Fluffy stared out across the almost barren plain, as the Mongol horde arrayed itself. Tumen after Tumen, horse archers streamed everywhere, and lurking behind, the guard of the Khan himself. 'This is going to be a hard day' he muttered under his breath. David from the Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club had asked for a game, and in amongst the rubble of our kitchen refit, and the tidal waves of my daughter's paddling pool, we set up in the garden in the dappled shade of apple and cherry trees for a most enjoyable afternoon's fight. David chose to defend and picked 'plains' as his territory type, which is bad news for me as I suffer in open terrain with my Samurai (especially agaisnt one of my two bet noires, horse archer armies). Thankfully, I did manage to force the terrain into 'Normal', so some terrain was on table, but the splats you see are carefully chosen 'open' terrain spaces by David. The first real surprise of the afternoon was the scoutin...