infantry and war wagons in the center of a battlefield not ideal for my army. The only sector where I could try to outflank the enemy was the right. I made a mistake in my plan, deciding to deply the CiC corps on the left, instead of massing all my mounted force on the right. I renounced to attack by night to have a good fight

Byzantine right wing immediately advanced to emerge from the gap

Realizing the deployment mistake, the CiC manouevered to reinforce the right wing

Unfortunately several turns of crisis in the byzantine pips let the Hungarian block and engage the command

Trapezuntine CiC had to deploy and accept a combat that looked immediately unfavourable

In the meantime, the right byzantine wing attacked the small hungarian szekeler corps.

The byzantine center was engaged in a deadly struggle.

After several bounds of tough combat, the Trapezuntine were not able to win the fighting, losing both the commands to the Szekeler, that were just disheartened.. 1-24 was the score.

The deployment mistake had important consequences: I could not use the CvO to attack the szekeler, and put the CiC combat in danger to be overwhelmed, as it happened. A deserved defeat. Next time more care it will be needed in the planning phase.