Ahh, the anatomy of a loss! Mark and I met up at Leighton Buzzard Wargames club for a friendly game of MeG, using the Magna (28mm) variant. I have been rebasing my inherited Ghaznavid/Andalusian/Arabs of late (there will be future post about these), so when Mark suggested Magna I agreed and tried to build a viable list with what I've got. Mark, fresh off getting a drubbing at Campaign with his army, was looking for blood! The terrain fell as featureless, a waterway held one side, which we both anchored our camps on, and Mark got a piece of rough going. That was it. My army was based around combined arms, Mark's around a great slab of powerbows! I out scouted him by 30%, but what came out was scary for my mainly cavalry army! On the right, two units of billmen support four units of retinue archer and artillery! The rough going is held by mercenary crossbows, on the left, two more archer units, a ubit of hand gunners, dismounted men-at-arms and a unit of heavy knights. Most of ...