Final 2: 009 Callinicum (531 AD) Phase 2
toganalper (Sassanid): 5 banners, 6 blocks lost
stormwalker(Byzantine): 1 banners, 21 blocks lost
The battle began with some distant shooting from the Sassanids right flank. Azarethes also send most of his troops to support Cabades. Then Azarethes together with his trusted heavy cavalryman and companions tried to finish the Byzantines Auxiliaries. The Aux hold up and then Arethos responded with a darken sky command Azarethes lost his own unit to distant shooting but were able to escape behind the hills. His companions also took heavy losses and retreated behind the hills to regroup. As the Byzantines tried to bundle up in the center section, the Sassanid right wing were shooting at a distance. Bellarius took with him a group of medium cavalry and attacked the foot units. The Sassanids after a succesfull rally of his heavy units, were able to finish the byzantines foot units. But Cabades even-though quite strong got trapped by the Byzantines cavalry with a Mounted charge. Luckily his unit survived from the initial medium cavalry attack and he battled back full force also adding the battle bonus (even though at the end it was not needed), he was able to finish his attacking unit, opened his was to unification with his army. This was enough for the Byzantines ( 5 banners) and they surrendered.
This was a very tense and fun final match. At the end it was 5:2 and 5:1.
Only one banner was the margin of winning the very first tournament of the Medieval era.
I would like to thank first to Richard Borg, to once again coming up with a great version of the Command Color System. Of course many thanks goes to Mark McG for arranging these great and fun Tournaments and to people like g1ul10 and others, who put great effort to the Vassal files.
