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Royal Thai vs Mapuche - 15mm MeG

Invited out to Geneva to play the resident Swiss national champion, Roger.  Well, actually, my whole family were invited out for a wonderful holiday by Lake Geneva, and while there I played Roger several times at his wife's official residence.   I did take my Samurai, but I decided that for this game I would modify Roger's beautiful Champa army to be Royal Thai (it was the Thai King's birthday that day, so it seamed fitting), which is why you may see some 10mm Samurai units amoungst the Thai, representing devastating charger types. Despite being a legend, I did manage to out scout and out territory the horde of Mapuche (this version had 16 TuGs). It was a nearly featureless table as most terrain disappeared off into the waterway! I took all 12 (yes 12) available superior elephants as I wanted to see what they were like, split into 3 x 2 ellies and 2x 3 for bulk. The rest of the the rest of the army was a 6 and an 8 of short spear melee expert foot, a unit of archers, a un...