First clash I used Khazars (Royal Army) and he fielded Abbasid Arabs with rather a lot of terrain in middle of table despite my attacking in Steppe.
This was great game with lots of manouvre and could have gone either way up until couple of turns when I lost a bunch of units despite inflicting losses.
I was fairly lucky to damage and kill a couple of units of his spearmen with my medium swordsmen but my my cavalry suffered some ill luck.
Second game saw my Avars fielded against Sassanids on a more open field and again was fairly close until I had a truly disastrous turn with multiple units taking 2 hits or dying, including a General and heavy cavalry.
Second game (Blogger keeps reversing order of pics) with Avars facing Sassanids
First game with Khazars attacking Abbasids (I managed to win initiative and invade in both games)
